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Article: Inclusive elementary programs: must they cure students with learning disabilities to be effective?
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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Mr. McLeskey and Ms. Waldron take exception to the conclusions reached by Naomi Zigmond and her coauthors in a March 1995 Kappan article on the effectiveness of model elementary school programs for the inclusion of students with learning disabilities.
Recently the Kappan published an article titled "Special Education in Restructured Schools," by Naomi Zigmond, Joseph Jenkins, Lynn Fuchs, Stanley Deno, Douglas Fuchs, Janice Baker, Linda Jenkins, and Martha Couthino. The authors addressed the effectiveness of model inclusive elementary school programs for students with learning disabilities. They reported the results of three major, federally funded research and ...