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Kleinert, Harold L.; Kearns, Jacqui; Land, Lou-Ann; Page, Judith L.; Kleinert, Jane O'Regan – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2023
This article presents the rationale, evidence base, and strategies for teachers and related service personnel to implement peer-assisted Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) modeling with their students with complex communication needs within inclusive settings across the school day. Specific steps for teaching the student's same-age…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Students with Disabilities, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Inclusion
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Kleinert, Harold L.; Jones, Melissa M.; Sheppard-Jones, Kathleen; Harp, Beverly; Harrison, Elizabeth M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2012
In this article we describe the new opportunities for postsecondary education available to students with intellectual disabilities (ID) through the Higher Education Opportunities Act of 2008. We also identify the importance of these opportunities for students with ID, and key strategies for ensuring that their college experience is an important…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Opportunities, Extracurricular Activities, Career Exploration
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Kleinert, Jane O'Regan; Harrison, Elizabeth M.; Fisher, Tracy L.; Kleinert, Harold L. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2010
Self-advocacy and self-determination include the abilities to select personal goals, plan steps toward goals, assess one's progress, make choices, and self-monitor and self-evaluate one's behaviors. These are important skills in both current and future environments. Unfortunately, youth with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Self Advocacy, School Personnel
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Kleinert, Harold L.; Cloyd, Elizabeth; Rego, Molly; Gibson, Jina – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2007
With the provisions of both the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA 1997 and 2004), educators must ensure that all students have the opportunity to participate and progress in the general curriculum. These requirements are further bolstered by the No…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning, Disabilities
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Kleinert, Harold L.; Miracle, Sally A.; Sheppard-Jones, Kathy – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2007
Recreation and leisure activities play a vital role in all people's lives, and educators have long recognized that such activities are an important instructional emphasis for students with moderate and severe disabilities. This article offers teachers practical strategies for including their students with disabilities in school extracurricular…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Quality of Life, Disabilities, Recreational Activities
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Kleinert, Harold L.; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1988
A program used to teach moderately to severely mentally handicapped students to select the lower priced items in actual shopping activities is described. Through a five-phase process, students are taught to compare prices themselves as well as take into consideration variations in the sizes of containers and varying product weights. (VW)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Daily Living Skills, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
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Longwill, Amy Wildman; Kleinert, Harold L. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1998
Describes how high school peer tutoring programs can enhance educational outcomes, including increased academic performance, for students with and without moderate and severe disabilities. The role of such programs in educational restructuring is addressed, as is the way such programs can promote general education class participation and community…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Educational Change, High Schools
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Kearns, Jacqueline Farmer; Kleinert, Harold L.; Clayton, Jean; Burdge, Michael; Williams, Richard – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1998
Describes Kentucky's inclusion of all students in its educational assessment and accountability system. Describes how this system operates at three elementary schools to drive high expectations for all students and include students with disabilities in the general education curriculum. Students participate in either the standard assessment or…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Alternative Assessment, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
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Hall, Meada; Kleinert, Harold L.; Kearns, Jacqueline Farmer – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2000
This article describes how educational professionals, community members, students and parents in Jessamine County, Kentucky, worked together to help students with moderate and severe disabilities transition after high school graduation. It discusses how elective coursework was successfully combined with functional, community-based, education…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), College School Cooperation, College Students, High Schools