BACKGROUND Reducing school absenteeism benefits the health and educational opportunities of young people. The Dutch intervention Medical Advice for Sick-reported Students (abbreviated as MASS) was developed to address school absenteeism due to sickness reporting, also called medical absenteeism. This study is part of a research project on the effectiveness of MASS and explores factors that infl...

The beliefs, skills, and intended practices of general (n 34) and special education (n 23) preservice teachers regarding planning and making accommodations for included students with mental retardation were investigated. Participants were drawn from teacher preparation programs that infused content related to inclusion into pre-existing courses. Results of a repeated-measures ANOVA indicated a ...

The current study investigated early elementary school teachers' beliefs and practices regarding the role of Executive Functions (EFs) in reading and arithmetic. A new research questionnaire was developed and judged by professionals in the academia and the field. Reponses were obtained from 144 teachers from Israel. Factor analysis divided the questionnaire into three valid and reliable subscal...

The purpose of this study was to explore the learning outcome of vocational special education students with the teaching strategy of "Combining Situated Learning Theory with E-learning", as well as the opinions of experimental group students toward E-learning. Using the class as a unit, the students were divided into two groups: the experimental and control group. Students in both groups took t...

113 The intervention strategies associated with applied behavior analysis (ABA) repeatedly have been demonstrated as effective techniques for shaping behavior and teaching new skills to children with disabilities. While ABA has been a mainstay of early intervention in special education for decades, occupational therapists typically do not receive training in ABA or the instructional strategies ...

This article tackles the issue of the use of Digital Learning Resources (DLR) in the education of students with learning problems. It presents an argument for the employment of DLR in the education of these students and it raises additional concerns in the choice of these resources when used with students with learning disabilities. DLR are of paramount importance in today’s teaching and learni...

The School Health Initiative: Environment, Learning, and Disease (SHIELD) study used a probability sample of children (second through fifth grades) from two low-income and racially mixed neighborhoods of Minneapolis, Minnesota, to assess childhood environmental health. Children were eligible to participate in SHIELD regardless of whether they or their families spoke a foreign language, their ho...

D. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, and Mark E. Courtney examine the transition to adulthood for youth involved in social service and justice systems during childhood and adolescence. They survey the challenges faced by youth in the mental health system, the foster care system, the juvenile justice system, the criminal justice system, and special education, and by youth with physical disabiliti...

BACKGROUND Early detection and intervention seem to improve development in autistic children, and teachers form an important part of their early social environment. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess baseline knowledge and misconceptions regarding autism among school teachers and evaluate factors influencing their knowledge. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional ...

PURPOSE To review the different data collection options available to school-based researchers and to present the preliminary findings on the use of audio-enhanced personal digital assistants (APDA) for use in school-based data collection. METHODS A newly developed APDA system was used to collect baseline data from a sample of 645 seventh grade students enrolled in a school-based intervention ...