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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Harbinson, Hilary; Alexander, Joy – Support for Learning, 2009
A major criterion for the diagnosis of Asperger syndrome is an impairment of the imagination. This article focuses on the specific difficulties that students with Asperger syndrome have with the imaginative content of the English curriculum. It examines the problems with reading and writing imaginatively of a group of students with AS in a…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Asperger Syndrome, Imagination, Secondary Schools
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Galbraith, Alison; Alexander, Joy – Support for Learning, 2005
In this article, Alison Galbraith and Joy Alexander use case studies of a group of primary school pupils to examine the efficacy of an integrated, eclectic approach to the teaching of literacy, including whether constructs such as self-concept and self-esteem have a bearing on academic achievement. Circle Time activities, interactive teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Psychotherapy, Locus of Control, Academic Achievement