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Her mother asked for an assessment for these reasons: reading comprehension problems, speech and language problems, written langua...

soil. As Seitz says, stick to one topic and do it comprehensively rather than trying to do a little bit of a bunch of topics. That...

Another example is the effect of parental involvement. Parental involvement has been shown repeatedly to benefit regular educatio...

abuse, what it is, the causes, the apparent cyclic behaviour and the way that it may be prevented. Early studies indicated that ab...

to a punitive approach to discipline do exist and have been shown to be successful with special education students. For example, i...

torture, obviously having taken place since 9/11 as it involves the United States and terrorists, is now undergoing a new perspect...

typically live in poor neighborhoods, which means their neighborhood schools will be mostly populated with other poor students. Ba...

and/or accelerating literacy skills (Feldman, 2003). When accommodations are the focus, the message is that the adults around have...

No Child Left Behind Act, it is hard to dismiss the problems it has brought for some populations. For example, it seems that child...

pace, but also challenges them--and the rest of the students in the class--to push toward further achievement. Reflection #2: Stu...

population of zip code $ 50,000 - $59,999 11.0% $ 60,000 - $74,999 12.3% $ 75,000 - $99,999 11.5% Source: (Income and Housing,...

current theories and current research. Over time, changes in these theories and research and their application can have a lasting...

numbers of students classified as disabled and educated in largely segregated environments (Zernike, 2001). Mooney, et al (2003)...

all students. This type of classroom or programming design is especially helpful in classrooms of learners who progress at varie...

for special education services (Samuels, 2005). It honed in on the minority problem as well. Samuels (2005) writes: "Districts wit...

of 1998 low achieving schools were rewarded for their adoption of proven reading models (Skindrud and Gersten, 2006). With the 20...

with such aspects as homework (Patten, 1994; Bryan et al, 2004; Cooper et al, 1994). Reaching the special needs student req...

2007, p. 166). Livesay, et al (2007) point out that participation in professional collaborative learning communities helps teach...

education students within inclusive classrooms are peer tutoring and content mastery labs. The purpose of the following proposed r...

researchers did focus on learning-disabled students subject to individualized education planning (IEP). The researchers found tha...

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

the study will not address gender, ethnicity or socioeconomic status. The smallest group unit will be defined at the classroom le...

something to fear" (Forest and Pearpoint, n.d.). What we do know is that it costs about twice as much to educate a child with dis...

experienced working with students who have learning disabilities, she has a son with the same problems. The only mistake Jill made...

such as non-compliance, aggression, disruption, self-injury, property destruction and anti-social responses (Scott and Shearer-Lin...

children and this is also addressed before moving on to the recent history of special education in the US. Early beginnings In ...

throughput funding (based on tasks that need to be developed, and focusing more on services in a school) and output funding, which...

will be able to classify polygons. 3.) Students will identify triangles by sides and angles. * Data analysis and probabilities: 1....

man with fine moral sense when dealing with other human beings and is considered to be an admirable man not only because of his wr...

a great need to make them feel a part of the overall atmosphere, while at the same time establishing a separate learning basis fro...