Intervention in School & Clinic articles

Recent articles from Intervention in School & Clinic

Coping with grief: guidelines and resources for assisting children.(Cover story)
May 1, 2008... This article provides basic information for school-based mental health professionals, teachers, staff, and administrators to support students coping with grief, and more specifically, grief related to death. The information is consolidated into guidelines and key points in providing support;...

Implementing CRA with secondary students with learning disabilities in mathematics.
May 1, 2008... Students with learning disabilities struggle to acquire essential mathematical concepts and skills, especially at the secondary level. One effective approach to improving secondary math performance supported by research is the concrete-to-representational-to-abstract (CRA) sequence of...

Making collaboration work in inclusive high school classrooms: recommendations for principals.
May 1, 2008... The growing number of children with disabilities who are served in general education classrooms has made it necessary for general and special education teachers to work together to ensure that all students receive an appropriate education. As the instructional leader, the school principal is...

Using common sense in common settings: active supervision and precorrection in the morning gym.(Report)
May 1, 2008... The management of a large number of children in a nonclassroom or common setting (e.g., gymnasium, auditorium) can present a challenge to school staff. This article describes a set of commonsense solutions that were implemented with 400 elementary students in a before-school common setting....

An educational programming framework for a subset of students with diverse learning needs: borderline intellectual functioning.(Report)
May 1, 2008... Students with intelligence test scores between 70 and 85 frequently fall into the gap between general and special education. Students with borderline intellectual functioning are a large population at-risk for school failure. Recent educational trends (e.g., the use of response to...