intervention (RTI) like targeted individualized interventions and regular progress monitoring are occasionally missed due to the lack of fidelity to best practices and recommended guidelines based on evidence-based instructional strategies. As a futu Continue Reading...
It is also worth noting that the evolving nature of special education can be attributed to the cultural changes, family values, and civilizations taking place. Research attitudes towards people with special educational needs exhibit considerable va Continue Reading...
It would not only be time consuming and expensive for each classroom teacher to develop an effective basic reading skills curriculum but such a curriculum is also fraught with a high degree of error. There is compelling evidence that supports the us Continue Reading...
In their study, "Thinking of Inclusion for All Special Needs Students: Better Think Again," Rasch and his colleagues (1994) report that, "The political argument in favor of inclusion is based on the assumption that the civil rights of students, as Continue Reading...
PARC won their case, with the court ruling that all children, including those with identified special needs, were entitled to a "free, appropriate public education" (Eric 1998). This case, and several others that challenged similar laws and/or de fa Continue Reading...
More importantly, our appreciative and participatory stance with our co-researchers has allowed us to witness and learn about the cutting edge of leadership work in such a way that is and feels qualitatively different from other research traditions Continue Reading...
Brown (1987) points out that learning disabled children lacking social skills may grow into adults that lack the "vital skills of social interaction" thus their lives may be filled with unnecessary struggles and unemployment. Factors that can help Continue Reading...
Special Education Budget Analysis Special education directors/leaders must sufficiently understand the budgeting process in order to be able to explain why specific numbers have been entered in a budget. To gain some additional understanding in this Continue Reading...
SPECIAL EDUCATION & EARLY CHILDHOOD Special Education Tasks in Special Education and Early Childhood Defining Intellectual Disability and Degrees Thereof Language is a powerful tool or a powerful weapon. The language used to described non-no Continue Reading...
Early Childhood Special Education Curriculum, Instruction and Methods Projects This beginning chapter delineates education to the young children with special needs. In particular, early childhood special education mirrors impact and acclaimed practi Continue Reading...
special education has changed dramatically. Gone are the days of the special classroom down the hall where special education students were hidden away and kept from the general student population. Gone are the days when special education students we Continue Reading...
Kenny, L., Hattersley, C., Molins, B., Buckley, C., Povey, C., & Pellicano, E. (2015). Which terms should be used to describe autism? Perspectives from the UK autism community. Autism, 20(4), 442–462. doi:10.1177/1362361315588200 Autism spe Continue Reading...
The teachers of tomorrow can become better prepared to better handle the diverse needs of students in a special education setting. In “Effects of a Professional Development Package to Prepare Special Education Paraprofessionals to Implement Evi Continue Reading...
Elementary Special Education Teachers Place Value in the use of Technology Resources for Students? Technology is an integral part of society. People share and communicate ideas using emails, Skype, and public/private forums. For numerous organizatio Continue Reading...
This qualitative research uses a Delphi study to explore the perceptions of special education teachers regarding retention. This Delphi study includes twenty-five to thirty special education teachers of K-12 in two California districts of less than Continue Reading...
country's public schools are experiencing dwindling state education budgets and increased unfunded mandates from the federal government, the search for optimal approaches to providing high quality educational services for students with learning disa Continue Reading...
Federal laws and regulations provide a framework for addressing the needs of special education students. In addition to these laws and regulations, how has literature shaped the education communities' practice of special education in schools? Support Continue Reading...
Observation Portfolio – Special Education Classroom Introduction This observation portfolio paper presents a summary of my experience and knowledge gained from analyzing four observation sessions in a special education classroom setting. Observ Continue Reading...
Pedagogic Model for Teaching of Technology to Special Education Students Almost thirty years ago, the American federal government passed an act mandating the availability of a free and appropriate public education for all handicapped children. In 19 Continue Reading...
" In addition to the highly qualified mandates of NCLB there are also requirements to use research-based education practices over effective-based education practices. The different levels of ability combined with the various qualifiers of special e Continue Reading...
Teaching Strategy for Special Ed Special Education Standard Direct instruction is the most widely-used teaching strategy, although it has become controversial in recent years. Critics argue that it limits the creativity of good teachers and provide Continue Reading...
Special Education Teachers Special Education Vacancies Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention Barriers to Hiring Barriers to retaining special education personnel. Incentives used to improve retention. Recommendations to Improve Recruitment and Re Continue Reading...
mixed research solution to help explain just why there are so many black males in special education. The researcher supported the research questions by utilizing article, journals, observational researches, and statistical data to greatly assisted i Continue Reading...
Transitions occur in many different educational, societal, and familial situations. Among the more common situations where problems of adjustment might be encountered are changing from one school to another, a change in grades, the shift to regular Continue Reading...
English for academic purposes approach focuses on the reader, too, not as a specific individual but as the representative of a discourse community, for example, a specific discipline or academia in general. The reader is an initiated expert who repr Continue Reading...
Adopting Special Needs Children When it comes to adoption, parenting styles for special needs children is really no different. There are hundreds and thousands of children that are currently living in the foster care system that are put into the gro Continue Reading...
Early Childhood As Service Coordinator, my role is to explain the IFSP and the IEP and serve as liaison with other people and agencies who are part of the child's plan. The screening process looks at cognitive, physical, emotional, social, and commu Continue Reading...
Special Needs Intervention Client Profile Brenda is a seven-year-old second grader that has been identified as dyslexic. She has significant delays in pre-literacy and numeracy skills have been identified through both formal assessment and performa Continue Reading...
The rules of this paradigm are that government usually perform formal inquiries because they hope to establish trends for funding or new educational models, while social research does not have to follow these rules, instead, they study social proble Continue Reading...
What works for one child is not necessarily going to work for the next. So how can one promote the use of standardized tests as the only way to measure educational learning and success? The premise of the No Child Left Behind Act is very honorable. Continue Reading...
Education Need for Study Roles and Responsibilities of Assistant Principals Historical Perspective of Assistant Principal Roles Prior and Current Research Studies of Assistant Principal Roles Assistant Principals and Use of Instructional Leaders Continue Reading...
EDSE 600: History and Philosophy of Education / / 3.0 credits The class entitled, History and Philosophy of Education, focused on the origin of education and the "philosophical influences of modern educational theory and practice. Study of: philos Continue Reading...
The sample was composed of 162 students, 81 that were from grade 5 and 81 from grade 2. Tutors were chosen from classes of children with learning disabilities and the tutees were selected from regular classes. The tutors and tutees were randomly ass Continue Reading...
Intervention Effectiveness Response to instruction and intervention RTI2 is reported as a general approach in education to closing the gap in achievement. RTI2 methods are constructed upon the Response to Intervention (RTI) model that was an option Continue Reading...
Dyslexia as a Specific Learning Disability Classified under the broader rubric of specific learning disabilities, dyslexia is a severe reading disability known to have a neurological basis (Taylor, Smiley & Richards, 2009, p. 92). Because reading Continue Reading...
RTI Response to Intervention Response to Intervention (RTI) Over the past decade, rapid changes have occurred in general educational practice to increase the focus on early identification of and intervention for students considered at risk. The ap Continue Reading...
evidence-based quality of behavior intervention plans (BIPs) and student outcomes under natural educational conditions," (p. 4). The five components of the research question are all related to the purpose of the study, about the relationship between Continue Reading...
This is counter to the points made later in the article regarding distance education theory (Najjar, 2008) and its impact on a more individualized approach to distance instruction. Arguably the impact of higher-speed collaborative technologies of wh Continue Reading...
Special Education Diverse Learners Project Guidelines Section 1: Abstract This paper provides an overview of Butler College Prep, its demographics, and its programs and services for special needs students. It looks at curriculum and instruction effor Continue Reading...
