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Jennifer A. Kurth; Elissa Lockman Turner; Daria Gerasimova; Tyler A. Hicks; Alison Zagona; Kirsten Lansey; Mary Curran Mansouri; J. Matt Jameson; Roxanne Loyless – Exceptionality, 2025
Educators and families develop individualized education programs (IEPs) to address unique needs of individual students with disabilities. Addressing all student needs is critical to ensuring students receive a free and appropriate public education. To understand how IEP teams address the needs of students with complex support needs, we examined…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Teamwork
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Karolina Urton; Mariola Moeyaert; Kerstin Nobel; Anne Barwasser; Richard T. Boon; Matthias Grünke – Exceptionality, 2025
This study employed a meta-analytic approach to examine the effectiveness of graphic organizers (GOs) in improving academic and behavioral outcomes for K-12 students with disabilities, drawing from the single-case special education literature. Moderators at participant and study level were analyzed in addition to the main effects. A comprehensive…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Students with Disabilities, Instructional Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
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Rachel Leslie; Melissa Fanshawe; Ellen Larsen; Alice Brown – Exceptionality, 2025
The relationship between schools and parents has evolved over recent years and is now recognized as a valuable and bi-directional partnership in the educative process. This partnership is of particular significance for parents with a dyslexic child, playing a vital role in ensuring success within the school and beyond. Using a unique conceptual…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities, Barriers
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Sarah J. Macoun; Laurissa Evancio; Chad A. Rose; Todd Milford – Exceptionality, 2025
Bullying has deleterious effects on the health of youth, families, schools, and communities. These effects are especially pronounced for youth with special education needs specific to emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Much of what is understood concerning the effects of bullying has been limited to face-to-face contexts. Despite the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Stephanie Devine; Cynthia Massey; Kathryn L. Haughney – Exceptionality, 2024
Although applications (apps) for technology-based self-monitoring have received little attention in the literature for college-level students with intellectual disability (ID) in inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) programs at institutions of higher education, novel tools regularly arrive and are applied within current support structures.…
Descriptors: College Students, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Postsecondary Education
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Kristina Rios; Christopher Reynoso; Kayla Vivas; Cynthia Ponce – Exceptionality, 2024
Family-school partnership is an essential component of the special education process for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Latinx families especially face systemic barriers when participating in education decision-making for their children with IDD. However, few interventions have been developed to facilitate and…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Parent Education
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Amanda N. Johnston; Meghan M. Burke – Exceptionality, 2024
High quality family-professional partnerships promote the personal, social, and academic growth of students with disabilities. However, due to systemic barriers, such partnerships can be difficult, especially for families from low-resourced communities. Using the Sunshine Model, the purpose of this systematic literature review was to characterize…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Barriers, Family School Relationship
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Mitchell L. Yell; M. Renee Bradley – Exceptionality, 2024
In 1974, the Education for all Handicapped Protection Act was signed into law by President Gerald Ford. This law which was renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1990, established a federal entitlement to special education for eligible students with disabilities. In 1982 and again in 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities, Federal Legislation
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Daniel P. Hallahan – Exceptionality, 2024
Special education stands at a pivotal juncture, confronting both existential challenges and transformational opportunities. The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is not upholding its mandate of promoting the Individualized Education Program (IEP). I underscore the centrality of the IEP in the…
Descriptors: Special Education, Individualized Education Programs, Students with Disabilities, Critical Race Theory
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Jean B. Crockett; Edwin W. Martin – Exceptionality, 2024
The history of the people, problems, and politics surrounding the establishment of federal special education policy is rich with useful illustrations for advocates and educators. As the 50th anniversary of IDEA approaches, we use a historical perspective to consider how the promise of the law -- to ensure access to a free appropriate public…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation
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Dimitris Anastasiou; Mack D. Burke; Andrew L. Wiley; James M. Kauffman – Exceptionality, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to define and describe the 'Telos' or purpose of special education. We argue that special education has three main (tripartite) functions: (a) research, (b) a distinct system, and (c) special instruction. The overall Telos of special education is to provide an educational service to better serve students whose…
Descriptors: Special Education, Role of Education, Students with Disabilities, Educational Research
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Terrance M. Scott; C. Michael Nelson – Exceptionality, 2024
The social movement toward cultural relativism has led to a growing distrust and even disbelief in the value of scientific inquiry regarding the effects of, or the need for, special education for students with disabilities. The authors examine the basic underpinnings of scientific methodology and its fundamental role in establishing best practice…
Descriptors: Special Education, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Role of Education
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Rob Pennington; Jason Travers – Exceptionality, 2024
We overview several key issues of the past, present, and near future of special education for students with severe disabilities. We contextualize the Telos of special education by briefly remarking on its historical roots in the United States, then delve into several issues we believe are critical for advancing toward better outcomes for students…
Descriptors: Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Severe Disabilities, Educational History
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Sally Valentino Drew; Jeff Thomas; Corey Nagle – Exceptionality, 2024
There have been many calls for the development of discipline-specific argument writing interventions to integrate science-specific and general literacy standards and goals. Yet, adolescents with and without exceptionalities struggle to meet existing writing demands. This explanatory sequential mixed methods design draws from the strengths of…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Inclusion, Secondary School Science
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Kristina Rios; Wei-Mo Tu – Exceptionality, 2024
Family involvement is an essential component of the special education process for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). In addition to the legal requirement that parents should be equal partners in the decision-making of the student's individualized education program (IEP) program (IDEA, 2004), a bulk of empirical research…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Special Education, Individualized Education Programs, Parent Attitudes
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