This study explores how students' thinking styles are related to their engagement, by administering the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II and the Student Engagement Scale to 225 deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) school students in mainland China. Results show that, among all participants, those with Type I styles (i.e., more creativity-generating,…

Although school administrators have tried to find interventions for students with varying amounts of absenteeism, students with disabilities (SwD) continue to be a subgroup of students who struggle with chronic absenteeism. The purpose of this study was to determine local administrators' perspectives on why SwD are more prone to chronic…

While applying a qualitative phenomenological approach, this study determines the perspectives of college freshmen students with disabilities as to what reasons can make them at high risk for early departure. This study demonstrates that respondents acknowledge the reasons that can make them drop out of college are: performance pressure; stress…

The focus of this study centered on the lack of achievement among students who receive special education services and the general population. This achievement gap has been identified at the federal and state levels since 1965 and countless laws and initiatives have attempted to ensure equality in the education of our youth. Professional Learning…

Alternative educational settings are serving students with emotional disabilities (ED) at an increasing rate; however, there a paucity of research examining the effectiveness of these programs. A review of the existing literature targeting students with problematic behaviors, supports the use of a positive, preventative, proactive, and systematic…

The rate of disabled individuals is quite high in Kazakhstan. It is a fact that people with disabilities also have problems related to education and work, as well as the problems they face in social life. With the psychological support to be provided in the fields of education, the problems of the disabled individuals can be minimized, the…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the start of the academic year in September 2020 was a unique time for those transitioning to a new school. This study aimed to explore the experiences of parents who supported autistic children making a range of different school transitions in 2020. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 13 parents of…

This article considers implications for partnership working across the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) system in England, at a time when a long-overdue SEND Review is imminent and the SEND Code of Practice 2015 is awaiting a significant overhaul. It highlights the role local policy actors occupy within this system, as the…

A team of systematic reviewers successfully completed a government-commissioned review of 'what works to improve post-school outcomes for youth with disabilities' in 2012. Despite its success, interviews with 10 review team members revealed dissatisfaction with the process and indifference to its outcomes. The purpose of our analysis was to…

Special educators serve a diverse population of students with unique strengths and needs, and adaptive interventions that account for individual differences before and during the intervention are an important tool to moving the field toward more individualized practices. The purpose of this article is to detail the conceptualization and…

Fluency in math facts and procedures is critical for math achievement overall and often challenging for students with emotional and behavioral disorders to develop. This article describes how to implement two complementary and evidence-based practice strategies, incremental rehearsal and Cover-Copy-Compare, to build declarative and procedural…

Students with extensive support needs often require intensive individualized instruction across domains. Research suggests that students with extensive support needs can achieve greater independence when evidence-based practices are used to teach independent transitioning skills. This study investigated the effects of video self-modeling (VSM) and…

The purpose of this article is to describe what has been learned over the past 20 years of research on general early childhood preservice teachers' attitudes toward inclusion. An extensive literature review was conducted to critically examine the purposes that guided the reviewed studies, the methods used to measure preservice teachers' attitudes…

Postsecondary education is one of the targeted outcomes for students with disabilities; however, few aspiring students with disabilities attend college, and fewer complete a degree program. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the perspectives of five undergraduate students with disabilities who attended college in the United…

Five days after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in "Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in "M.C. v. Antelope Valley Union High School District." This important decision involved a student who was being served under the Individuals with…