Exceptional Children articles from May 1993

Exceptional Children archives from May 1993

Quality of life as a conceptual framework for evaluating transition outcomes.
May 1, 1993... The transition from adolescence into adulthood can be a difficult time for any young person, with or without a disability. We are all aware of the possibilities. Some may move on to postsecondary education. Some will begin their vocational...

Quality of life as context for planning and evaluation of services for people with disabilities.
May 1, 1993... Every person is like all other persons, like some persons and like no other persons. (Speight, Myers, Cox, & Highlen, 1991, p. 32) In the past decade, quality of life has emerged as an important theme in planning and evaluating services for...

Analysis of science textbook recommendations provided for students with disabilities.
May 1, 1993... Today, schools are increasingly educating students with disabilities in general education classrooms, and more and more students are finding themselves mainstreamed (Hallahan & Kauffman, 1988). Simultaneously, educators are being urged to...

Teaching phonological awareness to young children with learning disabilities.
May 1, 1993... Stanovich (1991) called the "specification of the role of phonological processing in the earliest stages of reading acquisition . . . one of the more notable scientific success stories of the last decade" (p. 78). Phonological skills involve...

Categorical and programming changes in special education services.
May 1, 1993... The yearly cross-sectional estimates provided in the Annual Reports to the Congress (e.g., U.S. Department of Education, 1989) show increases in the U.S. special education population. These estimates, however, do not indicate whether more...

A comparison of two approaches for teaching complex, authentic mathematics problems to adolescents in remedial math classes.
May 1, 1993... Since U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel Bell declared the United States a "nation at risk" in a report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education (1983), a steady stream of evidence has supported his contention. In mathematics,...