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Peck, Charles A. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 2000
This commentary on the previous article on an interpretive research approach discusses the journey of a researcher from radical behaviorism, to interpretive social science, to an emerging viewpoint in which art more than science is used as a way of seeing issues related to disability, education, and change. (Contains 10 references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Data Interpretation, Disabilities
Ferguson, Dianne L.; Ferguson, Philip M. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 2000
This article discusses how interpretive research can challenge the special education field to think differently about what is already known and to factor in different ways of knowing and different meanings. Three dimensions of interpretive research are explored: "truth" value and accuracy, context and relations, and utility and relevance.…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Data Interpretation, Disabilities

Casto, Glendon; White, Karl R. – Early Education and Development, 1993
Describes a series of 16 longitudinal studies conducted by Utah State University on alternative early intervention programs for disabled children, focusing on the intensity of intervention, the age intervention begins, and parent involvement. Reviews factors that gave rise to the studies, research designs and procedures, and data interpretation.…
Descriptors: Children, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Disabilities