Exceptional Children articles from March 2000

Exceptional Children archives from March 2000

Reflections on a Research Career: Research as Detective Work.
March 22, 2000... I was sure I would be a ballet dancer, or at least a star of musical theater. I loved to dance and always had, from the time I could walk I studied very seriously, long hours, many days each week I loved the discipline, the control, the...

Reading Instruction in the Resource Room: Set Up for Failure.
March 22, 2000... The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) states that students with disabilities will be provided "specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parents, to meet the unique needs of a child with a disability" (20 USC 1401.25 et...

The Supreme Court and School Health Services: Cedar Rapids v. Garret F.
March 22, 2000... On March 3, 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret F. (hereafter Garret F.). The decision was met with attention from the media, acclaim from advocacy groups, and trepidation from...

Children Who Are Hearing Impaired with Additional Disabilities and Related Aspects of Parental Stress.
March 22, 2000... This article discusses the results and implications of a major survey performed at the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany (Hintermair & Horsch, 1998), on the stress experienced by parents of children who are hearing impaired....

School Discipline at a Crossroads: From Zero Tolerance to Early Response.
March 22, 2000... The shocking and tragic violence that has played out in our nation's schools in the last 2 years has elevated the status of school discipline from an issue of perennial concern to one of national urgency. No longer can small rural districts...

Creating Responsive Schools: Contextualizing Early Warning, Timely Response.
March 22, 2000... Most schools are safe. Although fewer than one percent of all violent deaths of children occur on school grounds--indeed a child is far more likely to be killed in the community or at home--no school is immune (from Early Warning, Timely...

Early Identification and Intervention for Youth with Antisocial and Violent Behavior.
March 22, 2000... Antisocial behavior, youth violence, and student safety have emerged as primary concerns in American schools and the larger society. An understanding of the complex, interconnecting issues and variables affecting and underlying these concerns...

The Disproportionate Discipline of African American Learners: Reducing School Suspensions and Expulsions.
March 22, 2000... In recent years, school disciplinary practices have come under increasing scrutiny (Riak, 1985; Rose, 1988). Exclusionary discipline measures, in particular, have given rise to concern and litigation on behalf of students with disabilities...

Role of Cognition and Affect in a Functional Behavioral Analysis.
March 22, 2000... When the crafters of the reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) set out discipline procedures to be followed with students with disabilities, it appears they had in mind the students with emotional and behavioral...

Behavioral and Discipline Provisions of IDEA '97: Implicit Competencies Yet to Be Confirmed.
March 22, 2000... The signing of the amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) on June 4, 1997, appeared to resolve major disagreements regarding how behaviors of students with disabilities would be dealt with, and the means by which...