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Direct linkJennifer A. Kurth; Elissa Lockman Turner; Alison L. Zagona; Geonhwa Kim; Roxanne Loyless – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2025
Over 90% of students with complex support needs are taught in self-contained (segregated) special education classrooms for most of their school day, despite accumulating evidence these classrooms are not associated with positive student outcomes. Yet placement in these segregated classrooms persists, in part because of assumptions about the degree…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Self Contained Classrooms, Special Education
Download full textAlison L. Zagona; Jennifer A. Kurth; Elissa Lockman Turner; Jesse Pace; Karrie Shogren; Kirsten Lansey; Matt Jameson; Kristin Burnette; Mary Mansouri; Tyler Hicks; Daria Gerasimova – Grantee Submission, 2022
Students with complex support needs frequently experience restrictive educational placements such as self-contained and separate school classrooms. Given the need to support students with complex support needs to experience positive outcomes and make progress in the general education curriculum, there is a need to investigate the characteristics…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Student Placement, Student Behavior
Alison L. Zagona; Jennifer A. Kurth; Elissa Lockman Turner; Jesse Pace; Karrie Shogren; Kirsten Lansey; Matt Jameson; Kristin Burnette; Mary Mansouri; Tyler Hicks; Daria Gerasimova – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2022
Students with complex support needs frequently experience restrictive educational placements such as self-contained and separate school classrooms. Given the need to support students with complex support needs to experience positive outcomes and make progress in the general education curriculum, there is a need to investigate the characteristics…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Student Placement, Student Behavior
Kurth, Jennifer – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This study investigated practices in self-contained high school classrooms serving students with significant cognitive disability (SCD). Nineteen students and nine teachers across five high schools participated. A time-sampling method was used to describe the ecological, teacher, and student behaviors of these classrooms. Field notes were…
Descriptors: Self Contained Classrooms, High School Students, Severe Intellectual Disability, High School Teachers
