Exceptional Children articles from June 1997

Exceptional Children archives from June 1997

20/20 analysis: estimating school effectiveness in serving students at the margins.
June 22, 1997... Over the past 2 decades, under the press of federal law, the United States has achieved virtual universal school enrollment of children, for at least an initial period. Special educators have provided much of the energy for the last hard push...

Ensuring appropriate education: emerging remedies, litigation, compensation, and other legal considerations.
June 22, 1997... The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides procedural and substantive educational rights to ensure a free appropriate public education (FAPE) to qualified people with disabilities. IDEA imposes strict procedural...

Case studies of high-ability students with learning disabilities who have achieved.
June 22, 1997... Little research has been conducted on gifted students with learning disabilities, although Davis and Rimm (1985) estimated that there are somewhere between 120,000 and 100,000 gifted students with disabilities in American schools. Prater and...

Effects of instructional variables on engaged behavior of students with disabilities in general education classrooms.
June 22, 1997... Teaching students with moderate, severe, or profound disabilities in general education classrooms is becoming more common. The general education classroom presents a complex environment for instructional planning for these students for two...

Teaching leisure skills to adolescents with moderate disabilities.
June 22, 1997... The effective use of nondisabled peers in the instruction of students with disabilities can promote efficient instruction, generalization of skills across persons, and integration between individuals with and without disabilities that may lead...

Bridging the research-to-practice gap.
June 22, 1997... A key goal of research in the social and behavioral sciences is the improvement of practice. Basic research is designed to add to an extant knowledge base by formulating, expanding, or evaluating a theory. Basic research is valued because it...

Response to Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap. (Learning Disabilities Association of America)
June 22, 1997... The importance of quality educational research and the subsequent utilization of that research to improve the education of students with learning disabilities has long been recognized by the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA)....

Response to Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap. (American Federation of Teachers)
June 22, 1997... Doug Carnine's position of Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap is both classic and timely. It is classic because the skepticism that separates researchers and practitioners has long been on the conscience of the "best minds" in education....

Response to Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap. (National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Inc.)
June 22, 1997... To What Extent and in What Ways Might Special Education Directors Support the Implementation of the Guidelines Suggested in the Article for Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap? Special education directors might support the implementation of...

Response to Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap. (federal legislative support)
June 22, 1997... To What Extent and in What Ways Might Federal Legislation Support the Implementation of the Guidelines Suggested in the Article for Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap? The Senate's proposed reauthorization of the Individuals with...

Response to Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap. (business support)
June 22, 1997... To What Extent and in What Ways Might Business Support the Implementation of the Guidelines Suggested in the Article for Bridging the Research-to-Practice Gap? There are four roles business can play to help close the research-to-practice gap:...

A bridge between research and practice: building consensus.
June 22, 1997... Carmine presented a cogent and important analysis of a problem thee has long plagued not just special education but other areas as well. Areas closely related to special education, such as school psychology (Wits, 1987) and behavior analysis...

School-based wraparound for students with emotional and behavioral challenges.
June 22, 1997... Meeting the complex and multifaceted needs of students with emotional and behavioral disabilities (EBD) has been an elusive goal. Historically, educational programs for this student population have not been associated with generally positive...

Efficiency in visual scanning by children with and without visual disabilities.
June 22, 1997... Writing and pictures are used to store and transmit knowledge over time and distance. How this information is then accessed from the stored form has been the subject of detailed psychophysical investigations that have observed behavior as...