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Buysse, Virginia; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1994
Assessment of age, disability severity, developmental status, functional abilities, and behavioral characteristics of 162 children (ages 11 to 102 months) found that children enrolled in inclusive programs were more mildly disabled and functioned at higher levels than counterparts in programs exclusively for children with disabilities.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Chronological Age, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
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Parmenter, Trevor R.; Einfeld, Stewart L.; Tonge, Bruce J.; Dempster, John A. – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 1998
The level of behavior problems in 406 students (ages 4-19) with intellectual disability was compared in "segregated" and "integrated" settings in New South Wales (Australia). A significantly greater number of behavior problems occurred in segregated settings after controlling for age, sex, and range of intellectual disability.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Watson, Judith – British Journal of Special Education, 1999
Considers the potential of social-constructivist ideas of teaching and learning for pupils with learning difficulties from a British perspective. Reports on a study with a class of eight students with moderate learning disabilities studying the local community. Benefits to individual students in the development of conceptual understanding and…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Methods, Foreign Countries
Field, Trudy; Bernal, Ernesto M.; Goertz, Jeanie – Understanding Our Gifted, 2001
Students in a self-contained gifted and talented fifth grade evaluated three major learning activities of the Full Option Science System (FOSS). Students rated the activities very positively and felt the activities had given them greater confidence to work in groups, to be creative, and to strive to accomplish hard tasks as well as developing…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Gifted, Grade 5, Instructional Material Evaluation
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Marvin, Chris; Kasal, Kathleen R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1996
Analysis of videotapes of the signed communication (mostly Signed Exact English) of five preschool children with deafness in a special class found their communications brief and focused on the here-and-now. Topics of conversation were similar to those of nondisabled children. Child-initiated utterances were longer and more semantically diverse…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Deafness, Discourse Analysis
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Butler, Ruth; Marinov-Glassman, Deganit – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
Measures of perceived competence and perceived achievement were administered to 222 Israeli students with either learning disabilities or low achievement in grades 3, 5, and 7. Subjects were either in special schools, in special classes in regular schools, or in regular classes. Perceived competence was highest among younger children and the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Competence, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Mootilal, Anju; Musselman, Carol – 1994
This study examined the social adjustment of adolescents who were deaf and enrolled in segregated (n=39), partially integrated (n=15), and mainstreamed (n=17) settings, comparing them with a control group of students without hearing impairments (n=56). These students in grades 8 to 13 in Ontario, Canada, were administered the Social Activity…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Emotional Adjustment
Narita, Shigeru – 1995
This conference paper describes the use of integrated media-oriented instruction in a self-contained class at Yokohama Municipal Elementary School in Japan. Three students with mild disabilities, in grades 5 and 6, participated in the project. Integrated media (IM) is defined as the linkage of text, sound, video, graphics, and the computer in such…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Stile, Stephen W.; And Others – 1992
This study investigated initial placements, current placements, and stability of placements for 2,643 graduates of special education preschool programs for children (ages 3-4 years) with developmental disabilities from 74 New Mexico school districts during the first 5 years of such programming (1986-87 to 1990-91). Major findings were that 10% of…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities, Early Intervention, Elementary Education
Gilman, David Alan; Sousa-Roy, Pramila – 1989
In order to evaluate the most effective delivery format for providing gifted/talented education, 247 elementary students in gifted programs in Evansville, Indiana, were divided into experimental students, who received instruction in self-contained classrooms of fellow gifted students, and control students, who received instruction in a pull-out…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Delivery Systems, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities
Dyste, Ron; Howard, Robert – 1983
This report presents the administrative procedures adopted by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges in March 1983 to standardize the calculation of noninstructional costs supported from revenues generated by average daily attendance (ADA) in special classes for disabled students. First, background information is provided,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Disabilities, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Eiserman, William D.; Osguthorpe, Russell T. – 1986
The second year of a 2-year study on the benefits of using handicapped students to tutor nonhandicapped peers focused on the effects of having all students in a special class tutor simultaneously (the total class tutoring method). Forty intellectually handicapped students (IQs ranging from 50 to 75) tutored 60 nonhandicapped agemates in basic sign…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Interaction Process Analysis
Wolfe, David; Rawlings, Brenda W. – 1986
Postsecondary options for hard of hearing and deaf students are identified, and practical suggestions are offered for students, faculty, and service providers. In addition to providing facts about hearing loss and the effects of age of onset of hearing loss, information is provided on communication methods, special support services, and resources.…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Ancillary School Services, College Students, Deaf Interpreting
Griffin, Gary – 1986
This paper uses research and propositions to argue that staff development funds provided under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation Improvement Act of 1981 be used to integrate understanding of the special needs and prospects of and for Chapter 1 students throughout a school. Rather than isolate staff development opportunities within a Chapter…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Coordination, Disadvantaged
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. for Exceptional Children. – 1988
This handbook provides North Carolina school units with an explanation of service delivery components for academically gifted students and an overview of a variety of program models for gifted education. The program options include the following: enrichment in the classroom with the consultant-teacher, the Triad Model, resource room/pull-out,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Classroom Techniques, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
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