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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...

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...

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

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

from the regular classroom at her middle school on the basis of her condition. The parents contended that the school and its super...

to illustrate the inherent effectiveness of the alternative approach of Distant Intentionality upon self-esteem, depression and an...

a) "students with disabilities participate in state and district-wide assessment programs, with accommodations where necessary (al...

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Snell uses her kindergarten-age nephew, Clayton, as her example of the failure of the public education system to meet the needs of...

important questions be asked. For instance, he asks a specific question in respect to an example provided: "How well are students ...

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

transition programs begin in high school, there is no reason why these kinds of programs cannot begin in elementary school. Differ...

observations in several different locations throughout the school over a period of three semesters. Each participant was also int...

believe that acquiring English skills is the more important than teaching the children in Spanish (Porter, 1999). Porters article...

to interact with the subject and to get a sense of who the person was. She states that even though it may remove some objectivity ...

distinguish between problems arising from emotional disorders and LD. Efforts to classify children so that they can be taug...

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...

finishes with a section on parental involvement and its affect on school success through attendance as well as improved performanc...

find help through federal programs, although there are problems of access within these systems. If the federal or state government...

is fair to accommodate golfers who have disabilities because they gain an unfair advantage. However, such beliefs can be detriment...

1998). They even question what schools and teachers are actually supposed to do to meet the needs of disabled children (Stout, 200...

Elementary and Secondary Schools Act (ESEA)" ("History," 2005). Of course, the term handicapped would eventually be deemed to be n...

robot as "A robot is a reprogramable multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices, ...

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

In six pages these journal articles on school administrative leadership and programs for special education are critiqued. Two sou...

their potential when programming begins early. Children who are diagnosed with disabilities and receive early services can begin ...

useful in early childhood classrooms (Gullo, 2005), and also in work with children who benefit from modifications to instructional...

In five pages this paper examines physical education in a consideration of inclusion programs for children who have special needs....