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Teaching Exceptional Children
Teaching Exceptional Children is a journal that explores practical methods for teaching students who have exceptionalities and those who are gifted and talented. Since it was founded in 1956, it is published six times a year. The journal is published by the Council for Exceptional Children.Subjects for Teaching Exceptional Children include education. The editors are Alec Peck and Stan Scarpati.
Articles from Vol. 30, No. 6, July/August
An ADHD Success Story: Strategies for Teachers and Students
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Brian enters the classroom . He sees a group of glass beakers located on a table in the back of the room. He goes to the table and begins rearragnging the beakers, stacking them into an elaborate configuration. He steps back to admire his creation as...
Annotated Bibliography on Speech Synthesis and Word Prediction
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Borgh, K., & Dickson, W P. (1992). The effects on children's writing of adding speech synthesis to a word processor. Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 24, 533-544. Compared word processing with and without speech synthesis with nondisabled...
From Gibberish to Phonemic Awareness: Effective Decoding Instruction
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Every classroom teacher has come across children like 10-year-old Jimmy (see Figure 1), bright, motivated, from a loving home, and having had excellent teachers-why is it that Jimmy's reading and writing sound and look like gibberish? What about Alecia,...
From Illegible to Understandable: How Word Recognition and Speech Synthesis Can Help
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Thomas was a 9-year-old third-grade student who attended a small private school for students with learning problems. He had a severe learning disability in reading and writing, as well as an attention deficit disorder. Despite above-average intelligence...
From Passivity to Participation: The Transformational Possibilities of Speech-Recognition Technology
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Sue Johnson, a woman with profound mental retardation and severe cerebral palsy, gazed up in delight at scenes of her home that were playing on a TV screen suspended above her. She was watching a home movie in which her sister showed off her new car,...
From the ERIC Cleaninghouse: Book Preview: Eric/OSEP Mini-Library on Adapting Instructional Materials
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Today's teachers have a big job! Whether you're teaching a mixed ability classroom, co-teaching with a general education teacher, working in a resource room, or serving as a consultant, you're working with a diverse group of students who have a variety...
How to Call Up Notetaking Skills
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Mr. W. said that today we are going to continue learning about Ancient Greece. I'd better open my social studies section and take notes so I can remember the information. I'm going to use my new CALL UP strategy. The first is the C, Copy from the board....
Picture It Now! with Digital Cameras
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Until recently, in order to obtain instant photos, you needed to possess a Polaroid camera. With your Polaroid you would take the picture, wait a couple of minutes, and voila! instant print. Now there is another choice. Digital cameras look and operate...
Ple^aze, Teacher, Help Me Le^arn to Spell Better: Teach Me Self-Correction
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In the midst of his spelling pretest on Monday, Jeremy found himself thinking about what it would be like to be outside playing baseball. He pulled his mind back into the classroom just in time to realize that he'd probably missed another word. Oh, well,...
Reducing Students' Refusal and Resistance
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Near the end of her lesson, Ms. Corbin, the elementary art teacher, instructs the class to begin cleanup in preparation for recess. Most students begin this task immediately, but some are slow to do so. Sarah half-heartedly begins clean-up and starts...
Say Cheese! Using Personal Photographs as Prompts
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"Carrie and Allen, share the construction paper!" "Michael, put the books back where they belong!" "Elena, work quietly!" "Put everything back where it belongs in the science center." "All right, class, let's get ready for math." Classroom teachers issue...
The Time-Space Continuum: Using Natural Supports in Inclusive Classrooms
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Developing an inclusive education program can be difficult. Teachers and administrators must overcome many barriers, such as these: Philosophical barriers (whether these kids belong here). Logistical barriers (who goes where, for what class). Personal...
Three Major Approaches to Teaching Spelling
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Self-correction spelling fits within a framework of three spelling approaches: traditional, remedial, and specialized (Heron, Okyere, & Miller, 1991). A brief summary of this taxonomy follows, as an orientation to these approaches. Selfcorrection...
Using Collaborative Strategic Reading
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SR [Collaborative Strategic Reading] is an excellent technique for teaching students reading comprehension and building vocabulary and also working together cooperatively. I think it is wonderful. We have been using it with the social studies text and...
Using Open-Ended Learning Activities to Empower Teachers and Students
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In a fouth-grade classroom, Jane introduced her language arts activity by saying to the class, "I was thinking you don't want to do another written assignment. Instead of doing a chapter review, work together with your group. Figure out a way to present...
What Are Common Types of Noncompliance?
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Four types of noncompliance commonly occur in parent-child and teacher-student interactions. These are: passive noncompliance, simple refusal, direct defiance, and negotiation (see Kuczynski, Kochanska, RadkeYarrow, & Girnius-Brown, 1987). In passive...
What Are Natural Supports?
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Researchers have recognized a reliance on natural supports for students with disabilities as an important factor in making inclusive settings successful. According to Jorgensen (1992), natural supports are "those components of an educational program-philosophy,...
What Does the Research Say about Severe Disabilities and Speech-Recognition Technology?
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More than 2 million children and adults in the United States have physical or mental impairments so severe that they are unable to communicate with other people or effectively interact with and learn from their environment (Bricker & Filler, 1985)....
What Have Researchers Observed about Student Compliance?
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What Kinds of Directives Lead to Compliance? Golly (1994) conducted a direct observational study of student refusal responses to teacher directives in elementary grades one and two. Forty elementary teachers and their classrooms, equally divided between...
What the Research Says on Open-Ended Activities
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In describing open-ended activities, the author has adapted a conceptual framework from the literature on differentiated education for gifted students, modeled after Kaplan's Grid (1986). Open-ended activities can provide a wide range of choices for...
Why Teach Notetaking Skills?
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The trend toward inclusion throughout school and the fact that college has become a viable alternative for many students with learning disabilities have increased the necessity for learning how to take notes during classroom presentations. This skill...
