Recently added articles from Focus on Exceptional Children:
Science and social studies for students with disabilities.(Report)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Science and social studies have much to offer to all learners--including those with disabilities. However, instruction in these subjects has often been overlooked in the quest to better understand and improve leaning in English/language arts and mathematics. As we demonstrate in this ...
Positive behavior supports in exclusionary schools: a practical approach based on what we know.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... Policy makers, community members, parents, and school administrators all recognize that the safety of our public schools is of the utmost importance (Barnoski, 2001; Snell, 2005). Highly publicized incidents of shootings at our nation's schools have raised public awareness of the need for ...
The promise of liberal learning: creating a challenging postsecondary curriculum for youth with intellectual disabilities.
May 01, 2008; ... Five years ago, a small group of higher education faculty at The College of New Jersey asked the question, "What would it look like if we created a postsecondary program for young adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) on the campus of a highly competitive four-year college?" ...
Accessing the general education math curriculum for secondary students with high-incidence disabilities.
Apr 01, 2008; ... Both international and national assessments indicate that secondary students in the United States experience difficulty in learning mathematics and score below many of their international counterparts. In particular, data from two international educational assessments, the Trends in ...
Children and youth with autism spectrum disorders: The search for effective methods.(Report)
Mar 01, 2008; ... The current attention to children and youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is no less than astonishing. Media coverage of ASD clearly illustrates that the increasing and interminably enigmatic conditions of autism and ASD hold strong interest for the general public in addition to the ...
Educating Children and Youth with Autism--Second Edition; strategies for effective practice.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008 ... Autism spectrum disorders span a wide range of complex characteristics, developmental disabilities, behaviors, and functioning levels, from mild to severe. This diverse range contributes to the difficulty in designing effective educational and treatment programs, as each ...
Preschool Education Programs for Children with Autism--third edition.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008 ... Since the first two editions of Preschool Education Programs (1994, 2001), more exciting advances, particularly Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), have arisen to benefit the special education of youngsters in school. Contributing to this 12-chapter edition are 10 scholar programs (Alpine ...
Language and autism: applied behavior analysis, evidence, and practice.(new books)(Brief article)(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008 ... This book is intended to provide clear guidance to practitioners in a concise format. The proposed volume is an edited work consisting of 12 chapters. Each of the chapters includes a final section on practitioner recommendations. The first two chapters include behavioral theory of language ...
Implications of Mixed Reality and simulation technologies on special education and teacher preparation.(Report)
Feb 01, 2008; ... As technology evolves, so does its impact on our lives. These changes clearly affect our daily activities, but how might they also impact education, teachers, and the lives of students with disabilities? This article focuses on technological innovations and their potential implications for ...
A legal roadmap of SBR, PRR, and related terms under the IDEA.(scientifically based research;peer-reviewed research; Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The literature of special education generally and special education law specifically tends to use "scientifically based research" (SBR), along with its shorthand "scientifically based" variation, and related terms such as "evidence-based," "research-based," and "peer-reviewed research" ...
Shared reading for older emergent readers in bilingual classrooms.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Historically, and continuing to the present, children in the primary grades receive the lion's share of attention and resources in learning to read. This makes sense: Young, early readers have a head start in achieving well not only in literacy skills but in school in general. However, as ...
Collaborative teaming in the secondary school.
Dec 01, 2007; ... Team or group approaches have long been a valued part of the special service professions and have become increasingly popular structures for addressing highly diverse issues in schools. The term collaborative teaming seems to embody this concept of working together. Knackendoffel, ...
Sociocultural scaffolding as a means toward academic self-regulation: paraeducators as cultural brokers.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... One of the major developments in both general and special education has been the "cognitive revolution" and its impact on instructional practice. While perceptual-motor training and related "ability training" models predominated in earlier speacial education interventions (Meyers & ...
Parent-teacher conferences.
Oct 01, 2007; ... During the formative years, a child's parents and teachers are the most significant adults in the child's life. Separately and together they provide the care and support, opportunities to learn, and skills the child needs to become a successful, productive adult (Benard, 1991). With the ...
Reflections on the 25th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Board of Education v. Rowley.(Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975)
May 01, 2007; ... June 22, 2007, was the 25th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley (1) (hereafter Rowley; 1982). In Rowley, the Supreme Court interpreted congressional intent in requiring that public schools provide a ...
Self-advocacy instruction: bridging the research-to-practice gap.
Apr 01, 2007; ... Special education literature abounds with a challenge to special educators to promote the acquisition of self-determination skills in their students (e.g., Algozzine, Browder, Karvonen, Test, & Wood, 2001). A critical component of self-determination that can be readily addressed in the ...
Taking an aesthetic stance toward teaching and assessment.
Mar 01, 2007; ... Almost every first grade has at least one Peter, one youngster with thick glasses halfway down his nose who comes to school wearing shoes without socks. He is a likeable guy, but he's always a little lost. His pencil is broken and chewed so that it barely writes, and he can't find his book ...
Framing the progress of collaborative teacher education.(Report)
Feb 01, 2007; ... Each of the 10 postulates in this article describes what we believe to be true about collaboration in special education. Each program description offers an important example of serious advancement toward collaborative programs in teacher education. Within this collective movement some ...
Students with disabilities in charter schools: what we now know.
Jan 01, 2007; ... School choice is a key feature of the educational reforms that have evolved over the past two decades. It is one of the "market reforms" that were introduced in the late 1980s as part of a broader effort to improve educational outcomes and productivity. School choice can take several ...
Postsecondary settings and transition services for students with intellectual disabilities: models and research.
Dec 01, 2006; ... Postsecondary high school students for college and employment that leads to adult self-sufficiency is a daunting task for educators (Lerner & Brand, 2006; Spence, 2007). This task becomes more complicated as technology changes rapidly, as policy makers mandate standards that all students ...