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Kerri L. Clopton; Stephanie L. Schmitz; Nicole R. Skaar; Susan Larson Etscheidt – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
The IDEA requires schools to evaluate and provide services to students who have a mental health issue that is deemed an educational disability or a mental health issue that is comorbid with an educational disability. Etscheidt and colleagues (this issue) propose a six component approach to securing school-based mental health services for students…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Preschool Children, Grade 5, Mental Health
Weingarten, Zachary; Zumeta Edmonds, Rebecca; Arden, Sarah – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
A large body of research suggests that families' engagement in their children's education is a crucial factor in promoting school success for children and youth. Family engagement in school is associated with improved academic achievement and reductions in social and behavioral problems. Research also suggests that collaboration between schools…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Family Involvement
Yell, Mitchell L.; Collins, James; Kumpiene, Gerda; Bateman, David – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
This article begins by describing a scenario in which a fourth-grade learning disabled student's individualized education program (IEP) team came together to develop his IEP and in so doing made a number of procedural and substantive errors. The purpose of this article is to examine the procedural and substantive requirements of the Individuals…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Students with Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Capin, Philip; Vaughn, Sharon – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2017
Significant numbers of adolescents and young adults do not adequately understand complex texts, impeding their school success, access to postsecondary learning, and opportunities within an increasingly competitive work environment. National data (National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP], 2015) have shown improvements among fourth- and…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Social Studies, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension
Harris, Karen R.; Graham, Steve; Aitken, A. Angelique; Barkel, Ashley; Houston, Julia; Ray, Amber – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2017
Students with disabilities often find writing extremely challenging (Harris & Graham, 2016). Special educators can, however, promote tremendous gains in students' ability to write by understanding common challenges students face and mastering specific teaching techniques. Students' writing success depends on reducing how much attention and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Spelling
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas; Malone, Amelia S. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2017
This article describes the Taxonomy of Intervention Intensity, which articulates seven principles for evaluating and building intervention intensity based upon research. The Taxonomy's seven dimensions of intensity are strength, dosage, alignment, attention to transfer, comprehensiveness, behavioral support, and individualization (see Table 1). In…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Difficulty Level
Santoro, Lana Edwards; Baker, Scott K.; Fien, Hank; Smith, Jean Louise M.; Chard, David J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2016
The use of informational texts in the elementary grades provides a context for helping students develop content understanding and domain knowledge across a wide range of subject matter. Reading informational text also provides students with the language of thought, foundational vocabulary that can be connected to other words, and technical content…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level
Ciullo, Stephen – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2015
Social studies instruction in upper elementary school (Grades 3-5) is important for building foundational content knowledge to equip students for the secondary school curriculum. Due to numerous school initiatives and demands on the time of teachers, social studies instruction can play second fiddle to reading and mathematics instruction, which…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Social Studies, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
Fraser, Dawn W. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2013
Promoting independence in all students is one important part of education. It can be difficult for educators to identify meaningful tasks that students with severe disabilities can complete with full independence. By incorporating visual supports into a student's independent work, the teacher is providing the student with an opportunity to…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Academic Standards, State Standards, Disabilities
Jenkins, Amelia A.; Yoshimura, Jodi – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2010
Today's teachers face many challenges, and one of their most challenging tasks is to meet the needs of and support the success of a diverse group of students, including those with disabilities. How confident are elementary teachers in meeting the needs of the students with disabilities in their general education classes? In areas of low…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Special Education, Special Needs Students
Bateman, David F.; Jones, Marni Gail – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2010
This article presents a due process hearing case study of a mother who contended that his son, D.J., has been denied of a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) of his School District after being suspended from school. D.J., an elementary student, had been described as hyperactive, inattentive, defiant, and often volatile. He was identified…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Behavior Problems, Civil Rights, Compensatory Education
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2009
With the last reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, also known as No Child Left Behind or NCLB), special education research exerted a major influence on general education. Even so, the academic outcomes of students with learning disabilities (LD), who are the…
Descriptors: Intervention, General Education, Federal Legislation, Learning Disabilities
Mahdavi, Jennifer N.; Beebe-Frankenberger, Margaret E. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2009
Using collaborative teamwork to build unique response-to-intervention (RTI) systems responsive to the needs and strengths within their separate schools and communities, two Montana elementary schools forged a trail for other schools. Each school encountered different obstacles along the way as well as distinctive ways of defining success. How can…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Pilot Projects, Academic Failure, Validity
Leko, Melinda M.; Brownell, Mary T. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2009
Bill and Karen are special education teachers who have entirely different knowledge and skill profiles. Bill is a special educator with 20 years of experience. He teaches reading to third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students in a high-poverty elementary school resource classroom. His school is currently engaging in a schoolwide Reading First effort…
Descriptors: Reading, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Special Education Teachers
Bateman, David F. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2008
Chris resides with his parents and attends school in an unnamed district ("the District"). During the second half of second grade, Chris started to have problems with reading and written expression. The District evaluated Chris and did not find problems significant enough to identify him as having a learning disability. At about the same time his…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Learning Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Grade 4
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