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Grillo, Monica – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a critical issue for public schools in our country. UDL is an inclusive framework based on the science of learning. It supports and removes barriers to learning for all students while maintaining high expectations. Federal education policies have called for inclusive instruction based on UDL…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Access to Education, Inclusion, Teacher Attitudes
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Cawthon, Stephanie W.; Goldstone, Linda; Higgins, Jennifer; Thurlow, Martha – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Postsecondary entrance and placement tests provide critical information that shapes the trajectory of the transition from secondary to postsecondary education. Test accommodations can play an important role in reducing barriers that deaf students face during high-stakes testing. For deaf students, decisions about access and accommodations for…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Postsecondary Education, Students with Disabilities, Deafness
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McGraw, Melissa L. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
With a growing population of emergent bilingual learners in the United States, we are seeing more emergent bilinguals qualifying for special education services. Special education teachers must be prepared to meet the linguistic needs of their students in addition to disability related needs. One way of doing so involves adopting Culturally…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Culturally Relevant Education, Special Education Teachers, Language Usage
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Barbetta, Patricia M.; Morales, Melanie – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
This article discusses how three low-tech instructional strategies, typically used in face-to-face teaching, can be successfully used in synchronous and asynchronous online instruction with students with high-incidence disabilities and their typical-learning peers in inclusive online classes. The three strategies are choral responding, response…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses, Students with Disabilities
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Scheibel, Gretchen; Ma, Zijie; Travers, Jason C. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder are likely to demonstrate social impairments that contribute to challenging behaviors and academic difficulties. As a result, the task of improving social communication skills is a critical component to any educational program for this population. Scripting provides an evidence-based and versatile option for…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Communication
Henry, Alyssa R.; Solari, Emily J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience associated difficulties in reading comprehension. This may be due to the social nature of fictional texts, which require the reader to interpret what characters are thinking and feeling and to make inferences about the cause and effect between events in a story. This paper outlines…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension
Geist, Lori; Erickson, Karen – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Robust vocabulary instruction is an important part of comprehensive English language arts (ELA) instruction. Vocabulary instruction supports students in learning the meaning of words to build a receptive vocabulary that they can rely on to comprehend the words they read and hear. Many students with significant cognitive disabilities (SCD) and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Students with Disabilities, Severe Intellectual Disability, Receptive Language
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Riesen, Tim; Trainor, Audrey A.; Traxler, Rachel Elizabeth; Padia, Lilly B.; Remund, Corban – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Secondary educators implement an array of work-based learning activities that expose transition-age students to the demands of post-secondary employment. One such strategy, internships, provides students with a formal opportunity to acquire transferable employment skills that lead to meaningful post-secondary employment outcomes. Facilitating…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Students with Disabilities, Best Practices, Secondary School Teachers
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Fenty, Nicole S.; Pierce, Abby; Schildwachter, Julia – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
There has been an increased emphasis in recent years on supporting young children with building 21st century literacy skills such as critical thinking and collaboration. Unfortunately, young children with or at risk for disabilities are unlikely to receive access to experiences that build 21st century literacies. Pre-coding activities, which…
Descriptors: Programming, Literacy, Integrated Activities, Early Childhood Education
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Foxworth, Lauren L.; Hashey, Andrew I.; Dexter, Courtney; Rasnitsyn, Shelly; Beck, Rachel – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Explicit Instruction (EI) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) have been identified as high-leverage instructional practices in special education, effective for bolstering academic outcomes among learners with processing difficulties and enabling all learners to access curriculum. Given the breadth of research supporting the use of EI across…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Students with Disabilities, Outcomes of Education, Learning Problems
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Anderson, Laura K. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Students with intellectual disabilities are among the least likely students to spend a significant amount of time in general education classrooms. When they are included, they may spend their time on non-academic learning experiences. Universal Design for Learning is a lesson planning framework that can guide teachers in inclusive lesson planning.…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Inclusion, Access to Education
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Richardson, Robert D.; Crewdson, Margaret A.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Wheat, Laura S.; Martinez, James A. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Class-wide academic performance can be increased by overlaying existing instructional and classroom management procedures with supplemental interdependent group-oriented bonus rewards. The bonus reward strategies may be particularly effective for under-motivated, low-performing students. When applying supplemental interdependent group-oriented…
Descriptors: Rewards, Student Motivation, Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management
Regan, Kelley; Evmenova, Anya S.; Hutchison, Amy; Day, Jamie; Stephens, Madelyn; Verbiest, Courtney; Gafurov, Boris – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
The process of analyzing student data to determine an appropriate instructional decision is crucial for student academic growth. This article details how teachers can make data-driven decisions to carefully design writing instruction. Steps are presented for teachers to follow throughout the data driven decision-making process in order to meet…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Decision Making, Essays, Data Analysis
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Lam, Elizabeth A.; Kunkel, Amy K.; McKevett, Nicole M.; McMaster, Kristen L. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
With over 70% of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students in the United States scoring below proficiency levels in writing (NCES, 2009), teachers must provide early and effective writing intervention to accelerate students' writing skills to meet grade-level standards. In this paper, we provide teachers with a theoretical framework to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Standards, Writing Processes
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Bouck, Emily C.; Anderson, Rubia D.; Long, Holly; Sprick, Jessica – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Manipulative-based instructional sequences--including both concrete and virtual manipulative instructional sequences--are evidence-based or research-based mathematical interventions for students with disabilities. However, as options for manipulative-based instructional sequences increase, educators need support in deciding the best approach. In…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Manipulative Materials, Teaching Methods, Students with Disabilities
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