Teaching Exceptional Children back issues from July 2006:
Using High and Low Technology to Help Our Students
Jul 01, 2006; ... As educators become more comfortable with the use of technology in schools and the as the availability of technology increases, we see substantial effort to develop and use these tools for the benefit of students with exceptional needs. Assistive technology has, of course, had the biggest impact ...
Using Assistive Technology to Foster Speech and Language Skills at Home and in Preschool
Jul 01, 2006; ... Many young children have speech or language disorders or delays that require the coordinated services of a preschool intervention team. Young children with delayed talking skills benefit when their parents and their preschool teachers collaborate to include assistive technology in home and ...
I Can Search for Jobs on the Internet! A Web Site That Helps Youth in Transition Identify Preferred Employment
Jul 01, 2006; ... The question: What careers are you considering? The answers: * "Hmm. I don't know," muttered Jared, a high school student in a transition class. "Whatever, I guess. I just want to get out of school." Although Jared had almost completed high school, he had not taken advantage of ...
Legal Rights: The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Council for Exceptional Children is pleased to partner with the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCREST) to periodically include in TEACHING Exceptional Children topical briefs to support your efforts in addressing the learning needs of exceptional students ...
Nutrition and Fitness Curriculum: Designing Instructional Interventions for Children With Developmental Disabilities
Jul 01, 2006; ... Carrie is a fifth grader with moderate Down Syndrome. Carrie works hard for her teachers in both general and special education, clearly eager to please the adults around her. Socially, she smiles a lot and seeks to fit in with classmates. Still, at 4'10" her weight exceeds 220 pounds. Carrie is ...
First-Year Early Childhood Special Education Teachers and Their Assistants: "Teaching Along With Her"
Jul 01, 2006; ... Cathy, Kelly, and Lisa are early childhood special education (ECSE) teachers in inclusive, classroom-based programs. Each of them worked with assistant teachers during their first year as ECSE teachers, and that experience resulted in difficulties of varying degrees. For Cathy, those ...
Including Students With Disabilities in a Foreign Language Class
Jul 01, 2006; ... "How am I going to teach these students a second language when they have so many difficulties with their first language?" Is that your first thought when you see that your new class roster includes students with disabilities? Student diversity and inclusion presents a unique set of ...
Making Informed Assistive Technology Decisions for Students With High Incidence Disabilities
Jul 01, 2006; ... Special education teachers and individualized education program (IEP) team members throughout the country are struggling to make appropriate decisions regarding assistive technology (AT) for students with high incidence disabilities. Although numerous authors and organizations have developed ...
State of the Journals
Jul 01, 2006; ... This is our fifth annual "State of the Journal" message as coeditors of TEACHING Exceptional Children (TEC), and our second to include TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus (TECPlus), the online extension of TEC. We are pleased to have this annual opportunity to share our vision for the journals as ...
Integrated Content Enhancement Routines: Responding to the Needs of Adolescents With Disabilities in Rigorous Inclusive Secondary Content Classes
Jul 01, 2006; ... This article reports on research conducted by the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning and the University of Oregon, on ways to improve educational outcomes for adolescents with disabilities. It is part of a larger effort described in Schumaker, Deshler et al., (2002/2005) and ...
Learning Through Seeing and Doing: Visual Supports for Children With Autism
Jul 01, 2006; ... Autism is a life-long, complex developmental disorder that causes impairment in the way individuals process information. Autism belongs to heterogeneous categories of developmental disabilities where neurological disorders lead to deficits in a child's ability to communicate, understand ...