This study examined the effects of scripted lessons (SLs) alone and in combination with guided notes during science instruction on science quiz scores of three elementary[...]

Studies on parent involvement in education have most often been gender-neutral, although it is primarily mothers who undertake such work (Reay, 1998; West andNoden, 1998)[...]

The purpose of this study was to examine the educational services for students with autism in school districts (N = 115) in North Carolina to identify the characteristics[...]

For more than two decades, teacher efficacy has been identified as being crucial for improving educational reform, teacher education, teachers' teaching behaviors, and te[...]

Understanding the attitudes and perspectives of early childhood administrators toward inclusion is essential, as these leaders play a critical role in shaping the impleme[...]

Research begun in the 1960s provided the impetus for teacher educators to urge classroom teachers to establish classroom rules, deliver high rates of verbal/nonverbal pra[...]

Poster presented on October 2014 at the International Conference on Young Children with Special Needs and their Families in St. Louis, Missouri.

This study investigated the effects of an early numeracy intervention package on early numeracy skill attainment for participants with moderate intellectual disabilities,[...]

In this study, the authors examine whether an advanced online technology can be used to give teacher trainees real-time feedback on their use of research-based classroom [...]

Scholars advocate the use of children's literature to help build awareness, understanding, and acceptance of disability in elementary school classrooms. Moreover, childre[...]

The writer talks about how the voices of Helen Keller and Burton Blatt can challenge educators of mental retardation to hold firm to a belief in the miracle of unconditio[...]

This study examined the online collaboration and problem solving processes of preservice general education and special education teachers from two teacher education progr[...]

Despite the relatively great volume of professional debate regarding the elimination of categories within the field of special education, much effort continues to be inve[...]

Because young children with special needs frequently experience unequal access to quality education worldwide, understanding characteristics of services currently provide[...]

The writer discusses how Charles Darwin's deep love for his youngest child, who had mental retardation, contrasted with his theory that people with mental retardation wer[...]

Effective practices in student data collection and implementation of data-based instructional decisions are needed for all educators, but are especially important when st[...]

In 1993 an article that has become a classic in public policy was published in The American Scholar. In this essay, U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan discussed the way[...]

With the increasing number of preschool-age children of Latino heritage entering U.S. schools comes a growing need to accurately determine children's individual needs and[...]

For a number of years, I have been intrigued by what might be termed the retrospective diagnosis of developmental disabilities. In my book Minds Made Feeble: The Myth and[...]

Young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) require supports and services designed to meet their unique needs. Research has identified 27 evidence-based practices [...]

History, trends, and data indicate the harm of segregation for persons with significant cognitive disabilities (SCD; Burton & Blatt; 1966; Nielsen, 2013). One school [...]

Objective: The purpose of this article is to estimate the overall weighted mean effect of the relation between early language skills and later behavior problems in school[...]

Poster Presented at the Evelyn Reed Symposium on Early Childhood Research and Practice on June 2014 in Richmond, Virginia

Competence in early numeracy skills highly correlate with success in mathematics in later years; however, many students, including students with moderate and severe disab[...]

Although co-teaching has become a popular approach to special education service provision in inclusive classrooms, practitioners have struggled to carry it out well. One [...]