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Peer reviewedForness, Steven R.; Kavale, Kenneth A.; Davanzo, Pablo A. – Behavioral Disorders, 2002
The original authors of an article proposing a new medical model of special education for children with emotional or behavioral disorders respond to comments by considering: (1) the role of psychiatric diagnosis in special education, (2) the relative efficacy of behavioral versus psychopharmacologic treatment, and (3) the nature of…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Clinical Diagnosis, Drug Therapy
Forness, Steven R.; Sweeney, Dwight P.; Wagner, Steven R. – Reaching Today's Youth: The Community Circle of Caring Journal, 1998
Claims that learning strategies and social skills training are likely to be important for most students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, both in regular and special education classrooms. Emphasizes the importance of combining treatment strategies. (MKA)
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Modification, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedForness, Steven R. – Exceptionality, 2001
This article reviews 24 meta-analyses concerned with special education interventions and draws tentative conclusions about the relative power of interventions as determined by magnitude of mean effect size for each. Highest effect sizes were obtained for use of mnemonic strategies, reading comprehension strategies, behavior modification, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Disabilities, Effect Size, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedForness, Steven R. – Behavioral Disorders, 1983
The article describes the development and operation of a psychiatric hospital model school program which provides evaluation and teaching of behaviorally disordered, severely handicapped, and gifted children and adolescents during two months on the basis of six continua, prior to placement in regular or special classrooms. (MC)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education
