Exceptional Children articles from September 2005

Exceptional Children archives from September 2005

Reading instruction for elementary-age students with emotional and behavioral disorders: academic and behavioral outcomes.
September 22, 2005... Students with emotional and behavioral disorders (E/BD) frequently experience concomitant reading difficulties (Forhess, Bennett, & Tose, 1983; Rock, Fessler, & Church, 1997). For example, in a sample of students with E/BD in public schools...

Effects of a prereading intervention on the literacy and social skills of children.
September 22, 2005... Children with behavioral disorders (BD) consistently show moderate to severe academic achievement deficits relative to normally achieving students (e.g., Greenbaum et al., 1996; Mattison, Spitznagel, & Felix, 1998; Meadows, Neel, Scott, &...

Intellectual, academic, and behavioral functioning of students with high-incidence disabilities: a cross-categorical meta-analysis.
September 22, 2005... It has been well over 25 years since Hallahan and Kauffman (1977) published their seminal piece in The Journal of Special Education entitled, "Labels, Categories, Behaviors: ED, LD, and EMR Reconsidered." In that article the authors concluded...

Measuring the quality of family--professional partnerships in special education services.
September 22, 2005... The importance of establishing positive partnerships between families and professionals in education has long been recognized (Summers, Gavin, Hall, & Nelson, 2003). Parent involvement has been consistently related to students' cognitive...

Mother and soldier: raising a child with a disability in a low-income military family.
September 22, 2005... Although many American families struggle to manage both parenting and employment, the additional time and attention required to parent a child with disabilities complicates the task considerably (Booth & Kelly, 2004; Dodson, Manuel, & Bravo,...

A content and methodological review of self-advocacy intervention studies.
September 22, 2005... The terms self-advocacy and self-determination are often used interchangeably (Field, 1996). Although some authors have viewed self-determination as a subskill of self-advocacy (Zubal, Shoultz, Walker, & Kennedy, 1997), in most cases,...