Exceptional Children articles from May 1994

Exceptional Children archives from May 1994

A commentary on inclusion and the development of a positive self-identity by people with disabilities.
May 1, 1994... * The issue of educational integration or inclusion has been the focus of much debate over the past several years in many articles published in Exceptional Children (e.g., Blackman, 1989; Braaten, Kauffman, Braaten, Polsgrove, & Nelson, 1988:...

A qualitative policy study of the least restrictive environment provision of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
May 1, 1994... Since the implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1978 (currently known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA), practitioners, researchers, parents, and policy makers have continually raised...

Mainstreaming students with learning disabilities: are we making progress?
May 1, 1994... * For more than 20 years, many professionals in special education have accepted as axiomatic the need to educate most students with mild disabilities (i.e., learning disabilities, mild mental retardation, and behavior disorders) in typical...

Classwide curriculum-based measurement: helping general educators meet the challenge of student diversity.
May 1, 1994... * Curriculum-based measurement (CBM; Deno, 1985) is a set of assessment methods for indexing student growth in the school curriculum. Each CBM is a parallel test, systematically sampling the multiple skills that constitute the year's...

Effects of cooperative homework teams on the acquisition of mathematics skills by secondary students with mild disabilities.
May 1, 1994... Recent studies (e.g., Anrig & Lapointe, 1989; Byrne, 1989) have provided an alarming picture of student achievement in mathematics at all grade levels. For example, Byrne found: "Most American students leave school with such a poor...

Differences in mathematics performance between students with learning disabilities and students with mild retardation.
May 1, 1994... * Researchers in the special education field have recently discussed the difficulties in identifying students considered mildly disabled and assigning them to categorical groups based on a diagnostic label. On one hand, some researchers have...