Exceptional Children articles from January 1998

Exceptional Children archives from January 1998

Initiating and fading self-management interventions to increase math fluency in general education classes.
January 1, 1998... Numerous investigators have demonstrated that students can learn to use BSM components, such as self-monitoring, self-determination of reinforcement, self-administration of reinforcement, self-instruction, self-evaluation, and self-graphing to...

Citizenship in the literate community: an ethnography of children with Down syndrome and the written word.
January 1, 1998... In school, children with Down syndrome have traditionally been separated from literacy opportunities and expectations (Buckley, 1995). Two premises serve as the basis for this partial or complete separation of child from printed language: (1)...

Whose job is it anyway? Educational roles in inclusion.
January 1, 1998... As school personnel begin to implement inclusion models, collaboration among teachers, parents, and other school professionals has been recognized as a critical feature for success (Graden & Bauer, 1992; Hanson & Widerstrom, 1993; Pugach,...

Identifying Hispanic students of outstanding talent: psychometric integrity of a peer nomination form.
January 1, 1998... In 1986, 30% of the student population attending public schools was composed of minority students--Native Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, and African Americans--while minority students totaled only 18% of identified gifted students...

Broken promises: reading instruction in the resource room.
January 1, 1998... Educational reform has been the agenda of politicians and policymakers for over a decade (Fullan, 1992; Peterson, McCarthey, & Elmore, 1996). Reform has not been limited to general education. Perhaps the most significant reform in special...

Disability portrayal in film: reflecting the past, directing the future.
January 1, 1998... Wow, I didn't know that people in wheelchairs can get it on like that! (Adolescent viewer reacting to the sexuality of a veteran with a spinal cord injury in the film Coming Home [1978].) I never thought about it before,...

Academic achievement effects of an in-class service model on students with and without disabilities.
January 1, 1998... For the past 2 decades, the resource classroom has been the main type of service for special education students in both the United States and Canada (Friend & McNutt, 1986; ministere de l'Education du Quebec, 1994; Slavin, 1989). However,...

School choice policies and practices for children with disabilities.
January 1, 1998... Many educational policies have been passed, proposed, reviewed, and evaluated since an alarming critique of the American educational system was issued in A Nation at Risk (National Commission on Excellence, 1983). For nearly 10 years, school...

Parent perceptions of inclusive practices for their children with significant cognitive disabilities.
January 1, 1998... Inclusive education programs for students with identified disabilities have become increasingly prevalent over the last several years (Katsiyannis, Conderman, & Franks, 1995; Sawyer, McLaughlin, & Winglee, 1994). This trend may be due in part...