Exceptional Children articles from September 1998

Exceptional Children archives from September 1998

Dropout prevention for youth with disabilities: efficacy of a sustained school engagement procedure.
September 22, 1998... Increased dropout rates are a potential unintended outcome of several of our nation's current educational policies. Academic standards, for example, are moving away from minimum competencies toward high content and performance standards...

Real world use of scientific concepts: integrating situated cognition with explicit instruction.
September 22, 1998... Retention of concepts learned in class and their application to "real world" problems is a perennial issue in special education research on teaching (Belmont & Butterfield, 1977; Butterfield, Slocum, & Nelson, 1993; Kolligian & Sternberg,...

Academic and personality characteristics of gifted students with cerebral palsy: a multiple case study.
September 22, 1998... Gifted children with disabling conditions comprise a major group of underserved, understimulated students (Karnes & Johnson, 1991). A major portion of their time often is spent in remediation or learning to circumvent the effects of the...

IEP-specified peer interaction needs: accurate but ignored. (individualized education program)
September 22, 1998... Often, students with disabilities are judged as lacking peer interaction skills (e.g., Gresham, 1992; Mellard & Hazel, 1992). Yet these skills are needed for success in the work place (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills,...

The reality of best practices in transition: a case study.
September 22, 1998... The importance of effective transition planning for students with so-called "milder disabilities," such as learning disabilities, is becoming ever more apparent as outcome and longitudinal studies report dismal postschool outcomes for these...

Effects of differing levels of inclusion on preschoolers with disabilities.
September 22, 1998... The practice of inclusion (i.e., educating children with and without disabilities together) derives from the principle of least restrictive environment and the civil rights movement. Although some parents and professionals call for universal...

Students with learning problems at risk in middle school: stress, social support, and adjustment.
September 22, 1998... The changes that occur in early adolescence occur within almost every domain of the student's life--physical, social, educational, and familial. Most of these changes are gradual and have different timetables and magnitudes for different...

The case law on aversive interventions for students with disabilities.
September 22, 1998... The use of aversive interventions for students with disabilities is a highly charged, emotional issue; researchers have paid significant attention to this issue during the past 15 years (Horner et al., 1990; Repp & Singh, 1990; Skiba & Deno,...