Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Listed below are some topics on which our clearinghouse frequently receives questions. Responses include citations from the ERIC database as well as other relevant information, where appropriate.

Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD)

• Attention deficit disorders (ADD)
  
• Attention deficit disorders (ADD) and legal issues
  
• Attention deficit disorders (ADD) and ritalin
  
• Gifted students and attention deficit disorders
  

Developmental Disabilities

• Autism
  
• Asperger syndrome
  
• Cerebral palsy
  
• Down syndrome
  
• Epilepsy
  
• Mental retardation
  
• Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD)
  
• Sex education for students with disabilities

Early Childhood

• Assessment issues in early childhood special education
  
• Early childhood models/demonstration programs
  
• Early intervention and family involvement
• Inclusive practices in early childhood settings
  
• Teaching strategies for early childhood special education settings
  

Gifted Education

• Alternate assessments
  
• Assessing and nurturing the talents of young gifted children
  
• Classroom/program placement and gifted students
  
• Curriculum compacting
  
• Developing appropriate curriculum for gifted students
  
• Developing a program for the gifted in a school system
  
• Early entrance to college
  
• Enrichment activities for gifted students
  
• Evaluating gifted programs
  
• Funding for gifted education
  
• Gifted children with disabilities; children with disabilities and giftedness
  
• Gifted students and attention deficit disorders
  
• Gifted students and learning disabilities
  
• Gifted students and learning disabilities (diagnostic tests)
• Gifted students in the regular education (inclusive) classroom
  
• Gifted students in the regular education (inclusive) classroom (grouping practices)
  
• History of gifted education
  
• Identifying gifted students (for use by school districts)
  
• Identifying students for GT programs (for use by parents)
  
• Legal issues and gifted education
  
• Longitudinal studies on gifted students
  
• Models or “best practices” for teaching the gifted
  
• Problem-based learning
  
• Racial and ethnic minorities and gifted education
  
• Resilience
  
• Teaching gifted ESL students
  
• The value of gifted programs

Inclusion/Mainstreaming

• Collaboration between regular and special education teachers
  
• Costs of special education vs regular education classes
  
• Gifted students in the regular education (inclusive) classroom (grouping practices)
  
• Including students with severe disabilities
  
• Inclusive practices in early childhood settings
  
• Long-term effects of inclusive programs
  
• Mainstreaming/inclusion
  
• Pros and cons of inclusion

Instruction in Content Areas

• Adapted physical education
  
• Art activities and students with disabilities
  
• Foreign language instruction for students with learning disabilities
  
• Lesson plans for students with disabilities
  
• Life skills for students with mental retardation
  
• Music for students with disabilities
  
• Sex education for students with disabilities
  
• Science for students with disabilities
  
• Social studies for students with learning disabilities
  
• Writing skills for students with disabilities
  

Instruction/Management

• Alternate assessments for students with disabilities
  
• Assistive technology
  
• Collaboration between regular and special education teachers
  
• Class size in special education
  
• Lesson plans for students with disabilities
  
• Home schooling
  
• Managing disruptive students in the classroom
  
• Mediation as an alternative to due process procedures
  
• Paraprofessionals in the classroom
  
• School discipline
  
• School-to-work transition
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
  
• Sensory integration
• Supplementary and related services in special education
  
• Teaching postsecondary students with learning disabilities

Learning Disabilities

• Adults with learning disabilities
  
• Aphasia
  
• Apraxia
  
• Central auditory processing disorders (CAPD)
  
• Dyslexia
  
• Dyspraxia
  
• Foreign language requirements in high school and students with learning disabilities
  
• Gifted students and learning disabilities
  
• Identifying learning disabilities in culturally diverse students
  
• Learning disabilities
• Teaching postsecondary students with learning disabilities

Medical/Physical

• Blindness/visual impairments
  
• Chromosome abnormalities; genetic disorders
  
• Deafness; hard of hearing
  
• Fetal alcohol syndrome/prenatal substance abuse
  
• Fragile X syndrome
  
• Lesch-Nyhan disease
  
• Muscular dystrophy
  
• Prader-Willi syndrome
  
• Tourette syndrome
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Williams syndrome

Mental Health

• Behavior disorders
  
• Bipolar disorder
  
• Emotional disturbances
  
• Oppositional defiant disorder

Other

• Financial aid for (postsecondary) students with disabilities
  
• History of special education
  
• History of special education legislation
  
• Special education statistics
• Siblings of children with disabilities
• Teachers with disabilities