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Jessica Arnold; Susan Hayes; Elizabeth Zagata – WestEd, 2025
Despite decades of tenacious advocacy and improvement efforts to expand and enshrine rights for students with disabilities, many students with individualized education programs (IEPs) still lack access to high-quality, effective learning opportunities. This can be due to a range of factors, including low expectations, exclusion from general…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Equal Education, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Nieminen, Juuso Henrik – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
This study examines the underlying mechanisms of ableism and disablism in the assessment of student learning in higher education. Globally, higher education institutions rely strongly on assessment accommodations (e.g., extra time in tests) to ensure disabled students' participation in assessment. This isĀ also the case in Finland. Even though…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Bias, College Students, Students with Disabilities
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McClure, Erica B.; Burt, Jonathan L. – Beyond Behavior, 2023
Functional communication training (FCT) is a strategy to address problem behavior for students with various disabilities that is supported by a broad evidence base. Despite this support, multiple factors continue to dissuade educators from utilizing FCT in their classrooms. This article outlines the process of developing and implementing FCT plans…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Students with Disabilities, Intervention, Evidence Based Practice
Tessie Rose Bailey; Zachary Weingarten – National Center on Intensive Intervention, 2022
The 2017 Supreme Court decision "Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District" highlighted the importance of monitoring students' progress toward appropriately challenging individualized educational program (IEP) annual goals and making changes to students' educational programs when needed. The process for setting an IEP goal should be…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Educational Quality, Individualized Education Programs, Court Litigation
Mari Quanbeck; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Martha L. Thurlow – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2023
In the years since the 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) placed a 1.0% cap for states on participation in the alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS), states have worked hard to navigate the new restrictions on participation in…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Alternative Assessment
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Muller, Kristen; Brady, Nancy C.; Fleming, Kandace K. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate and compare alternative modalities and stimuli used to measure receptive vocabulary skills in autistic children who are minimally verbal. This study systematically compared participants' outcomes on three different receptive vocabulary assessment conditions: a low-tech assessment that used a stimulus…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children
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Anderson, Laura K. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2022
Students with intellectual disabilities are among the least likely students to spend a significant amount of time in general education classrooms. When they are included, they may spend their time on non-academic learning experiences. Universal Design for Learning is a lesson planning framework that can guide teachers in inclusive lesson planning.…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Inclusion, Access to Education
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Freiermuth, Mark R.; Tsunoda, Angela Karsten; Oliveira, Diego; Muramoto, Erica Maria; Nagatani, Luzinete; Nakajima, Yukiko – School Psychology International, 2023
This study discusses the disparity in numbers between Japanese children and their Brazilian immigrant peers concerning placement in Japanese special education classes. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 stakeholders including Japanese nationals and Brazilian immigrants to see if there were any ways to explain the larger numbers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Special Education, Students with Disabilities
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Pletcher, Bethanie; Robertson, Phyllis; Sullivan, Maureen – Reading Horizons, 2019
The purpose of this study was to explore the operations of a sample of university-based reading clinics in order to better understand their functions and practices and to inform the planning for the authors' own clinic. This study was carried out in two phases. In Phase I, the authors conducted Internet searches and contacted knowledgeable…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, College Faculty