Exceptional Children articles from December 1994

Exceptional Children archives from December 1994

The need for technological advances in assessment related to national educational reform.
December 1, 1994... It is somewhat daunting, during a time of educational reform and government reinvention, to make predictions about the future of assessments in special education. Nevertheless, current reconstructive activity - in general education, in special...

Juvenile delinquency, education, and mental disability.
December 1, 1994... The association of learning disabilities, mental retardation, and other mental disabilities with delinquency has been under discussion since the 19th century (Hollin, 1989), with no common agreement regarding the interaction among these traits...

Use of instructional time in classrooms serving students with and without severe disabilities.
December 1, 1994... How children spend their time in classrooms has been a long-standing concern of educators. Research in general education reveals that timerelated instructional variables (e.g., time allocated for instruction and learner engagement) are...

Variables affecting the reintegration rate of students with serious emotional disturbance.
December 1, 1994... Although the goal of special education programs is to help students function in the least restrictive environment, the complex behavioral, social, emotional, and academic problems of students with serious emotional disturbance often make the...

Parent attitudes about special education and reintegration: what is the role of student outcomes?
December 1, 1994... Parents are meant to play an important role as advocates for their children in the special education process. As Turnbull and Turnbull (1986) pointed out, in enacting the original Education of the Handicapped Act, Congress intended that parents...

An analysis by gender of long-term postschool outcomes for youth with and without disabilities.
December 1, 1994... In the past decade, investigators conducting follow-up studies of youth served by special education have reported differential postschool outcomes by gender. In a series of studies conducted by Hasazi and colleagues in Vermont (Hasazi, Gordon,...

On rhetoric: a response to Fuchs and Fuchs. (response to Douglas and Lynn S. Fuchs, Exceptional Children, vol. 60, February 1994)(Point/Counterpoint)
December 1, 1994... The article by Fuchs and Fuchs on the "inclusive schools movement" published in the February 1994 issue of Exceptional Children was neither fair nor scholarly. It attacked the proponents of inclusive education, rather than debating the issue....

Counterpoint: special education - ineffective? Immoral? (response to Steven J. Taylor in this issue, p. 301)(Point/Counterpoint)
December 1, 1994... Full inclusionists appear to be using the old left-jab-right-hook combination to bring special education to the canvas. Their jab is the charge that special education isn't effective; their hook is the assertion that separate programming is...