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Peer reviewedFishman, Robin; Stelk, Wayne; Clark, Hewitt B. – Preventing School Failure, 1997
Describes the support services offered by MENTOR, a national provider of treatment foster care services for children and adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral disabilities. MENTOR provides individualized residential services in host homes. The trained host/caregiver also provides both in- and out-of-the-classroom school assistance that…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Foster Care
Eiserman, William D.; And Others – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1987
Results from 13 studies on tutorial programs for social acceptance and academic achievement showed significant gains when involving educable mentally retarded, learning disabled, and behaviorally disordered elementary students as tutors. The studies involved cross-age and peer tutoring roles in both resource tutoring and total class tutoring…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedScruggs, Thomas E.; Osguthorpe, Russell T. – Psychology in the Schools, 1986
Compared cross-age and peer tutoring interventions conducted within special education settings. In Experiment 1, learning disabled (LD) and behaviorally disordered (BD) students tutored younger LD and BD students. In Experiment 2, same-age LD and BD students alternated tutor and tutee roles. In both experiments, tutors and tutees exhibited…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Children, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedStrayhorn, Joseph M., Jr.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1993
This article suggests that, because a hostile environment is associated with the development of mental and behavioral disorders, a restructuring of the schools to incorporate ongoing nurturing and academic training of younger students by older students would develop important psychological skills and thereby prevent mental and behavioral…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Peer reviewedMaheady, Larry; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1988
Fourteen mildly handicapped (learning-disabled or behavior-disordered) and 36 nondisabled students in grade 10 social studies classrooms participated in a classwide peer tutoring program. Performance on weekly tests was significantly improved; 60 percent of all students earned "A" grades, and failing grades were virtually eliminated. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Grade 10, High Schools
Peer reviewedMiller, Sidney R.; And Others – Preventing School Failure, 1995
This article describes a federally funded model self-determination project for students with severe emotional disabilities/behavioral disorders (SED/BD). The project promotes self-determination through instruction in problem solving, self-assertiveness, and self-management skills, and utilizes cross-age peer tutoring involving college students…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Behavior Disorders, College Students, Cross Age Teaching
