Exceptional Children articles from January 2001

Exceptional Children archives from January 2001

Asperger Syndrome: The Emerging Challenge to Special Education.
January 1, 2001... "The child with low-functioning autism lives in a world of their own, but the child with Asperger Syndrome lives in our world but in their own way" (Van Krevelen, cited in Williams [1995], p. 9) Children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) have...

Caseload in Special Education: An Integration of Research Findings.
January 1, 2001... Optimal class size in general education has been studied extensively in past decades, prompting analysis of the issue from many perspectives and acclamation of small classes as a panacea for a myriad of school problems (Goldstein & Blatchford,...

Rewarded by Punishment: Reflections on the Disuse of Positive Reinforcement in Schools.
January 1, 2001... Perhaps no other discipline has received as much criticism from various factions of society as has public education. This statement should come as no surprise because public education has always been a convenient political whipping post for...

Will the Courts Go Bi-Bi? IDEA 1997, the Courts, and Deaf Education.(bilingual-bicultural education, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
January 1, 2001... An innovative instructional philosophy in the field of deaf education--bilingual-bicultural (bi-bi) education--may bring a new question before the courts. This fairly new and often controversial educational approach in the field of deaf...

Fourth-Grade Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Students' Concepts of Number Line.
January 1, 2001... Prior research has indicated that CLD students with disabilities demonstrate less than adequate academic progress in content areas, as well as experiencing general language difficulties (Smith, 1995). In the area of mathematics, performance...

Preliminary Findings on Personalized Grading Plans for Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities.
January 1, 2001... Outcome research for students with learning disabilities included in general education classes has produced differing and sometimes conflicting results. To date, studies have reported that inclusion is beneficial to students with disabilities...

Moving Beyond a Deficit Perspective with Qualitative Research Methods.
January 1, 2001... The past decade has seen far-reaching changes throughout the educational research community. Among these changes has been the increasing acceptance of new research paradigms, methods, and genres for the presentation of data. To spotlight only...

A Statewide Review of the Use of Accommodations in Large-Scale, High-Stakes Assessments.
January 1, 2001... The standards-based reform movement that is currently in place in nearly every state has placed an increased emphasis on the inclusion of all students. Together with the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),...

Multicultural Aspects of Parent Involvement in Transition Planning.
January 1, 2001... The United States continues to grow increasingly diverse and by the year 2050, the U.S. Bureau of the Census projects that culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) groups will represent a numerical majority (Sue, Bingham, Porche-Burke, &...