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Shyman, Eric – Psychology in the Schools, 2010
The purpose of this preliminary study was to identify predictors of emotional exhaustion among special education paraeducators. A sample of 100 paraeducators in public and specialized alternative setting schools was used to determine whether self-reported levels of emotional exhaustion and other job-related factors were reported. Using…
Descriptors: Fatigue (Biology), Role Conflict, Special Education, Burnout
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Agran, Martin; Krupp, Michael – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2010
The available data suggest that both students and adults with disabilities sustain injuries and are victims of crimes at high levels. Despite these alarming data, several researchers have suggested that safety skills instruction has largely been ignored as a curricular domain. Further, although parents can serve a critical function in educational…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Safety Education, Skill Development, Children
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Rose, Chad Allen; Espelage, Dorothy Lynn; Monda-Amaya, Lisa E. – Educational Psychology, 2009
Bullying and victimisation remains a pervasive problem within the nation's schools. International research has indicated that students who are enrolled in special education curricula are victimised and perpetrate more bullying than their general education peers. Few empirical studies have examined bullying and victimisation rates among American…
Descriptors: General Education, Bullying, Disabilities, Self Contained Classrooms
Hsu, Tsui-Fang – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study was conducted with school personnel in Yun-Lin County, a rural school district of Taiwan, to identify and compare the attitudes of school administrators, regular education teachers, and special education teachers toward the inclusion of students with disabilities in the regular classroom and to identify the extent to which inclusion is…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Inclusion, Disabilities, Regular and Special Education Relationship
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Scholom, Allan; And Others – Education, 1981
Discusses results of a three-year investigation of personal, social and academic adjustment by learning disabled students. Concludes that younger children in self contained classrooms achieve more academic and personal success than older ones and those in mainstreamed classes. Identifies five critical factors affecting educational outcomes with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Behavior Change, Class Organization
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Donne, Vicki J.; Zigmond, Naomi – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2008
An observational study of reading instruction, using the MS-CISSAR protocol, was conducted in general education classrooms, resource classrooms, and self-contained special education/deaf education classrooms in Grades 1 through 4 in public schools within the tri-state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Participants were 24 students who…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Partial Hearing, Deafness, Grade 1