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Mooneyham, Jeannine – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1990
Suggestions for using children's literature in special classes for hearing-impaired elementary grade students are offered, using Wanda Gag's "Millions of Cats" as an example that is applied across all curriculum areas. (DB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments

Glassberg, Leslie Ann – Behavioral Disorders, 1994
A discriminant analysis of characteristics of students with behavioral disorders in three progressively more intensive placements indicated that age at time of diagnosis was the strongest discriminating variable contributing to placement outcomes. Younger, brighter students tended to be mainstreamed, and older students with more externalizing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Disorders, Disability Identification, Intelligence
Feldhusen, John F. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1991
Provision of full-time programs for highly gifted students at both the elementary and secondary levels is supported, and guidelines are offered on criteria and procedures for student selection, curriculum and teaching methods, characteristics and training requirements for teachers, findings of research on special classes, and the need for…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Drege, Patricia; Beare, Paul L. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1991
Implementation of a token economy system with a time-out backup consequence in a highly structured self-contained elementary classroom for children with emotional and behavior disorders demonstrated a strong functional relationship between the intervention system and improvement in the students' behavior. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances

Shinn, Mark R.; Powell-Smith, Kelly A.; Good, Roland H., III – School Psychology Review, 1996
Study reports the results of reintegrating 18 elementary-age students with mild disabilities, who were served in special-education pull-out programs, into their general-education classroom for reading instruction. One-half of the reintegrated students rated as benefiting from reintegration; only three students were judged as not benefiting.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Mainstreaming, Outcomes of Education

Crissman, Jennifer L. – Journal of College Student Retention, 2002
Analyzed the impact of clustering a first-year seminar with an English composition course on new students' retention rates at a small, independent college in the northeast. Found no statistical difference in retention rates between students taking the clustered first-year seminar and students taking a non-clustered first-year seminar. (EV)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Higher Education
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2008
This book provides an internationally comparable set of indicators on educational provision for students with disabilities, learning difficulties and disadvantages (DDD). It highlights the number of students involved, where they are educated--special schools, special classes or regular classes--and in what phases of education--pre-primary,…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Learning Problems, Educational Needs, Inclusive Schools
Stile, Stephen W.; And Others – 1991
This study investigated initial placements, current placements, and stability of placements for 1,646 graduates of special education preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-olds with developmental disabilities from 61 New Mexico school districts. Subjects graduated in four waves from 1986-87 through 1989-90. Major findings were that 10 percent of the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Developmental Disabilities, Longitudinal Studies, Mainstreaming
Marston, Ruth Ann; Abraham, Willard – 1983
To examine the existence of short term indicators of long term program results, studies and autobiographical/biographical material of gifted individuals were reviewed. Analysis yielded a checklist of 25 characteristics purported to lead to satisfaction as adults. The checklist items are explained to include the following self perceptions of gifted…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Gifted, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Hilton, Alan – 1983
Teachers in self contained special education classes can learn to monitor and supervise parent and peer volunteers in the classroom. Teachers should remember the parents' background in teaching their children, realize the success demonstrated by nondegreed individuals, and understand the importance of scheduling and reinforcing the volunteers for…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Participation, Parent Role

Gallagher, James J. – School Psychology Digest, 1974
Two problems are discussed: 1) the difficulty of replacement of mildly handicapped children in regular education once they have been assigned to special education, 2) the tendency to over assign certain minority group children to special education. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Classification, Contracts, Identification, Legal Responsibility
American Vocational Journal, 1975
Negative labelling harms by lumping together students with diverse learning problems; instead of diagnosing and treating their problems scientifically, students are stereotyped and relegated to watered down curricula and poor instruction, says one speaker. Other reports on vocational education's response to students special needs are briefly…
Descriptors: Dropout Programs, Educational Problems, Program Descriptions, Rehabilitation
Kravetz, Nathan – 1984
A summer math class for gifted girls (grades 5-9) was established and conducted by a female instructor for 3 weeks. The class involved take-home work, puzzles, problem solving, and computer work. Parents and students were satisfied with the enrichment class, but questions remained concerning such an approach's legality, the advisability of…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Females, Gifted, Intermediate Grades
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1987
This one-page abstract summarizes the final report of a federally funded project titled, "Post-School Status of Young Adults Identified as Learning Disabled While Enrolled in Public Schools: A Comparison of Those Enrolled and Not Enrolled in Learning Disabilities Programs." The follow-up study compared the status of 25 students diagnosed…
Descriptors: Coping, Employment Level, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys
Ehrlich, Virginia Z. – 1985
Followup of 129 students who had been in an early childhood program for gifted students was carried out via analysis of achievement test data in vocabulary, reading, comprehension, total reading, and total mathematics. Data were obtained for three groups of students exposed to varying periods of time in the program. Findings indicated that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Early Childhood Education, Followup Studies