Panorama(BBC1 March 23) did nothing to dispel the myths and fears that surround Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton special hospitals. Neither Ashworth nor Broadmoor had an opportunity to put their case on the programme, maybe because they disagreed with what the programme was trying to establish.

Student performance in mathematics has been linked to the mathematical knowledge of the teacher. Based on this finding, a 5-day professional development module was created to improve teachers’ mathematical knowledge and their understanding of number sense. We found no difference prior to the professional development in mathematical content knowledge for teaching mathematics (CKTM) between speci...

The aim of this study was to explore the potential of ZORA robot-based interventions in rehabilitation and special education for children with severe physical disabilities. A two-centre explorative pilot study was carried out over a 2.5-month period involving children with severe physical disabilities with a developmental age ranging from 2 to 8 years. Children participated in six sessions with...

The purpose of this study was to further evaluate the outcomes of a model program that was designed to train current teachers of children with autism. Nine certified special education teachers participating in an intensive 5-day summer training program were taught a relatively large number of specific skills in two areas (preference assessment and direct teaching). The teachers met the mastery ...

Thinkers sympathetic to the autonomy of the special sciences – and emergentists in particular – typically think, not only that the special sciences are not reducible to the fundamental physical level, but also that the properties studied by the special sciences have causal powers of their own. More physicalistically inclined philosophers forcefully attack the latter idea. Their master argument ...

Special science generalizations admit of exceptions. Among the class of nonexceptionless special science generalizations, I distinguish (what I will call) minutis rectis (mr) generalizations from the more familiar category of ceteris paribus (cp) generalizations. I argue that the challenges involved in showing that mr generalizations can play the law role are underappreciated, and quite differe...

This article examines research literature that overlaps the fields of mathematics and special education, with a particular focus on students with disabilities at the middle and high school levels. We report the results of this literature by describing some of the inconsistencies or contradictions between the fields as well as the commonalities that exist in the research and recommendations. Fin...

In this work, the subclass of the function class S of analytic and bi-univalent functions is defined and studied in the open unit disc. Estimates for initial coefficients of Taylor- Maclaurin series of bi-univalent functions belonging these class are obtained. By choosing the special values for parameters and functions it is shown that the class reduces to several earlier known classes of analy...

in this paper, we consider convex quadratic semidefinite optimization problems and provide a primal-dual interior point method (ipm) based on a new kernel function with a trigonometric barrier term. iteration complexity of the algorithm is analyzed using some easy to check and mild conditions. although our proposed kernel function is neither a self-regular (sr) function nor logarithmic barrier ...

In engineering design, the end goal is the creation of an artifact, product, system, or process that fulfills some functional requirements at some desired level of performance. As such, knowledge of functionality is essential in a wide variety of tasks in engineering activities, including modeling, generation, modification, visualization, explanation, evaluation, diagnosis, and repair of these ...