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Mattison, Richard E. – Behavioral Disorders, 2015
This study of 182 secondary special education students with emotional and/or behavioral disorders investigated their classification by their school districts, in particular how well they were distinguished and represented by their federal categories. The districts used four classification groups (emotional disturbance, other health impairment…
Descriptors: Special Education, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, School Districts
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Fonteine, H.; Zijlstra, H. P.; Vlaskamp, C. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Background: Because of the complexity of the problems that affect children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD), communication between parents and teachers at special educational centres is indispensable. Logs are widely used in the Netherlands although only little is known about the effectiveness and efficiency of…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Severe Mental Retardation, Special Education, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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Dunlap, Joanna C.; Sobel, Donna; Sands, Deanna I. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2007
Online education has skyrocketed in popularity. Every year, more universities are starting online programs. This increase is mostly due to institutional economics, and the demands of students who face a number of obstacles that make the on-campus format inconvenient. The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center is no different.…
Descriptors: Sciences, Multiple Disabilities, Educational Strategies, Methods Courses
Malloy, Peggy; Killoran, John – National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness, 2007
Although the term deaf-blind implies a complete absence of hearing and sight, in reality, it refers to children with varying degrees of vision and hearing losses. The type and severity differ from child to child. The key feature of deaf-blindness is that the combination of losses limits access to auditory and visual information. Children with…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Children, Etiology, Classification
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2014
This is the 32nd Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2010. Section 664(d) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (P.L. 108-446), as reauthorized in 2004, requires that the Department of Education report annually on the progress made toward the provision of a free…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Disabilities, Equal Education
Alberta Education, 2009
Alberta Education provides programming support and funding to school authorities to develop and implement special education programming for ECS children and students in grades 1 to 12. "Special Education Coding Criteria 2009/2010" outlines criteria within specific categories to help school authorities identify those children and students…
Descriptors: Individualized Programs, Criteria, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment
Chambers, Jay G.; Perez, Maria; Socias, Miguel; Shkolnik, Jamie; Esra, Phil – American Institutes for Research, 2004
Because of the limitations of the traditional approaches to classifying a child's characteristics, a number of authors have proposed to describe children on the basis of a defined set of functional skills or abilities rather than by etiological or deficit category (Bailey et al. (1993); Holt (1957); Linden (1963)). Building on this earlier work,…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Disabilities, Classification, Student Characteristics
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2011
This is the 30th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2008. Section 664(d) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), as reauthorized in 2004, requires that the Department of Education report annually on the progress made toward the provision of a free appropriate…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Disabilities, Equal Education