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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"exceptionalities"”.
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School leaders creating an inclusive school culture for students with exceptionalities
… an inclusive culture and champion students with exceptionalities work towards success for all students. When students with exceptionalities spend time in the general education setting, they experience academic, social, and emotional growth. This study contributes to research on inclusive school …
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Parent/Guardian Voices: Experiences and Perspectives of Parents of Children With Exceptionalities
… of parents and guardians of children with exceptionalities in Saskatchewan. As a classroom teacher and student services teacher for over twenty years, my goal was to better understand the experiences, concerns and opinions of participants. Additionally, I wanted to learn whether or not …
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School-based service delivery models for students with exceptionalities: Stakeholders' perceptions of effectiveness.
… service delivery models for students with exceptionalities and the perceptions of their effectiveness by key stakeholders: principals and vice-principals, classroom teachers, and special education teachers. There were 260 participants in this study; 29 administrators, 164 classroom …
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The motivational effects of using mobile devices in mathematics classrooms by students with exceptionalities
… motivation levels experienced by students with exceptionalities in the area of mathematics are often cited as a major factor negatively affecting their potential for success (Baird & Scott, 2009; Reichrath, de Witte, & Winkens, 2010). In the wake of many ongoing experiments using new mobile …
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Development and Testing of a Primary Tier Social Skills Program: Effects for Children with Exceptionalities
School-wide positive behavior support (SWPBS), a tiered prevention model targeted at making educational environments safe and effective, is swiftly gaining popularity in the United States (Brandt, Chitiyo, May, 2012). This model aims to teach prosocial behavior through positively stated rules and …
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Perceptions of Change in Self-Efficacy to Pursue Postsecondary Education for Students with Exceptionalities Participating in a Postsecondary Transition Program
… to post-secondary studies among students with exceptionalities. The study also examined how their perceptions of change in self-efficacy compared to their non-exceptional peers in the program. Participants included Grade 11 and 12 students with and without exceptionalities who were at risk of …
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An Investigation Into The Learning Experiences Of Adolescents With Perceived Dual Exceptionalities Within Gifted And Special Education Middle Grades Settings
… giftedness are referred to as students with dual exceptionalities. This paradoxical relationship of disability and giftedness creates a challenge for teachers and students, particularly in schools that do not have a specific program for students with dual exceptionalities. Most of these students …
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CONCEPTUALIZING ONE’S SELF-EFFICACY AS ADVOCATE: PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AS EMBODIED IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CAPITALS
… as advocates for their own child(ren) with exceptionalities, as embodied in social and cultural capitals, as espoused by Bourdieu (1986). The present study was guided by the following research questions: How do educator-parents and non-educator parents perceive their efficaciousness as …
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Dance with a B-E-A-T: Recreational Dance with Behaviour Analysis and Therapy for Children and Youth with Exceptionalities
… and youth (7 to 12 years of age) with various exceptionalities such as neurodevelopmental disorders and/or anxiety disorders. This 8-week dance intervention program resulted in varying yet promising results across three primary domains for its three participants which were: (a) gross motor …
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The Impact of a Survey of Exceptionalities and Mainstreaming Course on the Perceived/knowledge of Preservice General Education Teachers at a Midwestern Teacher Education Institution
Results suggest that the survey of exceptionalities course and mainstreaming course had a statistically significant impact on the perceived knowledge of preservice general educators; however preservice general educators enrolled in the survey of exceptionalities course perceived themselves as …
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Stories told by LEAs of decisions regarding least restrictive environment : from change to transformation
… and cannot be taken away due to a person’s exceptionalities. This right is protected by federal law and enforced by district representatives to ensure students with exceptionalities are educated with peers to the maximum extent possible. However, this is not always successfully implemented. …
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LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: THE PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE SELECTION IN IEP DEVELOPMENT–ON BILITERACY FOR BILINGUAL LATINO STUDENTS WITH EXCEPTIONALITIES IN TWO-WAY IMMERSION
… (TWI) programs, bilingual Latino students with exceptionalities continue to experience disrupted biliteracy development. One underexamined practice contributing to this disruption is the selection of the language of instruction during Individualized Education Program (IEP) development. Grounded …
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How Parents of Exceptional Children Describe Their Relationships with Educational Professionals
… relationships between parents of children with exceptionalities and educational professionals. The guiding question of this study was: How do parents of children with exceptionalities describe their relationships with educational professionals? Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological theory and …
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Special Educators’ Experiences of Change Through Inclusive Education: The Development of the Inclusion Continuum of Change
… beliefs and teaching methods for students with exceptionalities in inclusive classrooms. Data collected from the five individual interviews was combined using a descriptive phenomenological method, to create a single collective description that illustrated the change experience of special …
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Drama Discovery: The Effect of Dramatic Arts in Combination with Bibliotherapy on the Self-Efficacy of Students with Emotional and/or Behavioral Disabilities Regarding Their Understanding of Their Own Exceptionalities
The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of dramatic arts in combination with bibliotherapy, which is the use of literary sources to help people solve complex problems and find understanding about a topic (Sullivan and Strang, 2003). The Drama Discovery curriculum was piloted in a …
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Goals for teaching secondary mildly handicapped students
… for significant differences across teaching exceptionalities toward perceived acceptance and implementation of selected goals. Chi-square analyses tested for any relationships between acceptance and implementation of these goals, as well as teacher relationships toward classification of …
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Parenting the Gifted: Caregivers’ Perspectives of Challenges and their Confidence to Support their Exceptional Children
… of parents with children of varying ages and exceptionalities. In addition, this study concludes with a discussion surrounding the additional challenges associated with parenting the exceptional, frameworks for gifted parent support systems, as well as how research can support a holistic …
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Attitudes of Teachers and Administrators toward the Handicapped in Malaysia and Implications for Teacher Training and Program Development
… the handicapped and categorical preferences for exceptionalities were used in this survey research. Ninety-two percent of the questionnaires were returned with 87% being scorable. The independent sample t test and one-way analysis of variance were used to investigate the effect of sex, age, race, …
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General Education Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Developing "Interventionist" Beliefs and Practices
… for teaching and including children with exceptionalities in their classrooms. 10 GEN elementary teachers, consisting of 3 men and 7 women, from 2 local school boards, were interviewed to determine if they were “Interventionist” (Stanovich & Jordan, 1998). From this sample, 6 GEN teachers; …
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A Multiple Perspective Study of Specific Language Impairment and Verbal Communication: Exploring Perceptions of Collaborative Learning
… As children with disabilities and learning exceptionalities spend more time in inclusive classrooms, it is necessary for general education teachers to expand and modify their instructional and assessment practices as well as differentiate the learning environment to meet a broad range of …
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