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Impact of Cover, Copy, and Compare on Fluency Outcomes for Students with Disabilities and Math Deficits: A Review of the Literature
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Stocker, James D., Jr.; Kubina, Richard M., Jr. – Preventing School Failure, 2017
Fluency, a combination of response accuracy and speed, enables students to work efficiently through academic tasks. Students with disabilities and math deficits often struggle to learn math facts fluently. Although issues with fluency frequently coexist with a disability, problems gaining fluency also stem from a lack of practice and appropriate…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Intervention
Summary of Performance: Bridging the Transition from High School to Post-Secondary Education for Students with SLD
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Southward, Julie D.; Davis, Mariya T. – Preventing School Failure, 2020
Transition for students with disabilities has been the focus of educational policies for several decades. Still, students with disabilities, including those with a specific learning disability (SLD), continue to experience difficulties transitioning to post-school environments, particularly post-secondary education (PSE). The Individuals with…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Postsecondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
Collaborative Co-Teaching Models and Specially Designed Instruction in Secondary Education: A New Inclusive Consultation Model
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DeMartino, Pamela; Specht, Philip – Preventing School Failure, 2018
Presented in this article are the rationale and construct of a new consultative teaching model for the inclusive instruction of students with learning disabilities in secondary schools. The inclusive consultation model (ICM) is a proposed alternative to traditional co-teaching models as described in the extant literature. In recognition of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Team Teaching, Learning Disabilities, Inclusion
Response to Intervention: Where It Came from and Where It's Going
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Preston, Angela I.; Wood, Charles L.; Stecker, Pamela M. – Preventing School Failure, 2016
Response to intervention (RTI) emerged from the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, but the roots of RTI are found embedded within the history of the field of learning disabilities (LD) as well as other sources of influence. In what follows, we provide a brief history of LD and highlight the connection between…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Disabilities
Accessing the Common Core Standards for Students with Learning Disabilities: Strategies for Writing Standards-Based IEP Goals
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Caruana, Vicki – Preventing School Failure, 2015
Since the reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 2004, standards-based individualized education plans (IEPs) have been an expectation for serving students with disabilities in the K-12 public school setting. Nearly a decade after the mandates calling for standards-based IEPs, special educators still struggle…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, State Standards, Writing Strategies, Individualized Education Programs
Educational Methodologies: Legal and Practical Considerations.
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Katsiyannis, Antonis; Maag, John W. – Preventing School Failure, 2001
This article addresses issues surrounding judicial involvement in mandating educational methodologies. It reviews court rulings affecting services for students with autism, hearing impairments and communication disorders, visual impairments, and learning disabilities, and concludes judicial review has been relatively limited and confined to…
Descriptors: Autism, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Disabilities