Intervention in School & Clinic articles from May 2008

Intervention in School & Clinic archives from May 2008

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Facilitating transitions to college for students with disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.(Diversity Dispatches)(Report)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The overrepresentation of working-class African American, Latino/Latina, and Native American students in special education has been well documented (Johnson, 1991; Losen & Orfield, 2002) and the implications that are...

Increase academic success for children with ADHD using sticky notes and highlighters.(20 Ways To ...)(attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) represent about 3% to 5% of the school-age population and are most often educated in the general education classroom (Stormont, 2007; Zentall, 2006)....

Beginning teacher follow-up studies: a critical component of teacher education program evaluation and policy decisions.(Law and Policy)
May 1, 2008... Educational reform movements (Goodlad, 1991), university teacher education accreditation requirements (Council for Exceptional Children [CEC], 2003; Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium [INTASC], 2001; National Council for...

School-based collaboration: an introduction to the collaboration column.(Collaboration Column)
May 1, 2008... The need for school-based collaboration has increased over the past decade, and with mandates from the 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001, this need will...

Conference calendar.(Calendar)
May 1, 2008... May 2008 May 4-8, 2008. International Reading Association, 53rd Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. Contact: 800/336-7323; e-mail: customerservice@reading.org; Web site: http://www.reading.org. May 5-9, 2008. YAI/National Institute for...