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Meadan, Hedda; Monda-Amaya, Lisa – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2008
When students are struggling to be successful in the general classroom, collaborative efforts should include planning for academic and social needs. Students with disabilities may display significant social difficulties such as establishing friendships or feelings of isolation and loneliness. Because peer relationships in childhood play a…
Descriptors: Mild Disabilities, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship, Peer Acceptance
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Smith, Robin M. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2006
This paper suggests ways in which to look at textbooks in terms of how they socially construct students with disabilities who receive special education services. Although students with developmental disabilities were not included in most of these texts, the treatment of students with mild disabilities revealed varied attitudes towards disability.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Textbooks, Mild Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities
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Johnson, Lawrence J.; And Others – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1993
Discusses the unique problems of accommodating the needs of mildly handicapped students in rural schools and the importance of collegial support in overcoming these problems. Describes peer collaboration, a method of facilitating collegial support and mutual problem solving. Summarizes research evaluating the effectiveness of peer collaboration.…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Wolery, Mark – 1992
Thirteen studies were conducted that focused on whether preschool and elementary school students with mild and moderate disabilities learned target and non-target behaviors when two types of instructional manipulations were made to direct instructional trial sequences. In one type, the related, non-target behaviors were presented during…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Span, Cues, Educational Strategies
Werts, Margaret Gessler; And Others – 1991
Designed to be used by practicing teachers, students who are learning to become teachers, and faculty members who instruct such students, this manual describes an instructional manipulation for teaching children with mild disabilities that increases opportunities for learning through the addition of extra information. The technique described uses…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback
Holcombe-Ligon, Ariane; And Others – 1992
Designed to be used by practicing teachers, students who are learning to become teachers, and faculty members who instruct such students, this manual describes how to use attending cues and responses to help children with mild disabilities attend to the important aspects of instructional activities, and how to use attending cues and responses to…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Span, Cues, Educational Strategies