Exceptional Children articles from February 1993

Exceptional Children archives from February 1993

20/20 Analysis: taking a close look at the margins.
February 1, 1993... Prevailing practices in establishing eligibility of students for special education and related services involve a two-step process. First, it must be determined that the student has a disability. Students are classified according to an array of...

Teaching preschool children with disabilities to respond to the lures of strangers.
February 1, 1993... Ensuring children's safety is a concern and priority for both parents and educators. To ensure safety, children must engage in safe practices, recognize unsafe situations, and respond quickly to dangerous situations. Few studies teaching safety...

Two approaches to reading instruction with children with disabilities: does program design make a difference?
February 1, 1993... Practices and philosophies about beginning reading instruction vary, but research strongly supports an early emphasis on letter-sound correspondences especially for children at risk for reading failure (Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkinson,...

History strategy instruction: problem-solution-effect analysis, timeline, and vocabulary instruction.
February 1, 1993... Ironically, while Eastern Europe is looking to the United States as a model democratic government, reports indicate that America's young people lack the requirements of an involved electorate--knowledge of history and democracy (Ravitch & Finn,...

Transition from school to adulthood: case studies of adults with learning disabilities who dropped out of school.
February 1, 1993... INTRODUCTION Recently, renewed public attention has been focused on the school dropout rate among U.S. youth. Conflicting reports on the attrition rate may confound the debate; however, few deny that dropping out is a leading indicator of...

Who becomes an "at-risk" student? The predictive value of a kindergarten screening battery.
February 1, 1993... In recent years, a major thrust in conceptualizing special education services has shifted from a direct-services approach to a prereferral-consultation model (Carter & Sugai, 1989; Graden, Casey, & Christenson, 1985). This model has multiple...

"I've counted Jon": transformational experiences of teachers educating students with disabilities.
February 1, 1993... At the beginning of the year, if I was making copies of something I might forget to count Jon: I just didn't deal with him... . When I count the kids in my class now, I've counted Jon. It just took me a while. These were the words of a...