Exceptional Children articles from January 2007

Exceptional Children archives from January 2007

How variable are interstate prevalence rates of learning disabilities and other special education categories? A longitudinal comparison.
January 1, 2007... There has been chronic and widespread dissatisfaction with procedures used to identify students as learning disabled. Critics have especially questioned the use of ability-achievement discrepancy as a criterion for eligibility for special...

Constraints in the production of written text in children with specific language impairments.
January 1, 2007... Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are a vulnerable population. Practitioners, policy makers and researchers use a range of different terms to describe this population (see Lindsay, Dockrell, Mackie & Letchford, 2002). Moreover, a...

Is there a bidirectional relationship between children's reading skills and reading motivation?
January 1, 2007... Children who read frequently grow to become skillful readers (e.g., Guthrie, Schafer, & Huang, 2001; Juel, 1988; Senechal & LeFevre, 2002; Stanovich, 1986). Frequent reading contributes to growth in sight word recognition, vocabulary, verbal...

Scaling early reading alternate assessments with statewide measures.
January 1, 2007... Development of alternate assessments took a sharp turn in direction with the new regulations that announced the possibility of states having alternate achievement standards (U.S. Department of Education, 2003). With that announcement came...

Effectiveness of a highly rated science curriculum unit for students with disabilities in general education classrooms.
January 1, 2007... Scaling Up Curriculum for Achievement, Learning, and Equity Project (SCALE-uP) is a collaborative research endeavor between researchers at the George Washington University and Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), Maryland. SCALE-uP is...

Alternative route programs for certification in special education: program infrastructure instructional delivery, and participant characteristics.
January 1, 2007... The need for high-quality teachers--particularly in such high-demand areas as mathematics, science, and special education--has been a major impetus for the emergence and growth of alternative routes to certification (AR). Indeed, the U.S....

Elementary and Middle Schools Technical Assistance Center: an approach to support the effective implementation of scientifically based practices in special education.
January 1, 2007... The U.S. government has supported the professional development of educators of children with disabilities for almost 50 years (see Martin, 1968). In the late 1960s the federal Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (BEH) began making what were...