This project was developed to address the need for a developmentally appropriate play-based curriculum, in the early childhood special education field. It draws from a combination of experience and current research defining and supporting best practic . . .

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 . . .