Exceptional Children articles from May 1992

Exceptional Children archives from May 1992

Legal standards for an appropriate education in the post-Rowley era. (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
May 1, 1992... * The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), originally titled the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHCA), guarantees all students with disabilities a free appropriate public education. Almost immediately after its...

Generalization of social skills through self-monitoring by adults with mild mental retardation.
May 1, 1992... * Considering current emphasis on normalization, community integration, and vocational education, social skills training for adults with mental retardation is essential (Greenspan & Shoultz, 1981). Karan and Shalock (1983) have identified...

The effects of summarization instructions on text comprehension of students with learning disabilities.
May 1, 1992... * Reading is the most frequently mentioned academic subject in which students with learning disabilities experience failure (Lindsey & Kerlin, 1979). Although their problems in reading are generally attributed to poor decoding skills (McCormick...

Relationship between measures of adaptive functioning and community adjustment for adults with mental retardation.
May 1, 1992... * The construct of adaptive functioning is relatively old; its contemporary roots can be found in the early social competency research and definitions of mental retardation (Doll, 1934, 1953; Kanner 1964; Scheerenberger, 1983). During the past...

Teacher interactions in mainstream social studies and science classes.
May 1, 1992... * In response to continuing critiques regarding the efficacy of separate instruction for students with mild academic problems (Dunn, 1968; Reynolds, Wang, & Walberg, 1987), there has been increasing interest in assessing whether the general...

CEC's standards for professional practice in advocacy: members' attitudes and activities. (Council for Exceptional Children)
May 1, 1992... * In 1983, the Delegate Assembly of The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) adopted a Code of Ethics and Standards for Professional Practice. The purpose of the code of ethics and the standards was to "provide guidelines for professional...

Grade retention rates among students with learning disabilities.
May 1, 1992... * A 1986 Gallup Poll of attitudes toward the public schools (Gallup, 1986) revealed that 72% of those queried felt that standards for promotion from one grade level to the next should be more strict than they are at present. Among the public,...

Specialized instruction within general education: a case study of one elementary school.
May 1, 1992... * Today the majority of students with mild disabilities and others who are at risk for school failure are served in programs that combine classroom and pullout services where they receive instruction both from classroom teachers and specialists...