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Peer reviewedFoster-Johnson, Lynn; Dunlap, Glen – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
The process of "functional assessment" is recommended to establish a basis for individualized behavior management programing for students with special needs. The approach is based on identifying the functions of the challenging behavior and involves systematically collecting information about the behavior and developing an intervention…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Change Strategies
Peer reviewedMiner, Craig A.; Bates, Paul E. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1997
Describes a person-centered planning approach for involving students with disabilities and their families in the transition planning process. Components of person-centered planning are discussed, including development of a personal profile, identification of future lifestyle preferences, action steps and responsible parties, and necessary changes…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Family Involvement
Ferguson, Dianne L.; Ralph, Ginevra; Meyer, Gwen; Lester, Jackie; Droege, Cleo; Guojonsdottir, Hafdis; Sampson, Nadia Katul; Williams, Janet – 2001
Students are more diverse than ever before in cultural background, learning style and interests, social and economic classes, and abilities and disabilities. This diversity replaces the old statistically derived, bell-shaped curve that uncompromisingly identifies some students as "inside" and other as "outside." With this shift in norm definition,…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Change Strategies, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Direct linkMarino, Matthew T.; Marino, Elizabeth C.; Shaw, Stan F. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2006
Special education teachers and individualized education program (IEP) team members throughout the country are struggling to make appropriate decisions regarding assistive technology (AT) for students with high incidence disabilities. Although numerous authors and organizations have developed tools to assist IEP teams when considering AT, the task…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Incidence, Disabilities, Educational Technology
Download full textReed, Penny R. – 1999
This paper discusses the difficulties many school districts have in fully complying with the assistive technology requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), especially the broadened requirement in IDEA 97 to consider the need for assistive technology in developing each Individualized Education Program for students with…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Change Strategies, Compliance (Legal), Delivery Systems
Stodden, Robert A.; Conway, Megan A. – 2002
This information brief on the successful transition of students with disabilities to postsecondary educational settings focuses on the importance of the student's full participation in the Individualized Education Program (IEP) process during secondary school and the student's developing understanding of differences between secondary and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Legislation
