If teachers in the 21st century desire to create a critical impact on their students and democracy, then they must strive to make their classrooms more democratically centered. They must actively cultivate an experience within their classroom that fos . . .

A local non-public school in Sacramento specializes in working with students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD). In the last four years the size of the school has doubled, resulting in less educated and less experienced teachers and parapro . . .

The expansion of charter schools, fueled largely by school choice advocates, has provided many prospective students families with access to alternatives from their traditional public school options. However, comparisons of academic performance between . . .

Despite all of the existing social skills curricula available to teachers, there is a lack of material that pertains specifically to the needs of students with emotional and social disabilities (ED). This project is intended to address that void by wa . . .

Approximately 90% of parents who have children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) report that their children have considerably more feeding problems and eat a significantly narrower range of foods than their children without ASD (Ahearn, Castine, . . .

When a student with disabilities transfers from community college to a post-secondary institution, there is no guarantee that the student will be able to transfer in all of her or his accommodations. Community college students may assume that all of t . . .

Both research partners discussed in detail with their advisor the collaboration that would occur at the beginning of the project. Collaboration occurred at all levels of the project, from creating research questions, sending initial emails to contacts . . .

There are a high number of incarcerated youth within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) under the division of juvenile justice correctional detention centers, with a large percentage of these young individuals qualifyin . . .

Developing and implementing effective service delivery models for students with special needs is both challenging and critical. Emerging research supports the use of co-teaching strategies during which a general and special educator share roles and re . . .

The case study details play behavior for a first grade student with an autism spectrum disorder when involved in an Integrated Play Group (IPG) at Wheatland Elementary School in Wheatland, CA. The case study intended to illustrate the qualitative chan . . .

Following high school, students with disabilities continue to lag behind peers without disabilities in success with employment, independent living, community engagement, and post-secondary education. Despite decades of best practice research, the fiel . . .

The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics and behaviors of inclusive general education elementary teachers who were including a student with significant disabilities in their classes. In-person interviews of the three general educa . . .

Analogical reasoning refers to one’s ability to derive the relation between stimuli, a process necessary for completing Aristotle’s proportional analogies, A:B::C:D. The ability to engage in complex reasoning of this nature would benefit many students . . .

Developing appropriate literacy programs for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an important task for special educators. Due to deficits in the areas of social communication and behavior, students with ASD learn differently from their typ . . .

Over the past three decades, the number of students with learning disabilities enrolling in post-secondary education has increased (Astin et al., 1988). Recent estimates indicate that 45% of students with learning disabilities transition to some form . . .

Previous research has shown that peer mediated approaches have been one of the most effective types of social intervention for school age children with autism. The present study examined the effectiveness of a peer mediated play intervention for incre . . .

The purpose of this study was to provide insight into the subjective experiences of five wives of combat war veterans diagnosed with PTSD attending college. The setting was a state university in Northern California. The wives were recruited from the o . . .

There is limited research examining the perspectives of co-teachers on the factors that may influence their selection and implementation of specific co-teaching strategies. In practice, the general and special education co-teachers often rely on the o . . .

There is a lack of research demonstrating self-determination skills being taught at the elementary level. This pre-post design study examined the impact of implementing a self-determination curriculum unit to two groups of fourth graders, ages nine to . . .

This study utilized a survey design to determine paraeducators’ views on professional development: what works, what does not, and what could be done to make it better, from the perspective of the paraeducators themselves. The sample included fifty-thr . . .