Exceptional Children articles from January 2004

Exceptional Children archives from January 2004

Finding effective intervention and personnel preparation practices for students with autism spectrum disorders.
January 1, 2004... My path into our profession was circuitous in comparison to the trajectory of many of my colleagues who knew that they wanted to be special educators early in their careers or life. Indeed, as a high school and college student, I not only had...

Parent reading behaviors and communication outcomes in girls with Rett syndrome.
January 1, 2004... Rett syndrome (RS) is a pervasive developmental disability that is found almost exclusively in girls (one out of every 10,000 to 15,000) and is marked by a gradual deterioration of hand use and language loss (American Psychiatric Association,...

Dimensions of family and professional partnerships: constructive guidelines for collaboration.
January 1, 2004... For several decades, family and professional collaborative partnering has been considered a recommended practice in effective service provision for children with disabilities. Many authors identify the importance of family and professional...

Disproportionate representation of minority students in special education academic, demographic, and economic predictors.
January 1, 2004... Prior research has established the statistical significance of several predictors of disproportionate representation of children from certain minority groups in special education programs for students with mental retardation and emotional...

Practical knowledge storage among preservice, novice, and experienced educators of students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing.
January 1, 2004... A major concern among educators of teachers of students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing is how teachers change as they move from apprenticed to experienced. Limited research has been conducted in this area of study and field of teaching. In...

Priority issues reflected in general and special education association journals.
January 1, 2004... The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) at the U.S. Department of Education recently conducted a national study with consumer panels to examine issues related to curriculum access (OSEP, 2001). "Greater participation and success in the...

Evaluating stress levels of parents of children with disabilities.
January 1, 2004... Accumulating evidence suggests that parents of children with developmental disabilities often experience deleteriously high levels of stress (Bradley, Rock, Whiteside, Caldwell, & Brisby, 1991; Dumas, Wolf, Fisman, & Culligan, 1991; Hendriks,...