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Bruck, Susan; Webster, Amanda A.; Clark, Trevor – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2022
Students on the autism spectrum often require support to navigate transitions from one educational setting to another. This study examined stakeholder perceptions about the transition supports that educators employ to support students on the autism spectrum to transition from one school setting to another. A non-matched Australia-wide sample of…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Martin, Tara; Dixon, Roselyn; Verenikina, Irina; Costley, Debra – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are increasingly being educated in mainstream classroom environments. Commonly students commence their education in a segregated setting, transitioning to mainstream education after a process of skills development. For each student, transition is a unique and complex process. In NSW Australia, Autism…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Griskell, Holly L.; Gámez, Perla B. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study examined the relation between middle school Dual Language Learners' (DLLs'; N = 413; M age = 11.66 years old; 87.1% Latino; female = 234, male = 179) reading comprehension skills and their teachers' (N = 32; M age = 36.53 years; 81.3% Caucasian; female = 27, male = 5) questioning practices across the school year. This study also…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Reading Comprehension, Questioning Techniques, Correlation
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Ergin, Emel; Bakkaloglu, Hatice – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
In this study, in-classroom transitions in inclusive preschools in Turkey were examined. The study, which was conducted with the descriptive model, was carried out with 30 preschool teachers and 30 children with special needs (CWSN) and 30 children without special needs from these teachers' classes. In order to collect data, Information Form and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Special Needs Students
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Cumming, Therese M.; Strnadová, Iva – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2017
The implementation of a transition model, the flexible integration model, was investigated in a school in Sydney, Australia, using an exploratory single case study design (Rowley, 2002). It is a person-centred model designed to assist students in transitioning from a special school for students with emotional and behavioural disabilities to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Mainstreaming, Transitional Programs
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Tones, Megan; Pillay, Hitendra; Carrington, Suzanne; Chandra, Subhas; Duke, Jennifer; Joseph, Rukh Mani – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2017
This article reports on a multi-method study of the ways in which special and mainstream schools support the educational needs of children with disabilities in Fiji. The aims of the study were: (1) to identify capacity and functions of special schools to support inclusive mainstream schools for children with disabilities; and (2) to explore the…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Inclusion, Foreign Countries, Mainstreaming
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Mulat, Mekonnen; Lehtomäki, Elina; Savolainen, Hannu – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2019
This study was done to examine the transition of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) and hearing students from the first cycle (Grade 4) to the second cycle (Grade 5) of primary education in Ethiopia. Academic achievement and self-concept were measured longitudinally with 103 DHH and hearing students. Participants were selected from three different…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Concept, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
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Dewilde, Joke; Skrefsrud, Thor-André – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
The development of an inclusive pedagogy takes on new urgency in Norwegian schools as the student body has become increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse. Traditionally, the Norwegian school has been dominated by homogenising and assimilating discourses, whereas alternative voices have been situated at the margins. In response to this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mainstreaming, Ethnography, Student Diversity
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Corrigan, Emma – British Journal of Special Education, 2014
This study, by Emma Corrigan of the Plymouth Excellence Cluster and Community Psychology Service, explores the use of person centred planning (PCP) in supporting young people who have experienced school exclusion, in their transition and re-integration to mainstream settings. Young people of different ages participated in the PCP process and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Educational Change, Transitional Programs
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Carrascal, Silvia; Rodríguez, Yolanda García – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Nowadays, inclusive schools should be characterized by a high level of commitment in teacher training. To achieve this goal, teachers should be trained in teaching competences in contexts of a great diversity. Their task will be to teach intellectually disabled students by adapting the educational contents through the use of educational resources.…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Inclusion, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Education
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Gunasekera, Sashya; Houghton, Stephen; Glasgow, Kenneth; Boyle, Christopher – Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2014
Setting clear achievable goals that enhance reputational status has been shown to direct the energies of adolescents into socially conforming or non-conforming activities. It appears to be the case that following transition from Intensive English Centres (IECs) into mainstream schooling, students from African refugee backgrounds experience…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Social Behavior, Goal Orientation
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Prior, Susan – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2013
"Twice exceptional" is one of the terms used to describe students who have giftedness and a disability. This is a small heterogeneous population of individual learners who are underserved in special, gifted, and mainstream education settings. Despite the availability of research on transition for students with disabilities, there is…
Descriptors: Gifted Disabled, Transitional Programs, Literature Reviews, Special Education
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Fortuna, Ron – Support for Learning, 2014
The transition from the primary to the secondary phase in education can be a pivotal moment for many students, but for students who have autism, their difficulties with socialisation and emotional regulation can make this time period especially challenging. This article explores the experiences of key stakeholders regarding the issue of students…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Mainstreaming, Elementary School Students
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Villeneuve, Michelle; Chatenoud, Celine; Hutchinson, Nancy L.; Minnes, Patricia; Perry, Adrienne; Dionne, Carmen; Frankel, Elaine B.; Isaacs, Barry; Loh, Alvin; Versnel, Joan; Weiss, Jonathan – Canadian Journal of Education, 2013
Despite recognition of the importance of parent involvement to enable meaningful inclusion of young children with developmental disabilities in education contexts, few Canadian studies have reported how parents experience this collaboration. Recent research suggests that the transition process is critical to the early school experiences of…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Foreign Countries, Developmental Disabilities, Early Intervention
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Dillon, Gayle Victoria; Underwood, Jean D. M. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2012
Transferring from mainstream primary to secondary school can be especially problematic for children with an autism spectrum disorder. Two groups of parents (nine pretransition and six posttransition parents) contributed to this 15-month-long study. Perceptions of the pretransition group were captured through focus groups and in-depth interviews at…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Autism, Focus Groups, Peer Acceptance
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