Special Education
Editor’s Note
The advent of NCLB has brought new attention to the effort to educate children with disabilities. The articles on this page offer ideas and resources that can help teachers reach every student.—C.T.C.
From Special Ed to Higher Ed
Transition planning for disabled students focuses on advocacy skills
When freshmen visit E. Lynne Golden, the director of the University of Hartford’s program for students with disabilities, she first asks them to identify their disability and describe how it limits their learning. To obtain accommodations from the college for their disability, they need to be able to ask for them, but many students just don’t know how to do it, she says.
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Confronting the Autism Epidemic
New expectations for children with autism means a new role for public schools
Thirty years ago, it was rare to find a student with autism in a public school. When children with severe, unexplained behavioral problems turned up, teachers had little guidance in how to work with them. Many experts assumed these children were retarded. Others even recommended physical punishment to curb disruptive or antisocial behaviors. Continue
Response to Intervention
A new approach to reading instruction aims to catch struggling readers early
It's two weeks before Halloween in Carolyn Callender's first-grade class. After sitting in a circle and reciting the October poem from Maurice Sendak's Chicken Soup with Rice in their scariest voices, 15 youngsters split up into four groups to practice literacy skills. Continue
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