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Center for Public Education, 2020
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that schools assist students with disabilities to develop independent living skills and abilities essential to succeed in most of their life's endeavors. According to the law, each student with a disability must have an individualized education program (IEP), and the IEP must address…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education, Federal Legislation
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McKenney, Elizabeth L. W.; Bristol, Ryan M. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
This study evaluated the impact of performance feedback on nine public educators' level of procedural integrity to Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT) procedures for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Procedural integrity was observed during four phases: no feedback, general feedback, performance feedback, and maintenance, in a multiple…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Feedback (Response)
Beckerle, John R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of the study was to explore the current perceptions of adults who were enrolled in the gifted program of the St. Louis Public Schools in the fall of 1959 or spring of 1960. At this time in history the Cold War was a reality and the U.S. enacted the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) to find talented young people and give them the…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Academically Gifted, Public Schools
CARTER, LAMORE J.; AND OTHERS – 1960
THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF THREE AUDIOVISUAL TECHNIQUES WAS STUDIED WITH MENTALLY RETARDED PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS. THE TECHNIQUES ESPECIALLY DESIGNED TO OVERCOME THE TRAITS OF MENTAL RETARDATES, CONSISTED OF (1) CONVENTIONAL FILM NARRATED BY A TEACHER, (2) UNNARRATED FILM WITH RESPONSES FROM CHILDREN ON THE SOUND TRACK, AND (3) SILENT FILM…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Films, Mild Mental Retardation
PECK, JOHN R.; SEXTON, C. LUCILLE – 1960
THE STUDY SOUGHT TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF INCLUDING THE TRAINABLE CHILD (IQ 25-50 INCLUSIVE, AND BELOW M.A. 8) IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRAM. APPROXIMATELY 27 CHILDREN IN THE TRAINABLE CATEGORY WERE DIVIDED INTO 3 EQUAL GROUPS AND PLACED IN A 2-YEAR CONTROLLED-CLASSROOM PROGRAM AT EACH OF 3 TYPES OF FACILITIES--A TYPICAL CITY ELEMENTARY…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Opportunities, Elementary Schools, Handicapped Children
Woolley, Helen Thompson; Ferris, Elizabeth – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This bulletin is a report of one of those side issues, or by-products, of a piece of scientific work which often proves to be more important than the main issue. When, in 1916, the psychological laboratory of the Vocation Bureau of Cincinnati (Ohio) was given an official position in the public-school system, the first task assigned it was that of…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Observation, Special Schools, Special Classes
Daniels, Lester W.; Campbell, David H. – 1974
Described are the philosophy, goals, and objectives of a secondary special education class for educable mentally retarded students. Listed are unit titles and suggested methods and materials for the following eight program objectives: vocational and occupational development, economic independence, interpersonal relationship, health, leisure…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Educational Philosophy, Exceptional Child Education, Interpersonal Competence
Morse, William C.; And Others – 1964
The study identified themes running through special class programs for the emotionally handicapped, analyzed classroom procedures, and described the teachers' backgrounds, attitudes, and purposes and the students' perceptions of the programs. Initially, 117 public school programs for the emotionally handicapped were located and surveyed by mail;…
Descriptors: Administration, Allied Health Personnel, Classroom Environment, Emotional Disturbances
Foster, Emery M.; Martens, Elise H. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
For the past decade the Office of Education has periodically compiled statistics dealing with special schools and classes for exceptional children. During that time the importance of adjusting instructional procedures to meet the needs of individual boys and girls has been increasingly stressed in the general philosophy of education. Inherent in…
Descriptors: Residential Schools, Teaching Methods, Special Schools, Special Classes