Special Education Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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The uses of qualitative research: Powerful methods to inform evidence-based practice in education.
(Sheridan Press, 2017-01-03)This article offers a rationale for the contributions of qualitative research to evidence-based practice in special education. In it, I make the argument that qualitative research encompasses the ability to study significant ... -
Professional inquiry for inclusive education: Learning across and within institutional and professional boundaries.
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-01-12)We examined how an inquiry group composed of a university professor, 3 doctoral students, and a grade-level team of 7th- and 8th-grade teachers negotiated their collaborative work. This effort resulted in the development ... -
Using Successful Models of Student-Centered Transition Planning and Services for Adolescents with Disabilities
(Focus on Exceptional Children, 1999-05)Morningstar et al examine the history of transition programs for adolescents with disabilities and the role that transition plays within current reform efforts. They discuss information regarding current best practices and ... -
Strategies for Successfully Completing Online Professional Development
(Knowledge Content Development & Technology, 2011-12)Recently, increasing demand for teacher professional development and significant advances in information and communication technologies has led to a proliferation of online professional development. In spite of online ... -
Secondary Special Education Teachers’ Perceptions of Preparation for and Satisfaction with Transition Education and Services
(Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled / Employment Development Institute, 2013)Transition to adulthood for students with disabilities has emerged as a critical topic within the special education field when students with disabilities who had graduated high school exhibited poor outcomes. Although ... -
Self-Talk and Handicapped Children's Academic Needs: Applications of Cognitive Behavior Modification
(Clinical Psychology Publishing Co., 1985-07)This article addresses the practical validity of self-instruction training as an intervention for severely handicapped children. Three issues are addressed: (I) the development of verbal strategies that are adaptable to ... -
The Yardstick of Social Validity: Evaluating Quality of Life as Perceived by Adults without Disabilities
(Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 1992-06)Adults without disabilities were surveyed using the same instrument that was used to investigate the quality of life for adults with developmental disabilities. Survey results suggest that some quality of life indicators ... -
Quality of Life Differences between Adults with and without Disabilities
(Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 1994-06)Adults with and without disabilities were surveyed to investigate similarities and tween these groups on dimensions of quality of life. Differences were found in marital status ties to make choices, as well as in the extent ... -
Inclusive education’s promises and trajectories: Critical notes about future research on a venerable idea
(Arizona State University, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, 2016)The purpose of this article is to offer critical notes on inclusive education research in the U.S. We discuss issues germane to conceptual clarity and the ways in which inclusive education interacts with reforms that share ... -
Systematic Replication of the Effects of a Supplementary, Technology-Assisted, Storybook Intervention for Preschool Children with Weak Vocabulary and Comprehension Skills
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-05-19)In 2013, Spencer, Goldstein, Sherman, et al. reported the promising effects of a supplemental, technology-assisted, storybook intervention (Tier 2) containing embedded instruction targeting the oral language learning of ... -
The 30 Million–Word Gap Relevance for Pediatrics
(American Medical Association, 2016-09)As many as 40% to 50% of the children pediatric clinicians serve are growing up in low-income households. Among the myriad physical and mental health sequelae of early adversity and toxic stress, language development appears ... -
The Cultural Work of Teacher Education
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-07-11)Engaging teacher education as cultural work positions teacher educators and pre-service teachers as cultural workers. Cultural workers foreground the cultural complexities of their situated experiences while aiming to ... -
Culturally Responsive Evidence-based Practices with English Language Learners with Learning Disabilities: A Qualitative Case Study
(Texas Digital Library, 2017)This study describes the instruction of one special education teacher with English Language Learners (ELLs) with learning disabilities in an urban elementary school setting. This study was situated in a culturally responsive, ... -
Examining teachers' knowledge, confidence, and use of classroom management and instructional strategies: A book study
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)Nation-wide schools are moving towards multi-tiered systems of support in an effort to prevent and reduce students’ academic, behavioral and social challenges. In an effort to support schools with primary prevention or ... -
Supporting Young Children With Multiple Disabilities: What Do We Know and What Do We Still Need To Learn?
(SAGE Publications, 2012-02)Young children with multiple disabilities have unique needs and challenges. Many of these young children struggle to communicate their wants and needs, to freely move their body to access and engage their world, and to ... -
No Stone Left Unturned: Exploring the Convergence of New Capitalism in Inclusive Education in the U.S.
(Arizona State University, 2015-03-23)This paper examines how inclusive education reform is appropriated when New Capitalism work practices dominate the discourse of school improvement in an urban school. Weasked how New Capitalism mediates the formation of a ... -
Equity as a Basis for Inclusive Educational Systems Change
(SAGE Publications, 2016-11-16)Inclusion of students with “disabilities” in public systems of general education has been a global initiative since the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action by the UN General Assembly in 1994. Despite global and ... -
Improving Learning for All Students through Equity-Based Inclusive Reform Practices: Effectiveness of a Fully Integrated Schoolwide Model on Student Reading and Math Achievement
(SAGE Publications, 2016-04-19)The present investigation examines the Schoolwide Applications Model (SAM) as a potentially effective school reform model for increasing equity-based inclusive education practices while at the same time enhancing student ... -
Development and Preliminary Technical Adequacy of Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation Fidelity of Implementation Tool
(SAGE Publications, 2016-02-01)U.S. public education systems are required to provide free appropriate public education to students with disabilities in least restrictive environments that are appropriate to meet their individual needs. The practice of ... -
Collaborative Strategic Reading: Fostering Success for All
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2011-12)