This case study describes the culturally responsive instruction of one special education teacher with Latino English language learners (ELLs) with learning disabilities in an urban elementary school setting. This study was situated in a social constructivist research based framework. In investigating this instruction with ELLs, this study focused…

This article reports on a qualitative study of the school experiences of adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the context of quantitative research on teacher attitudes and practices, adolescent self-appraisals, and social and family relationships. Twelve adolescents with ADHD participated in in-depth, semistructured…

An interview with B. Slingerland, an educator with over 50 years experience with specific language disabled students, traces her early work in the field, and reviews her theories about teaching language disabled children, including her emphasis on intrinsic motivation rather than behavior modification and her reluctance to receive government…