Exceptional Children articles from June 2005

Exceptional Children archives from June 2005

Correction notice.(Correction Notice)
June 22, 2005... Exceptional Children, 2005, Volume 71, Issue 3, page 276, The Impact of Teacher Training on State Alternate Assessment Scores, Diane M. Browder, Meagan Karvonen, Stephanie Davis, Kathy Fallin, and Ginevra Courtade-Little. The equation on page...

Preview.(Exceptional Children educational aspects)
June 22, 2005... This issue of Exceptional Children opens with two articles that review the effectiveness of specific teaching techniques. Both articles employed meta-analysis, an approach that looks at tile average effects of treatments across studies. The...

Self-regulation interventions for children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.(Exceptional Children)
June 22, 2005... Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic disorder that is thought to affect from 3% to 7% of school-age children (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Children with ADHD typically exhibit problems maintaining attention,...

The effects of purchasing skill instruction for individuals with developmental disabilities: a meta-analysis.(Exceptional Children)
June 22, 2005... For adults with disabilities, quality of life is enhanced with improvements in life skills such as social interaction, employment, money management, community adjustment, independent living, self-determination, personal choice, recreation,...

Cultural models of transition: Latina mothers of young adults with developmental disabilities.(Exceptional Children)
June 22, 2005... Transition is an important part of the service system for students with developmental disabilities, a period during which young adults prepare for life beyond mandatory schooling (Blacher, 2001). During this time, decisions about living...

Perspectives of students with intellectual disabilities about their experiences with paraprofessional support.(Exceptional Children)
June 22, 2005... More students with a wider range of disabilities, including those with low-incidence disabilities (e.g., intellectual disabilities, autism, multiple disabilities), are receiving part or all of their instruction in the same classrooms as their...

Increasing peer interactions for students with severe disabilities via paraprofessional training.
June 22, 2005... The general education classroom has become the place where increasing numbers of students with disabilities are educated. Nationally, there are 5 1/2 million students with special needs, and slightly under half of these students in elementary...

Responding to nonresponders: an experimental field trial of identification and intervention methods.(Exceptional Children)
June 22, 2005... Reading research over the past 20 years has greatly advanced our understanding of reading problems. We know that many children who experience difficulty learning to read have phonological processing weaknesses (e.g., Liberman, Shankweiler, &...

Promoting school completion of urban secondary youth with emotional or behavioral disabilities.(Exceptional Children)
June 22, 2005... The risk of school failure and high incidence of negative post-school outcomes are critical concerns for the education of youth with emotional or behavioral disabilities (also referred to as serious emotional disturbance or emotional or...