Exceptional Children articles from September 1996

Exceptional Children archives from September 1996

Predictors of victimization experiences of adolescents with disabilities in transmission.
September 22, 1996... Transition from high school to adult life for adolescents with disabilities has gained considerable attention since its introduction as a federal priority in 1984 (Will, 1984). The primary interest in transition has focused on the movement from...

Middle and high school students' perceptions on being friends with peers with severe disabilities.
September 22, 1996... Social interaction researchers have documented that students interact differently with aggressive, rejected, and ignored students than they do with socially accepted classmates (Chazan, Laing, Jones, Harper, & Bolton, 1983; Dodge, 1983). As a...

Teacher and administrator perceptions of heterogeneous education.
September 22, 1996... For over a decade, researchers and educators have discussed changing the delivery of special education services, using such terms as "mainstreaming," "regular education initiative," and "inclusion." These discussions have highlighted some of...

Educational placements for children who are ventilator assisted.
September 22, 1996... Meeting the educational needs of children who are ventilator assisted poses an enormous challenge for parents, educators, and medical personnel. Much of the challenge stems from a lack of policies regarding provision of services to children...

Teacher perceptions of mainstreaming/inclusion, 1958-1995: a research synthesis.
September 22, 1996... "Mainstreaming" (and more recently "inclusion") describes the process of integrating students with disabilities into general education classes in order to address the requirement of "least restrictive environment" mandated by the Education for...

Packing the parachute: parents' experiences as their children prepare to leave high school.
September 22, 1996... I feel my job isn't done. Tell that to a 17-year-old boy who thinks he's adult. I want him to fly--with a parachute. Some of this 'chute comes from school, some from home. (Parent of a high school senior.) The period of time in...

Academic, social, and behavioral adjustment for students declassified from special education.
September 22, 1996... Recent reforms in education have been driven, in part, by a series of reports suggesting that students in the United States are unable to meet contemporary economic and societal demands. Some outside reviewers question the methods used in these...

Creating conversation: reflections on cultural sensitivity in family interviewing.
September 22, 1996... A good conversation is neither a fight nor a contest. Circular in form, cooperative in manner, and constructivist in intent, it is an interchange of ideas by those who see themselves not as adversaries but as human beings come...

Ladders to literacy: the effects of teacher-led phonological activities for kindergarten children with and without disabilities.
September 22, 1996... Phonological awareness is the ability to blend, segment, rhyme, or in other ways manipulate the sounds of spoken words. In kindergarten, these abilities predict reading achievement independently from letter knowledge, vocabulary, and IQ...