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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Self-contained special education."”.
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The effectiveness of looping in self-contained special education classrooms
… two or more years, is one that is used in some self-contained special education settings. The purpose of this study was to show that this practice is beneficial to both teacher and students in this type of environment. The goal of this investigation was to demonstrate that looping in a …
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Factors influencing curriculum in elementary self-contained special education classrooms
In regular education classrooms, curriculum is prescribed by a state or local education agency. In special education programs such as inclusion or resource models, curriculum may be dictated by the regular education curriculum or by categorically-defined student learning needs. In the …
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Black male students’ experiences in Midwest high school self- contained special education classes
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Opening the doors to self-contained special education classrooms: Perspectives on their continued use
… severe disabilities continue to be educated in self-contained special education classrooms. This research aims to bring to light the experiences of special education teachers who primarily educate students with disabilities in self-contained classrooms to better understand the continued use of …
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Investigating secondary self-contained special education students' access to augmentative and alternative communication through educator experiences : a phenomenological study.
… public schools to provide every student in Special Education with a free appropriate public education (FAPE) and an individualized education program (IEP), which provides students' accommodations and services, there is variation in the degree of access that many students have to assistive …
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The Social Perceptions And Attitudes Held By African American Males Who Participated In A Self-Contained Special Education Middle School Program For Three Years And Dropped Out Of High School After The Ninth Grade
… BY AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES WHO PARTICIPATED IN A SELF-CONTAINED SPECIAL EDUCATION MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR THREE YEARS AND DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AFTER THE NINTH GRADE</strong></p> <p>by</p> <p><strong>SHERRELL HOBBS</strong></p> <p><strong>December 2010</strong></p> …
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Evidence-based practices for teaching mathematics to students with disabilities
… The participants include five students in a self-contained special education classroom. Depending on ability levels, the participants were exposed to one or more of the evidence-based strategies which included; self-regulation, concrete-representational-abstract, and copy, cover, compare. The …
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Voices from Lock-Up: Reflections of Detained Youth
… and after their incarceration, they all received self-contained special education services while at the Savannah Regional Youth Detention Center. This thesis will explore the thoughts the participants themselves had about this experience, supplementing the dearth of available research in this …
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Music and Attention for Children with Developmental Disabilities
… disabilities. The study took place in a self-contained special education classroom, which served third through fifth grade students. A single-subject with ABA or reversal design (Creswell, 2012) was utilized, including five days of baseline, 15 days of intervention, and five days of …
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COMPARISON OF MELODIC AND VERBAL PRESENTATION MODES ON AUDITORY SERIAL LEARNING BY LEARNING DISABLED CHILDREN
… grade learning disabled students from seven self-contained special education classes participated in the study with the written permission of parents or gaurdians. Subjects were assigned randomly to one of three experimental conditions: verbal, melodic with a familiar melody, or melodic with …
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The effectiveness of the Wilson Reading Program in improving spelling and decoding skills of a selected sample of special needs children
… who receive all their academic instruction in a self-contained special education classroom. These students have similar intelligence levels, and a similar degree of difficulty with reading and spelling. Three other students in the self-contained classroom served as a control group.</p> …
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How critical is fluency for the struggling reader?
… ability levels. One student is placed in a self-contained special education class, one student goes to the resource room for literacy, and one student receives help from the basic skills teacher. Students were assessed using the Critical Reading Inventory and a one minute reading probe. They …
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Implementing a Flexible Approach to Teacher Assignments and Placement of Students with Special Needs: A Policy Advocacy Document
<p>In February 2013, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) informed school districts that they were considering changing the rules related to special education class size and the percentage of students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) who can be enrolled in regular education …
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The Effects of the Social Listener Reinforcement Protocol on the Audience Control of Stereotypy and Social Operants for Students with Developmental Delays
… four participants' frequency of stereotypy in a self-contained special education setting versus a general education setting. Three students with autism, and one student diagnosed with an emotional disability were participants in the study. All students had the capability of observational learning …
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Teachers Engaging in Action Research to Increase Learner Agency
… agency. It is based on the Carnegie Project on Education Doctorate (CPED) framework that includes identifying a problem of practice and engaging in research to address the problem. A problem of practice was identified in this school setting by an incoming school principal following a principal …
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The planned integration of special education students
This study examined the process of integrating special education students into a regular education program. The study focused on needs, successful strategies, role changes, supervision of teachers, and outcomes of the integration process for a school engaged in transition from more restrictive …
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Individual power of teachers in the informal social structure of selected elementary schools.
… expertise. (4) Full-time classroom teachers and specialists were most active in the social structure. Part-time teachers, itinerant teachers, and special services personnel, such as psychologists, speech/language pathologists, etc., were not key participants. Some full-time teachers, such as fine …
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Whole-School Inclusive Reform: "It's What's Best for Kids”
… placing students with disabilities in segregated special classrooms. Their goal was to create a collaborative, multi-dimensional approach to providing all students with access to rigorous academic instruction and promoting a sense of belonging through students' full-time membership in general …
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A study of the relationships between oral comprehension and silent reading comprehension
… who will participate in this study are 20 special education students from this researcher's middle school. The 15 males and 5 females, ranging in age from 14 years 3 months to 10 years 4 months have been selected as a convenience group (N=20) from three self-contained special education …
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Holding Space: How Caregivers Narrate Support, Stress, and School Partnership
<p>This qualitative dissertation examined how caregivers of students with low-incidence disabilities experienced and interpreted school support within the context of daily family life. Grounded in the social model of disability, the study was designed to explore the nature of meaningful …