Exceptional Children articles from September 2007

Exceptional Children archives from September 2007

Preview.(Editorial)
September 22, 2007... I hope you had a great summer and will have an even better fall. I want to remind you that the Report to the Readership for volume 73 is included in this issue, and although it is not particularly exciting reading, it does provide a good...

A review of the effects of peer tutoring on students with mild disabilities in secondary settings.(Table)
September 22, 2007... Seventh-grade through 12th-grade students are expected to obtain knowledge and skills through various activities, such as teacher lectures and reading textbooks independently (Mastropieri, Scruggs, Spencer, & Fontana, 2003). Researchers...

Repeated reading versus continuous reading: influences on reading fluency and comprehension.(Table)
September 22, 2007... The recent focus on scientifically based reading instruction has led many school districts to consider reading development in terms of the five dimensions that organized the National Reading Panel Reports of the Subgroups (NRP, 2000): phonemic...

Outcomes of a teacher-led reading intervention for elementary students at risk for behavioral disorders.(Table)
September 22, 2007... Educators have long recognized that students with emotional/ behavioral disorders (E/BD) and those who are at risk for such problems have social and behavioral patterns that impede instruction. For example, these students often misinterpret...

How much growth can we expect? A conditional analysis of R-CBM growth Rates by level of performance.(Reading-Curriculum-Based Measurement)(Table)
September 22, 2007... Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) represents a standardized set of measurement techniques used to index student academic performance in the basic skill areas of reading, mathematics, spelling, and written expression (Deno, 1985; Deno, Mirkin,...

A qualitative study of the initiation and continuation of preschool inclusion programs.(Table)
September 22, 2007... A number of researchers have reported positive outcomes of inclusion for young children with disabilities (Buysse & Bailey, 1993; Lamorey & Bricker, 1993; Odom, Wolery, Lieber, Sandall, Hanson, Beckman et al., 1999). Others have noted that an...

Classroom variables and access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities.(Table)
September 22, 2007... The 1997 amendments to the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act included language requiring the individualized education program (IEP) of any student receiving special education services to describe how the student would be involved with...

Report to the readership.(Editorial)
September 22, 2007... This is the start of my fifth year as editor of Exceptional Children. This is not a one person job and I owe considerable thanks to a lot of people. I would especially like to thank my assistant, Xiaolun Qi, who has been awesome, but...