Instruction And Management E506: Alcohol and Other Drug Use by Adolescents With Disabilities (1991) E529: Assistive Technology For
Students With Mild Disabilities (1995) E538: Cluster Grouping of Gifted Students: How to Provide Full - time Services on a Part - time Budget (1996) E530: Connecting Performance Assessment to Instruction (1995) E531: Creating Meaningful Performance Assessments (1995) E504: Developing Effective Programs for Special Education Students Who Are Homeless (1991) E507: HIV / AIDS Prevention Education for Exceptional Youth (1991) E521: Including Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms (1992) E509: Juvenile Corrections and the Exceptional Student (1991) E464: Meeting the Needs of Able Learners through Flexible Pacing (1989) E532: National and State Perspectives on Performance Assessment (1995) E533: Using Performance Assessment in Outcomes - Based Accountability Systems (1995)
Michigan State University researcher Carol Sue Englert has developed a web - based curriculum for elementary
students with mild disabilities that enhances literacy learning, particularly writing.
While these schools are able to successfully serve
students with mild disabilities, more complicated diagnoses often come with higher price tags, and some districts and networks claim that they lack both the proper infrastructure and the requisite funding to properly serve these students and their families (Zollers and Ramanathan 1998).
Instead, policy attention might be more usefully spent identifying and replicating effective academic or behavioral interventions that allow schools to declassify
students with mild disabilities, and investigating why parents of students with special needs are not choosing charters early on.
The main goal for mainstreaming is often to enable
students with mild disabilities to interact with peers who do not have disabilities so as to develop the social skills necessary for healthy social interaction and emotional development (for example, self - control, problem - solving, and relationship building).12 While this reasoning apparently de-emphasizes academic learning, it does not mean that content learning is not important.
Studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of technology with writing instruction for
students with mild disabilities.
Since a major emphasis of the social studies is to help students develop the skills, values, and knowledge needed for active participation in a democratic society, the PK - 6 social studies classroom is a natural setting within which
students with mild disabilities can learn and rehearse necessary social skills.
Martin Henley, Roberta S. Ramsey, Robert Algozzine, Characteristics of and Strategies for Teaching
Students with Mild Disabilities (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1996).
About 1.5 million students aged 6 - 11 receive services as
students with mild disabilities (out of a total of 2.7 million with disabilities in this age group in the United States).2 In an audience of one hundred 6 - 11 year old students, chances are that about six or seven will have a mild disability of some sort.
Elementary school social studies teachers may receive only minimal support when working with
students with mild disabilities.
In addition to her work with the NYS RtI TAC, Dr. Janczak is an associate professor in the Exceptional Education Department at the State University College at Buffalo College where she teaches graduate level coursework involving single subject research methodology and effective instructional strategies for
students with mild disabilities.
Word prediction programs have been shown to bypass spelling and writing difficulties effectively for
students with mild disabilities.
Because of the benefits of technology integration for
students with mild disabilities and because
students with mild disabilities may be found in every classroom, every teacher should be aware that the integration of technology for these students can facilitate their learning.
Research on use of technology for
students with mild disabilities shows promise for today's classroom teachers.
Using the MacMillan Standardized Reading Test, Boone and Higgins (1993) determined that reading basals with multimedia - supplemented instruction for
students with mild disabilities was as effective as normal instruction and, in some cases, better.
Dr. Dane Marco Di Cesare has experience teaching a variety of courses at the university level, related to technology (e.g. Digital Practices in Inclusive Classrooms, Special Education & Technology), literacy (e.g. Language & Literacy, Adapting Reading Instruction for
Students with Mild Disabilities) and behavior managements / assessment (e.g. Classroom Dynamics).
Technology use has been shown to be beneficial when used as a tool for scaffolding the writing skills of
students with mild disabilities.
In an effort to help general educators develop an awareness of research - based technology applications that support the literacy development of
students with mild disabilities, the following summary of research is categorized by tools that promote reading development and tools that promote the development of written expression.
Dr. Janczak holds K - 12 certification in Special Education and School District Administration and was a former special educator for
students with mild disabilities at the primary and middle school levels where she provided explicit and direct literacy instruction to children who struggled with the reading process.
Millennial
students with mild disabilities and emerging assistive technology trends.
Project access: Field testing an assistive technology toolkit for
students with mild disabilities.
Interactive technologies and social studies instruction for
students with mild disabilities.
Progress monitoring with objective measures of writing performance for
students with mild disabilities.
Neither students with mild disabilities nor their counterparts without disabilities learn math the way commercial or district math curricula are organized, according to a study funded by the Office of Special Education Programs of the US Department of Education.
Students with mild disabilities also have problems with vocabulary - laden math texts, say the researchers.
Over the past 25 years, I have conducted research on the use of technology for enhancing learning in
students with mild disabilities and those who are at - risk of school failure.
The fact that these voucher funds are likely insufficient to serve students with profound needs means that there's an increased likelihood that
students with milder disabilities will use PESAs and vouchers to leave the public schools for private settings that are better equipped to handle less costly and complex needs, said Cleveland County's Aspel.
Not exact matches
After four years of the specialized teaching the researchers found that
students with mild or moderate intellectual
disability could independently read at the first - grade level, and some even higher.
«Little research has looked at this severely impaired population — most is aimed at improving relatively
mild movement impairments — and, as a consequence, no validated treatment is available to help those
with the most severe
disabilities,» says Rachael Harrington, a fourth - year PhD
student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) who will present the study.
(Btw, some argue that
students with relatively
mild disabilities are achieving well in charters, but I'd love to see more hard data proving that in charters kids at risk for special ed are not being labeled, and / or they're being exited from sped at higher rates after meeting grade level standards.)
«Rather than increasing school safety, zero tolerance often leads to indiscriminate suspensions and expulsions for both serious and
mild infractions and disproportionately impacts
students from minority status backgrounds and those
with disabilities.»
Like all Daily Living Skills workbooks, this series is written on a high third / low fourth grade level and targeted to the
mild - to - moderate population (although, you'll see in the ratings, many teachers of
students with moderate - to - severe
disabilities have used the program successfully.)
Icahn officials note that they lack space to serve
students with significant
disabilities requiring self - contained classes and that the network often classifies children
with milder disabilities as general - education
students.
They adapt general education lessons and teach various subjects, such as reading, writing, and math, to
students with mild and moderate
disabilities.
This study evaluated the effects of a computer - based instructional program to assist three
students with mild to moderate intellectual
disabilities in using pictorial graphic organizers as aids for increasing comprehension of electronic text - based...
For
students with mild to moderate
disabilities, the State has taken two actions - the former is very controversial and the later has much more promise.
Doris Helge, executive director of the council, said that rural special educators may be required to work
with students with a variety of
mild handicaps, such as learning
disabilities, behavior disorders, and
mild mental retardation, yet many states require a teacher to be separately certified and trained to teach each one of those handicapping conditions.
The primary purpose of the study was to identify the decisions that preservice special education teachers made and the types of knowledge they used when making these decisions as they integrated iPad apps into lessons
with students who had
mild disabilities.
The current study illustrates one way that teacher educators can provide preservice special educators
with opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills they need to implement technology effectively
with students who have
mild disabilities.
But the idea that all
students with cognitive or intellectual
disabilities or
mild learning
disabilities should master regular class material has become sacrosanct in some circles.
The course provides candidates
with experience working in K — 12 classrooms serving
students who are typically developing, and
with students who are diagnosed
with mild to moderate
disabilities.
Lawrence - Brown (2004) confirms that differentiated instruction can enable
students with a wide range of abilities — from gifted
students to those
with mild or even severe
disabilities — to receive an appropriate education in inclusive classrooms.
Meet a range of
student needs in the classroom, including those of
students with mild to moderate
disabilities;
Compared
with the general
student population,
students with mild or severe learning
disabilities received more benefits from differentiated and intensive support, especially when the differentiation was delivered in small groups or
with targeted instruction (McQuarrie, McRae, & Stack - Cutler, 2008).
This credential program prepares educators to meet the needs of
students with a wide range of
mild to moderate
disabilities.
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Consulting services for IDEA Planning to enhance effective and successful services to all
students — but, especially,
students with disabilities at
mild through extreme levels of need.
It would be nice to offer a program to special education
students where the
students that really want to learn in a disciplined learning environment rather than being put in a classroom
with up t 17
students with disabilities from behaviors to ID
MILD and trying to meet the needs o all the
students while primarily responding to behaviors of
students who are apathetic and do not want to be taught.
Inner - city high schools such as Grant tend to have a considerable number of English language learners (ELLs) or
students with mild, moderate, or severe
disabilities (including
students labeled as «emotionally disturbed»).
Personalized learning requires attention to the unique needs of all
students of all abilities, acknowledging that each have different learning styles including
students with mild, moderate or severe
disabilities.