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Manifestation Determinations: An Interdisciplinary Guide to Best Practices
Content type: Journal Article
Students with disabilities are overrepresented within the population of students suspended or expelled from school. When a student with a disability faces an expulsion or suspension equaling more than 10 days, a manifestation determination review (MDR)...
How (and Why) to Write for TEACHING Exceptional Children
Content type: Journal Article
Overview of how to develop a manuscript for TEC.
Strategies for Helping Parents of Young Children Address Challenging Behaviors in the Home
Content type: Journal Article
Including parents in the process of Positive Behavior Supports (PBS) improves both child and family outcomes. This article provides background information on understanding challenging behaviors in young children, the importance of involving families, and...
Applied Behavior Analysis in Special Education: Misconceptions and Guidelines for Use
Content type: Journal Article
This article highlights behavior analytic contributions to special education, clarifies misconceptions, and illustrates ways teachers can embed applied behavior analysis (ABA) into their teaching practices to teach academic, social, and other skills to a...
Effective Word-Problem Instruction: Using Schemas to Facilitate Mathematical Reasoning
Content type: Journal Article
In this article, we feature two practices that have emerged from high-quality research studies as essential in word-problem instruction. The first is teaching an attack strategy, which provides students with a general plan for processing and solving word...
The Neurobiology of Dyslexia
Content type: Journal Article
Advances in neurobiological research have created new opportunities for understanding and exploring dyslexia. The purpose of this paper is to (a) provide a straightforward, although not overly simplified, overview of neurological research on dyslexia and...
RISC: Four Steps for Interpreting and Communicating High-Stakes Assessment Results
Content type: Journal Article
In this manuscript, the authors describe a set of research based strategies that special educators can use when reviewing high-stakes assessment score reports and communicating the results to parents. Through the RISC process (Review, Interpret, Streamline...
Did State Pre-Kindergarten Programs Affect the Head Start Enrollment of Children with Disabilities? A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Content type: Journal Article
Little is known about how the expansion of state pre-kindergarten (pre-k) programs affects low-income children with disabilities in Head Start. Using almost 30 years of administrative data of all Head Start programs and a differences-in-differences design...
Next-Generation Fraction Intervention and the Long-Term Advantage of Interleaved Instruction
Content type: Journal Article
This study's first purpose was to investigate effects of a fourth- and fifth-grade “next-generation” fraction intervention, which included six enhancements over a previously validated fraction intervention, designed to address career- and college-readiness...
Evidence-Based Assessment in Special Education Research: Advancing the Use of Evidence in Assessment Tools and Empirical Processes
Content type: Journal Article
Evidence-based assessment (EBA) requires that investigators employ scientific theories and research findings to guide decisions about what domains to measure, how and when to measure them, and how to make decisions and interpret results. To implement EBA...