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Zimmerman, Kathleen N.; Ledford, Jennifer R. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2017
Social narratives (e.g., Social Stories™) are common antecedent-based interventions promoted for the purposes of improving prosocial behaviors and reducing challenging behavior for children with and without disabilities. Although they are commonly prescribed and used, their effectiveness has almost exclusively been assessed for children with…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Personal Narratives, Intervention
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Coleman, Laurence J. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2014
The paper argues that educators of the gifted have overlooked important evidence on the power of special environments because of our habit of considering cognitive outcomes and an outsider view of evidence as the standard for judging the benefits of special environments. The author proposes that social context be used as a construct to help…
Descriptors: Special Education, Gifted, Social Environment, Educational Environment