Patricia Alvarez McHatton

TL;DR: In this article, the potential role that caring teacher-student relationships have in achieving better outcomes for students with emotional and behavioral disorders within their current educational contexts is examined, based on the current literature on caring teacherstudent relationships.

TL;DR: The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB, 2002) and the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004) have resulted in greater numbers of students with disabilities (SWDs) receiving most of their instruction in general education settings.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the experiences of stigma-related discrimination in 50 Puerto Rican and Mexican single mothers of young children with disabilities, and found that professionals and strangers were responsible for the majority of the discrimination.

TL;DR: Code switching includes the use of complete sentences, phrases, and borrowed words from another language (Brice & Brice, 2000) as discussed by the authors, which is a common linguistic phenomenon noted among bilingual population.

TL;DR: This paper explored and compared perceptions of elementary and secondary education majors toward the inclusion of students with disabilities in their classrooms and revealed differing perceptions between majors and indicate several areas in which in general education teacher candidates have voiced concerns over their levels of preparation in serving exceptional learners, a concern that may heighten their fear of the unknown when faced with increasing numbers of students having disabilities.