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Landmark, Leena Jo; Stockall, Nancy; Cole, Corinna Villar; Mitchell, Vickie J.; Durán, Jaime B.; Gushanas, Christina M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Much has been written about the challenges of effective transition planning (e.g., Cavendish & Connor, 2018; Landmark etal., 2007; Luft, 2015). In this article, ways to mitigate some of these common challenges are provided, including low or passive student and family involvement, unresponsiveness to family culture, poor communication between…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Early Childhood Education, Postsecondary Education, Student Participation
Artman-Meeker, Kathleen; Grant, Thomas O.; Yang, Xueyan – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2016
In our increasingly diverse schools, teachers have a responsibility and an opportunity to help students see themselves and others through the lens of literature. There are few resources available to help teachers make decisions about what literature to choose and how to use that literature in relation to disability in the classroom. This article…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Consciousness Raising, Children
Johnsen, Susan K.; Parker, Sonia L.; Farah, Yara N. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2015
Response to intervention (RTI) was included in the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), specifically as part of an assessment process to determine if a child has a disability. Although IDEA's focus is on students with disabilities, 10 states have developed policies that attend to students with gifts and…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Academically Gifted, Student Needs, Federal Legislation
deFur, Sharon – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2012
Parental involvement and parent-school-community partnerships receive wide acclaim for making a positive difference in the educational and transition outcomes for youth with and without disabilities. Although the impact of parental involvement in education remains undisputed, secondary education traditionally emphasizes the emerging adult…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Parent Participation, Parent Role, Disabilities
Shaw, Stan F.; Dukes, Lyman L., III; Madaus, Joseph W. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2012
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004) requires that each local education agency provide a transition summary document, commonly called a Summary of Performance (SOP), to all special education students who are graduating with a regular diploma or reach the maximum age for services. Although state compliance with this…
Descriptors: Disabilities, School Districts, State Departments of Education, Federal Legislation
Fairbanks, Sarah; Simonsen, Brandi; Sugai, George – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2008
Many present day classroom teachers face greater challenges than perhaps during any time in the past. Teachers are expected to: (a) provide evidence-based instruction to ensure that students make adequate yearly progress under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB); (b) serve an increasingly diverse group of students including students with…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Intervention, Social Behavior, Federal Legislation

Swart, Richard – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1979
The author describes a resource room program to help junior-senior educable mentally retarded students in a modified open classroom designed to facilitate learner involvement on an individualized basis and to emphasize affective growth. (SBH)
Descriptors: Humanistic Education, Individualized Programs, Mainstreaming, Mental Retardation

Hoover, Todd – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1978
The article describes a program to help rural secondary students identified as emotionally and/or mildly mentally handicapped. (CL)
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation, Program Descriptions

Cegelka, Patricia T.; Phillips, Misha W. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1978
The article reviews the implications for secondary level handicapped students of legislative mandates requiring individualized education programs (IEPs). (CL)
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Handicapped Children, Individualized Programs, Secondary Education

Cassidy, Jack; Walzl, Patricia – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1978
The article describes activities (such as reading and interpreting restaurant menus) designed to teach survival skills to secondary special education students. (CL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Class Activities, Functional Reading, Handicapped Children

Kaplan, Stanley – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1977
Described is a diagnostic instrument to evaluate basic occupational skills and attitudes of educable mentally retarded students in a work-study program. (CL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Job Skills, Mental Retardation

D'Alonzo, Bruno J.; Miller, Sidney R. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1977
Descriptors: Administration, Adolescents, Educational Methods, Educational Strategies

Chandler, Cynthia R. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1977
By operating a temporary care service for houseplants, trainable mentally handicapped secondary students developed responsibility and interest in a productive leisure time activity. (CL)
Descriptors: Horticulture, Leisure Time, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation

Rich, Anita; Nedboy, Robin – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1977
A class of socially maladjusted, emotionally disturbed innercity adolescents responded enthusiastically to developing individual and group poems. (CL)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Disadvantaged Youth, Emotional Disturbances, Learning Activities

Alberto, Paul; Sharpton, William – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1987
Suggestions are given for self-operated prompting strategies to help severely handicapped students perform independently in the community, vocational, or classroom setting. Guidelines are given for developing pictorial prompts and auditory (tape recorded) prompts.(DB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Prompting, Secondary Education