Exceptional Children articles from March 1994

Exceptional Children archives from March 1994

The relationship between instructional variables and problem behavior: a review.
March 1, 1994... * Recent research has focused on nonaversive, or positive, means to reduce problem behaviors of people with severe disabilities (e.g., Repp & Singh, 1990). hi some cases, these discussions have centered on moral or ethical issues (Biklen,...

Transition: life-span and life-space considerations for empowerment.
March 1, 1994... * Many leaders in special education and rehabilitation have compared the transition efforts of today with those of past years (see, e.g., Danek & McCrone, 1989; Halpern, 1992; Szymanski, 1984; Szymanski, Hanley-Maxwell, & Asselin, 1992). Having...

Testing a model of special educators' intent to stay in teaching.
March 1, 1994... * The need to understand what influences special education teachers' commitment and retention is important in this era of teacher shortages. According to the Fifteenth Annual Report to Congress (U.S. Department of Education, 1993), a total of...

An ethnic comparison of parent participation and information needs in early intervention.
March 1, 1994... * Family-centered early intervention programs have become the "best practice" model for service delivery to young children with special needs and their families in the '90s (Bailey, 1987; Bailey, Buysse, Edmondson, & Smith, 1992; Shelton,...

Teaching as transaction: Vygotskian perspectives on deafness and mother-child interaction.
March 1, 1994... * During the past decade, a small but growing body of research has consistently pointed out the parallels in social and linguistic interaction between deaf mother-deaf child and hearing mother-hearing child dyads. The dimensions of similarity...

Promoting relational thinking: elaborative interrogation for students with mild disabilities.
March 1, 1994... * Contemporary practice in special education has tended to emphasize direct teaching of important skills and content (e.g., Bos & Vaughn, 1988; Carnine & Silbert, 1979; Mastropieri & Scruggs, 1987). Distinguished from "indirect" teaching,...

The negative effects of positive reinforcement in teaching children with developmental delay.
March 1, 1994... * Observational learning has been credited with a major role in cognitive development and in academic skills learning by a wide range of researchers and theorists (e.g., Bandura, 1977; Bereiter, 1985; Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1985; Palincsar &...

Facilitating student participation in individualized education programs through motivation strategy instruction.
March 1, 1994... * The participation of parents and students in the development of an individualized education program (IEP) is generally thought to be a valuable practice when planning services or programs for students with disabilities. Commitment to this...