Some of her fieldwork experience has involved parent - coaching, reunification of at - risk families, early intervention for blind children, Applied Behavior Analysis with children and adolescents with developmental delays / disorders, and as an academic clinician for
students with learning disabilities in public schools.
ATIS, New Teachers» Conference, Mentor, New York — 2000, 2001 and 2002 International Dyslexia Association, Parent Conference, Supporting
Students with Learning Disabilities in New York's Independent Schools, Panelist, New York — 2005 CAIS, All About Audacity, Instructor, Connecticut — 2006 Recipient of the Southwind Teaching Award — 2007
Adapted lessons for both advanced students by challenging and encouraging critical thinking and
students with learning disabilities in the regular classroom by translating and breaking down the concepts in various
This study is designed as a set of four case studies to investigate writing instruction in bilingual special education settings and the compositions of
students with learning disabilities in those settings.
Students with learning disabilities in basic reading have difficulty understanding the relationship between letters and sounds.
This article from the NCTM journal Teaching Children Mathematics explains the foundations underlying the process of instructional differentiation for
students with learning disabilities in mathematics.
Learn more about these tests and how they can serve
students with learning disabilities in particular with this review.
Bob Cunningham is Head of School at The Robert Louis Stevenson School in New York City, which serve
students with learning disabilities in kindergarten through eighth grade.
On the contrary, I worked many years with
students with learning disabilities in a middle and high school resource situation, and one of the objectives was always to help students master regular class content.
There are approximately 3 million
students with learning disabilities in the United States (U.S. Department of Education, 2005).
Mindful consideration for preparing preservice teachers to select, adopt, implement, and assess technology effectively is critical to promoting the educational opportunities of
students with learning disabilities in inclusive classrooms.
The practice of teaching
students with learning disabilities in general education classrooms is commonly referred to as inclusion, part of the least restrictive environment mandate included in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA Reathorization, 2004).
To learn more about this study and its implications for practice, refer to Fuchs, Douglas, Fuchs, Lynn S., Mathes, Patricia G., and Martinez, Elizabeth A. «Preliminary Evidence on the Social Standing of
Students with Learning Disabilities in PALS and No - PALS Classrooms,» Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 17, no. 4 (November 2002): 205 - 215.
After I teach for several years, I still plan on pursuing a doctorate in special education to develop interventions for
students with learning disabilities in the science classroom.
FOR GIRLS» SCHOOLS OR SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR GIRLS This lesson is for students in middle grades and
students with learning disabilities in higher grades.
Students with learning disabilities in basic reading have difficulty understanding the relationship between letters and sounds.
Not exact matches
A mom
in Texas was devastated to
learn that her son's teachers mocked
students with disabilities, and made her son one of their main targets.
It's
in my role as a mother that I develop an expertise
in twice exceptional or gifted
students with learning disabilities.
In urban central cities, funding levels per
student tend to be at least average, but
student needs (e.g. for special education for
students with learning disabilities and for general support for very poor
students such as homeless
students) tend to be much greater.
Articles on Science and
Disability, 1970s Correspondence, 1970s Articles on Science and
Disability, 1980s Conferences on Science and
Disability, 1980s Correspondence, 1980s Articles on Science and
Disability, 1990s Conferences on Science and
Disability, 1990s Correspondence, 1990s Project Proposals (funded) on Science and
Disability, 1990s Articles on Science and
Disability, 2000s Conferences on Science and
Disability, 2000s Correspondence, 2000s AAAS Annual Meeting - Barrier Free, 1976 A Disgn for Utilizing Successful Disabled Scientists as Role Models - Final Report, 1977 - 1978 Utilization of Scientific Professional Society Placement Services - Final Report, 1978 - 1980 Within Reach: Out of School Opportunities for Youth - A Guide, 1981 Appropriate Technology: Its Design and Use by Disabled People, Workshop, Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 20, 1984 Appropriate Technology Workshop Papers, Nov. 20, 1984 Linkages Project meeting, Feb. 11, 1986 China Fund for the Handicapped: Deng Pufang, US Visit, Oct. 10,1987 Teaching Science and Mathematics to
Students with Learning Disabilities: Challenges and Resources (NSF Grant 9552586), Jan. 1990 Recruitment and Retention of
Students and Faculty
with Disabilities in Schools of Engineering (NSF Grant EID 9101122), 1990 - 1995 Agenda for Access: Scientists and Engineers
with Disabilities, Oct. 1991 High School, High Tech, 1993 Model Undergraduate Project for the Disabled: A Study of Issues involved
in underrepresentation (NSF Grand HRD 9054022), Jan. 31, 1994 AAAS - NASA ACCESS - Summer internship program, 1996 - 1997 AAAS - National Easter Seals Society ACCESS Science, 1996 - 1998 ENTRY POINT!
«Some
students with learning disabilities go to college, and they want to manage on their own,» says Karla McGregor, a professor
in the UI Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and lead author of the study.
McGregor plans to continue investigating the specific types of
learning challenges
students with learning disabilities face
in higher education.
The study, «The University Experiences of
Students with Learning Disabilities,» was published May 17, 2016 online
in Learning Disabilities Research & Practice.
Collin R. Diedrich is a postdoc at the University of Pittsburgh
in Pennsylvania and a professional speaker and advocate for
students with learning disabilities.
The researchers chose two high schools
in two different school districts, focusing on five
students that were
in 10th or 11th grade, who were identified
with a specific
learning disability and required modifications and accommodations
in their classrooms.
In this study, published recently in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Laura Bray, assistant professor of education, explored how educators wrote, used and conceptualized the role of IEPs for students with specific learning disabilities within inclusive general education setting
In this study, published recently
in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Laura Bray, assistant professor of education, explored how educators wrote, used and conceptualized the role of IEPs for students with specific learning disabilities within inclusive general education setting
in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Laura Bray, assistant professor of education, explored how educators wrote, used and conceptualized the role of IEPs for
students with specific
learning disabilities within inclusive general education settings.
Scientists have chronicled the impact of negative expectations
in settings where they occur naturally, such as classrooms that «track»
students from early youth and
in society's treatment of stigmatized groups such as racial minorities, the poor, the elderly, the homeless, convicts and children
with learning disabilities.
The results are especially important given that
students with learning disabilities and English language learners have been historically marginalized
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
The researchers found that
students with intellectual
disability who participated
in four years of persistent, specialized instruction successfully
learned to read at a first - grade level or higher.
She began her career
in 1972, teaching
students with learning disabilities.
52
students, between the ages 7 — 17, from a school
with children who have
learning disabilities, many also
with an ADHD diagnoses, participated
in the study.
It grows
in part because
students enrolled
in district schools are considerably more likely to be classified as having a specific
learning disability in early elementary grades than are
students enrolled
in charter schools, and also because
students without
disabilities are more likely to enter charters
in non-gateway grades than are
students with disabilities.
Students with IDs often have a
learning disability or anxiety disorder that needs to be addressed
in the classroom.
Most of the
students in this book, either through their own drivenness or through the interventions of adults — either parents, teachers, or related services people, therapists and so forth — develop the strategies they needed to be successful: to be able to access education at a high level; to know how to handle the heavy reading load when they read at a very low rate; to
learn how to manage pain, which was the case
with one of the
students in the book who has chronic pain due to his physical
disabilities; or to
learn how to manage anxiety, which is the case of two of the people
in the book.
2012 — 2016 Co-Principal Investigator: Center for Research
in Online
Learning for
Students with Disabilities Funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.
Through partnering
with a preschool special ed class, fifth - grade
students learned and taught their community about developmental
disabilities, enhancing their own empathy
in the process.
CAST
in collaboration
with the University of Kansas and the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, conducts research on how K - 12 online
learning impacts the access, participation, and progress of
students with disabilities.
Working
with a
student with a
learning disability does not affect a teacher's ability to read, nor does teaching a
student with mental retardation affect one's ability to think
in abstract terms.
Students with learning disabilities or are on the autistic spectrum are more successful when they know what to expect each day
in a classroom.
Not far away,
in another affluent, suburban school district
in Montclair, New Jersey, minutes from an August meeting show the board of education approved spending nearly $ 5 million this year for tuition payments — an average of $ 63,000 per
student — on «out - of - district placements» for 79
students with a variety of classifications, including
learning disabilities and «other health impairment.»
In 2005, we began a new program to for Miami - Dade Public Schools to introduce
students with autism,
learning disabilities, and visual, physical, language and emotional impairments to dance instruction by developing a new and unique dance residency program.
From the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1975 to its more inclusive follow - up
in 1997; from the cry for attention from those lobbying for gifted
students to calls for greater sensitivity to the
learning styles of all
student populations; from the initial proficiency tests of the early»90s to their high - stakes, pass - fail descendants; from the rise of bilingual education
in some parts of the country to its demise
in other regionspublic education has been a veritable vessel of change.
The evidence is persuasive:
students with disabilities can
learn and develop at least as much and often more when they are included
in general education.
We now have a very diverse group of
students in mainstream classes, including gifted
students and others
with learning difficulties or
disabilities.
«I think the most important thing is for principals and teachers to empower themselves by
learning what's
in the law and best practices for
students with disabilities.»
But busy teachers
with 30 other kids
in each class need help, says Kathleen Laundy, a therapist who has worked extensively on identifying
learning disabilities in Connecticut schools and has written a book about school teams that benefit these
students.
The San Francisco Chronicle describes the case of a
student with learning disabilities and an anxiety disorder whose parents «enrolled him
in a $ 30,000 - a-year prep school
in Maine — then sent the bill to their local public school district.»
It is not only
in the academic world where a
student may get precious aid from online
learning; for example, a child
with a speech
disability can get great help from doctors using specific computer programs and overcome his or her
learning disability step by step.
The other study involved giving
students with moderate
learning disabilities a reading
in Microsoft Reader to go through while at home.
Students in cities like Baltimore and Washington, D.C., where the special education systems have operated for long stretches under judicial supervision, can go years
with undiagnosed and untreated
learning disabilities.