Inclusion
of Students with Special Needs:
Teaching and Learning
Schools
are accommodating diversity with a variety of teaching strategies and
different degrees of mastery.
Inclusive learning environments are reflections of the change
in teaching and learning to help all students meet high expectations.
Go
to articles and links for further information:
Research,
Resources and Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms
Criteria
for Identifying Best Practices
A list of objective standards to use as guidelines in evaluating learning
models.
Connecting
IDEAs Project
Seattle
School District and Antioch University have joined in the development
of a training model for inclusive practices.
What
Works in Classroom Instruction
The purpose
of this publication is to provide educators with instructional strategies
that research shows have the greatest likelihood of positively affecting
student learning. It is designed to be used by K-12 classroom teachers,
building level administrators, and central office administrators. It
is offered as a tool to enhance students' achievement in any content
area.
S.M.A.R.T.
Management For Teaching And Learning Elizabeth
Webber
Classroom management is critical to successful teaching and students'
effective learning. Five management strategies for effective classrooms
are introduced here with examples of actions for teachers.
The
Powerful Impact of Stress and Calm on Health, Behavior and Learning
Victoria Tennant
As high stress increases in classrooms for both teachers and students,
a specialist in this field offers timely and helpful suggestions for
coping.
School-Wide
Positive Behavioral Support: A Continuum of Proactive Strategies for
All Students Kristy B. Ausdemore, Ronald C. Martella,
Nancy E. Marchand-Martella
University
special education graduate student and professors explain the School
Wide Positive Support (SW-PBS) technique that leads to more positive
behaviors and increases active engagement in learning. They have written
an additional article An
Overview of Direct Instruction.
You
Can Teach Self Control Karen L. Aitken
How a third grade teacher in Texas teaches her students an essential
life and learning skill.
A
Classroom Where All Students Are Learning Alice C. Mendoza
A dedicated third grade teacher describes her inclusion classroom and
the specific ways she helps all her students to learn and work together.
Catching
the Children Who Fall Through The Cracks Trina Westerlund
The founder and Executive Director of Children's Institute for Learning
Differences (CHILD) shows the program helps children with special needs
to learn by meeting their individual needs and teaching them to self
regulate.
Strategies
for Winning Over the Impossible Class Camille
Clawson
A
thirty-three year teaching veteran shares her effective methods to help
students feel respected, loved and successful.
One
Response to Special Needs in the Classroom: Utilizing College Students
as an Untapped Resource Christine Stickler
University of Washington Pipeline Program Director explains her outreach
program that offers undergraduate students both educational and service
opportunities to tutor students in public schools.
Language
Learning Impairment: Integrating Research and Remediation
Paula
Tallal, Ph.D.
A computer game program called Fast ForWord™ has been shown to significantly
improve the central auditory processing and speech and language skills
of language learning impaired children. This novel remediation technique
grew out of a collaboration between Dr. Paula Tallal and Dr. Michael
Merzenich. Their research show that improvements are replicable and
continue over time and are achieved in a relatively short, intensive
program.
Teaching
Study Skills with Brain Science Timmi
Jo Forbes, et al.
The
author uses neuroscience in the classroom so that special needs students
can discover for themselves how they can learn.
Service
Learning in Special Education Lori Armstrong Lynass
Special education teacher finds service learning a valuable tool for
helping her students to become engaged in successful learning.
Learning
Through Meaningful Work
B. J. Wise
" Every school has a small core of students whose basic needs for attention,
nurturing and competence cannot be met by the large group approach required
in most public school classrooms." B. J. Wise and the faculty at Silver
Ridge Elementary School met this challenge with a creative approach
that rewards children for competence and initiative. Best of all, the
Meaningful Work program includes everyone in school, and builds positive
mentoring and learning relationships. It even generates income that
helps support the program. The Meaningful Work program has been adopted
by other schools and districts.
The
Story of Echo Glen Doris Lyon
A research analyst for the Washington Education Association describes
the success of the Echo Glen Juvenile Detention Center's academic program
and their participation in the "Keys to Excellence in Your School" program.
Rainier
Scholars Sarah Smith
This innovative and highly successful program works to encourage the
academic achievement of students whose potential has too often gone
unrecognized and underdeveloped.
Field
Trips and Research Projects for Kids with Learning Disabilities
Arnold L. Stark
Arnold Stark observes that many students with learning disabilities
have intense strengths and interests that must be supported and encouraged
in school and at home in order for them to flourish academically.
A
Teacher's Guide to Including Students with Disabilities in General Physical
Education Martin E. Block
This is
a practical handbook for any physical education teacher! It includes
a description of what a quality physical education program should include,
and reviews the history and key characteristics of inclusion.
Including
Young Children with Special Needs Ilene
S. Schwartz, Samuel L. Odom, and Susan R. Sandall
Inclusion
is not just a school issue -- it extends to the communities in which
children and their families live. For parents of special needs children,
participation in community, family, and other activities is important
as well. Ilene Schwartz, Susan Sandall, and Sam Sodom share their views
of inclusion, what it means and what it takes to implement.
Including
Children with Autism in Inclusive Preschools: Strategies that Work
Ilene
S. Schwartz, Felix F. Billingsley, and Bonnie M. McBride
How children with autism and other developmental disabilities are included
with normally developing children in the Alice H. Hayden Preschool at
the University of Washington's Experimental Education Unit (EEU).
Advanced
Placement as a Positive Outcome for All Students Kathleen
Plato
The Supervisor for Advanced Placement Programs at the Washington State
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction conveys the powerful
effect of advanced placement programs on the state and nation.
The
Assayer's Scale: Was Intelligence the Ultimate Currency of the Information
Age? Dr.
Renee Fuller
Abstract
ideas are supposed to be out of reach of the severely retarded and the
very young. Such intellectual property belongs to higher mental ages,
to higher IQ levels. So why is Dr. Fuller's learning program so successful?
Stories:The
Brain-Compatible Way of Teaching Humans Dr.
Renee Fuller
Teaching with stories can improve language skills and thinking skills
in children of all abilities.
Bibliotherapy
for the Inclusive Classroom Anita Iaquinta and Shellie
Hipsky
Teachers can use bibliotherapy in the inclusive classroom as a tool
to promote understanding of disabilities for all students.
The
Learning Window The
ARK Institute of Learning
A handbook
describing specific problems that can be addressed by the Learning Window,
a tool that can be constructed of low-cost materials for use in classrooms.
The ARK
Institute of Learning provides this information at no charge on our
website.
Spatial
Relations and Learning Carol Stockdale and Carol
Possin, Ph.D.
Article discusses the many ways in which people with difficulty establishing
spatial and temporal relationships can face problems in ordinary situations.
Section
504: It is Not Unfunded Special Education Niki
Hayes
A list of potential accommodations, an argument on why teachers need
training in 504, a brief history of Section 504, and a working
definition of the law.
To Accommodate, To Modify, and To Know the Difference: Help Determining
Placement of a Child in Special Education or "504" Niki
Hayes
Explaining and understanding the differences between accommodations
and modifications in the school setting can help determine the
most effective and appropriate placement for students who are deemed
eligible for special help. Niki Hayes gives examples of modifications
and accommodations to help us determine the most appropriate placement
for a child.
NEA: Works for Me! Tips on Managing Inclusive Classrooms
Teachers
identified by the NEA as "successfully meeting the challenge with enthusiasm
and grace" share tips and strategies for including all students in general
classrooms.
Bibliography:
Integration/Inclusive Education for Students with Disabilities
Research and Strategies for Teaching Reading
Helping
Struggling Readers Linda
Campbell and Crystal Kelly
Phonics
instruction, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, tutoring
and an at-home component are the essential ingredients of a successful
reading program.
Reading,
Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, and Assorted Miseries Dr.
Renee Fuller
Dr. Renee Fuller examines the Reading Readiness Test -- a test that
she failed after she received her doctorate in psychology and after
she had spent a decade in libraries reading medical journals in several
languages! The Reading Readiness Test is used to determine whether or
not a child is ready to enter the first grade. The test's assessment
determined that reading would not come easily for Dr. Fuller, but it
did not predict that she might be able to achieve literacy through other
means.
Music,
Mathematics, Dyslexia: The Other Ways of Organizing Information
Dr. Renee Fuller
Dyslexia need not mean disability. Dr.
Fuller presents a method of teaching students with dyslexia to read.
New
Horizons for Learning: Teaching and Learning Strategies-- Literacy
Phonemic
Awareness
A page of links, including introductory articles and assessment tools.
LD Online:
Reading
Links on LD and literacy.
US
Department of Education: America Reads: Resources for Teaching Literacy
Lots of
reading resources from the Department of Education, including
Ideas at Work: How to Help Every Child Become a Reader, a new overview
of national reading initiatives.
Learning to Read, Reading
to Learn Campaign: Helping Children With Learning Disabilities Succeed
Provides
easy to understand overviews of research findings and recommendations
for teachers and families of special needs children. Materials would
be ideal to use as handouts in workshops and at parent -teacher conferences.
Preventing
Reading Difficulties in Young Children (Executive Summary)
Summary
of an important report by Catherine E. Snow, M. Susan Burns, and Peg
Griffin, Editors, the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties
in Young Children , the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences
and Education, and the National Research Council.
Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA)
CIERA's
mission is to improve the reading achievement of America's children
by generating and disseminating theoretical, empirical, and practical
solutions to persistent problems in the learning and teaching of beginning
reading.
Teaching
Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who? Book
recommendation
Technology
and Special Needs
Nesta
Futurelab
The Futurelab is a collaborative think tank in the UK working to link
technology and learning in new ways.
The
Special Education Technology Center
From
Central Washington University.
The
Accessible Classroom
A website from Johns Hopkins University with resources for educators
on assistive, instructional and accessible technologies for the classroom.
Setting
the Context for Universal Design for Learning and Universal Accessibility
John Castellani and Linda Tsantis
Two Johns Hopkins University professors have developed effective ways
of helping regular classroom teachers to become familiar with assistive
technologies.
Assistive
Technology for Children Who Have Cerebral Palsy: Augmentative Communication
Devices Alisa
Beth Kahn
For children
with special education needs, the world of technology offers hope and
possibilities.
Spastic
Cerebral Palsy and Intrathecal Baclofen Debra S. Schwulst
A new method for managing the symptoms of cerebral palsy.
Assistive
Technology and Inclusion Caren Sax, Ian Pumpian,
Doug Fisher
Adaptive
technologies can open a new world to children with physical limitations.
The story of Joey illustrates how teachers and advocates became familiar
with the wide range of assistive devices that could increase Joey's
access to his world.
Fueling
Inclusion Through Technology
Students with Disabilities Can Rise to New Heights with Assistive Technology.
Alliance
for Technology Access
Regional
centers providing information and support services to children and adults
with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive,
and information technologies.
Apple
Computer: The Disability Connection
Macintosh
and third party disability solutions, shareware library, information
on new developments. Connect to Apple Computer's Worldwide Disability
Solutions Group (WDSG).
AST
Center for Applied Special Technology
Home of
Bobby-- an online resource that checks websites for accessibility.
Closing
the Gap
Closing
The Gap is a source for information on innovative applications of computer
technology in special education and rehabilitation.
Seeking
a Post-Secondary Education Yvonne Singer
An inspiring and courageous story from a physically disabled young woman
who pursued higher education despite the recommendations of her teachers
and family.
Recommended
Reading
Inclusive
Schools in Action: Making Differences Ordinary
James McLeskey and Nancy Waldron
Classroom
Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher
Robert J. Marzano with Jana S. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering
Differentiated
Instruction: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers
Amy Benjamin
Differentiated
Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All
Gayle
H. Gregory and Carolyn Chapman
Closing
the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices
Edited by Belinda Williams
Teaching
Kids With Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom
Susan Winebrenner
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