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Bartolo, Paul A. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2010
This paper discusses major challenges for the development of teacher education for inclusion through an analysis of relevant recent experience in Malta. Inclusion in society and in education has been explicitly on the Maltese national agenda for the past two decades. The Faculty of Education of the University of Malta has been one of the main…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Inclusive Schools
Fisher, Andrew – Online Submission, 2008
Persons with intellectual disabilities have been integrated into post secondary education at increasing rates since the 1990s. Some colleges and universities have responded to the influx of this population by implementing specific programs designed to meet the needs of students who have intellectual disabilities. As many as 138 college campuses…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, College Students, Postsecondary Education, College Faculty
Vernon-Dotson, Lisa Jo – Journal of School Leadership, 2008
Effective educational reform involves changes in the overall operations of schools. Teachers who collaborate, analyze the functions of their schools, and adjust their practices become leaders and participants in whole-school change. This study documents the impact of teacher leadership teams from three schools in their efforts to increase access…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Educational Change, School Restructuring, Teacher Collaboration
Dart, Gareth – International Journal of Special Education, 2007
This paper considers the support of children with special educational needs in Botswana. A variety of sources including policy documents, literature, statistical data, interviews with key personnel and observation, are used to analyse the context and delivery of provision. Botswana is a middle-income country that has seen rapid economic expansion…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Curriculum Development, Educational Quality, Hearing Impairments
Collet-Klingenberg, Lana L.; Hanley-Maxwell, Cheryl; Stuart, Shannon – 2000
This brief discusses how the Research Institute on Secondary Education Reform (RISER) for Youth with Disabilities model, Schools of Authentic Inclusive Learning (SAIL), and career development constructs and processes intersect. The brief provides an overview of SAIL, of authentic and inclusive learning, and of career development theory, while…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Career Awareness, Career Development
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 2000
This 22nd annual report to Congress on the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 1997 (IDEA) begins with a special preface reflecting on the progress made in the 25 years since the initial passage of the law. Following the preface, Section 1 examines contextual and environmental factors such as the role of minority…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Early Intervention
Wolery, Mark, Ed.; Wilbert, Jan S., Ed. – 1994
Because all early childhood programs must now be prepared to serve children with special needs, early childhood staffs confront a host of new challenges and opportunities. This research monograph offers early childhood educators a foundational resource of information needed to develop inclusion practices. Chapter 1, "Introduction to the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Classroom Environment, Developmental Delays, Disabilities
Maddy-Bernstein, Carolyn, Comp.; And Others – 1995
This guide, which is designed for practitioners, contains descriptions of 137 resources concerned with strategies, resources, programs, and research on inclusion, detracking, ability grouping, mainstreaming, and cooperative learning. The entries describing each resource are organized into seven sections: publications, newsletters, journals,…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Abstracts, Access to Education, Annotated Bibliographies
Hettleman, Kalman R. – Abell Foundation, 2004
Students with disabilities across the nation, including Baltimore City, are failing to achieve their academic potential. Inadequate instruction and other inappropriate or unlawful practices cause and conceal the dysfunction of special education. At long last, the illusion and broken promises of special education have been publicly exposed. Under…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Learning Problems, Federal Legislation, At Risk Students
Lipsky, Dorothy Kerzner – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2005
Changes in laws are reflected--even foreshadowed on occasion--by the field's scholarship. In the 1980s, there were few who recognized that adults with disabilities were an important resource in the education of students with disabilities or that issues of race and culture had consequence for identifying and delivering services to these children.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Education, Access to Education, Disabilities
Mellard, Daryl; Hall, Jean; Leibowitz, Ruth – 1997
This report discusses the current nature, extent, and outcomes of accommodations for adults with disabilities in adult education programs. Information was gathered through a national survey of adult education programs, statewide interviews of adult education instructors, statewide interviews of adult learners with disabilities, literature reviews,…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Adult Education
Warger, Cynthia – 1998
This digest discusses how assistive technology (AT) for students with disabilities can expand access to the general education curriculum. It begins by describing the Education TECH Point system which offers educators a strategy for identifying specific points in the planning process where AT should be considered, including: initial referral…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Disabilities
Copeland, Susan R.; Cosbey, Joanna – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2009
Research strongly supports including students with extensive support needs in general education settings and providing them access to the general curriculum. Yet, there is limited research indicating how to provide them authentic access to this curriculum. This article explores several instructional approaches to provide access including (a) use…
Descriptors: General Education, Severe Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Delano, Monica E.; Keefe, Liz; Perner, Darlene – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2009
All teacher preparation programs face serious challenges; however, programs that prepare teachers to work with students with extensive support needs face additional, unique challenges in preparing professionals to facilitate their students' development of functional skills and to ensure their access to the general education curriculum. The purpose…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Teacher Education Programs, Course Content
Ward, Theresa – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2009
In the late 1960s and 1970s, the author was falsely labeled as a student with mental retardation, a label that controlled her educational experience for 8 years. In the early 1980s, she completed traditional university licensure programs to become both a general and a special education teacher. In this article, the author provides the perspective…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Mental Retardation, Educational Experience, Special Education
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