Exceptional Children articles from September 1992

Exceptional Children archives from September 1992

How prepared are our teachers for mainstreamed classroom settings? A survey of postsecondary schools of education in New York State.
September 1, 1992... Several authors (e.g., Ganschow, Weber, & Davis, 1984) have argued that the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-142) would necessarily have resulted in modified state requirements for training...

Development and preliminary psychometric properties of the Transition Competence Battery for Deaf Adolescents and Young Adults.
September 1, 1992... Developing vocational and independent living skills is critical to the ultimate work and day-to-day success of people with hearing impairments. It is crucial that reliable and valid assessment data be gathered to guide and structure focused and...

Making sense of disability: low-income, Puerto Rican parents' theories of the problem.
September 1, 1992... In the face of the rapidly increasing cultural diversity of the United States, the special education system is faced with the challenge of explaining its services and practices to people who may hold radically different types of cultural...

Implementing a successful writing program in public schools for students who are deaf.
September 1, 1992... The difficulties that young students who are deaf have with writing English are well documented in a history that goes back several decades (Heider & Heider, 1940; Kluwin, 1979; Stuckless & Birch, 1966; Taylor, 1969; Thompson, 1936; Walter,...

The Task Demonstration Model: a concurrent model for teaching groups of students with severe disabilities.
September 1, 1992... Significant progress has been made in the past 10 years in implementing functional, community-based educational programs for people with severe mental retardation. However, there are many questions about the best procedures for teaching these...

Grading secondary vocational education students with disabilities: a national perspective.
September 1, 1992... Student evaluation and grading are integral components of our educational system. They are equally important for secondary vocational educators (Carpenter, 1985; Hess, Miller, Reese, & Robinson, 1987; Kiraly & Bedell, 1984; Lindsey, Burns, &...

Teaching children with autism through task variation in physical education.
September 1, 1992... For more than 40 years, researchers and teachers in physical education have been concerned with the way certain variables affect the learning experiences of students (e.g., Ammons, 1947; Caplan, 1969; Digman, 1959). Many researchers have...