Experiences with nature are important for children's development and there are many ways for educators to provide children with exceptionalities opportunities to interact with nature. Children with diverse needs can, and should, have opportunities to interact with nature. This article describes how to apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL)…

One of the unique features of charter schools is their flexibility to specialize their education programming by focusing on a particular content area, group of students, or educational philosophy. These focus areas can be an important motivator for charter school founders, teachers, and families that choose to enroll their students. At the same…

Background: Phonological awareness is an important skill for literacy development. However, limited research has been conducted on tonal languages or non-alphabetic orthographies, including Thai. Understanding the development of phonological awareness in Thai-speaking children is important for identifying risk factors for dyslexia and for…

This paper focuses on vignettes as a creative research method that can help us conceptualise early childhood education and care teachers' understandings of diversity. Research on teachers' understandings of diversity and inclusive education is used as an example to illustrate how vignettes can shed light on specific elements (e.g. school…

Background: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental condition, more often diagnosed in males. In many individuals, particularly females, ADHD is diagnosed later or missed, the reasons for this are not fully understood. Timely diagnosis is needed to provide support, management, and treatment to improve…

Students with extensive support needs (ESN) have an increased risk of engaging in challenging behavior due to a range of factors, including communication and health needs common among this student population. When students engage in behaviors that impede learning, school teams organize support across social and emotional domains to ensure access…

This study investigated caregivers' perspectives on applied behaviour analysis (ABA) intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Ghana. Using a qualitative case study approach, data were collected from 13 teachers and six parents across two schools in the Central and Greater Accra Regions. Thematic analysis revealed seven…

Under the umbrella of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), this research explored the experiences of nine intermediate and secondary school students from Aotearoa New Zealand with auditory processing disorder (APD) who used a remote microphone (RM) system at school. Much of the school-based research with those with APD…

This study explored parental stress among 121 mothers of adolescents with high intellectual potential (HIP, n = 35), twice-exceptional (TE, n = 35), adolescents with disorders (D, n = 21), and typical adolescents (CG, n = 28), using the SIPA questionnaire. It is the first French study to examine stress in mothers of TE adolescents, who combine…

The purpose of this article is to address the importance of beliefs middle school general education teachers hold and how those beliefs have an impact on students they are teaching, especially SWDs within the inclusion classroom. This article considers the following: (a) defining inclusion classrooms; (b) how are teachers beliefs constructed; (c)…

Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition which can affect communication, attention, perception, and cognitive processing, and thus has an impact on learning in higher education. This study investigated the experiences of geosciences students in U.K. higher education, using a novel qualitative methodology designed to be inclusive for…

Purpose: This study addresses the challenge of identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilingual children. Despite the broad range of language measurements documented in the literature, their individual contribution to a DLD diagnosis remains unclear. Administrating a high number of tests will yield a holistic child view, but it needs…

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic affected children with intellectual disabilities and their parents in numerous ways. This study investigates the impact by analysing the narratives of their parents in the city of Guwahati, located in Assam, a northeastern state of India. The study contributes to the scholarship on intellectual disability in…

The question of whether inclusion has gone too far is being raised by a growing number of people. In Sweden, this has been formalised in a governmental declaration that also recommends that children with special needs should have access to specialist segregated provision. In this paper, the question of how far we have come towards inclusive…

The purpose of this article is to promote a family-empowerment model to serve minoritized, young, twice exceptional (2e), dual language learner (DLL) Latinx children who are advanced in one or more preacademic areas and who receive early childhood special education (ECSE) services due to developmental delay and challenging behaviors. Through…