Very little research has been done on students’ perspectives sports courses in special schools. The state of knowledge about concrete teaching concepts inclusive physical education (PE) at mainstream schools is almost as incomplete. present study was designed to address these two desiderata. For this purpose, a concept developed that implemented the PE lesson one class school and Following this...

School choice has in the past decades gone from a fringe academic theory to become a mainstream policy option exercised by governments worldwide. In theory, school choice and competition can increase achievement through facilitating better matches between pupil and school (‘choice effects’), allowing the reallocation of pupils to better schools (‘school effects’), and forcing schools to compete...

als with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 1997) and the one proposed by the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD, 1994), a consortium of representatives from organizations interested in LD. In many countries there has been a dilemma concerning school membership for students with learning disabilities. Should these students be kept in mainstream schools or moved into special...

Our study aimed at comparing, over a period of 3 years, the effectiveness of three different educational approaches addressed to children with autism and severe mental retardation. The first one was a treatment and education of autistic and related communication handicapped children (TEACCH) program implemented in a residential center; the second was a TEACCH program implemented at home and at ...

The Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test (CAST) is a 37-item parental self-completion questionnaire to screen for autism spectrum conditions in research. Good test accuracy was demonstrated in studies with primary school aged children in mainstream schools. The aim of this study was to investigate the test-retest reliability of the CAST. Parents of 1000 children in years 1-6 in five mainstream prim...

Introduction The growing demand for inclusive practices within mainstream schools has resulted in classroom teachers having to take direct responsibility for the individual learning needs of all pupils within the setting. A recent report from the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED, 2004) found, however, that many schools in England and Wales still do not see themselves as having the skil...

BACKGROUND A manualized language therapy developed via a randomized controlled trial had proved efficacious in the short-term in developing expressive language for mainstream primary school children with persistent language impairment. This therapy had been delivered to a predetermined schedule by speech and language therapists or speech and language therapy assistants to children individually ...