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Are We Preparing Special Educators for the Issues Facing Schools in the 1990s
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This article reviewed the literature on social issues related to students with special needs, and the results of a survey to determine if special education teacher preparation programs offer or require coursework about these four social problems are reported.Abstract:
School personnel are faced with added demands as a result of the many problems facing sociey, including teen sexuality, HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, and homelessness. The literature on these topics is reviewed as it relates to students with special needs, and the results of a survey to determine if special education teacher preparation programs offer or require coursework about these four social problems are reported. Although there was wide variability in the coverage that special education teacher preparation programs were providing on these social issues, questions are raised about the thoroughness of the preparation. The implications for special education teacher preparation programs are discussed.read more
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Teacher Beliefs, Professional Preparation, and Practices regarding Exceptional Students and Sexuality Education.
TL;DR: This study supports collaboration between health educators and special education teachers to adapt existing sexuality curricula for students with special needs, improve professional preparation of special Education teachers to teach sexuality education, and to more effectively implement comprehensive school health education through the Coordinated School Health Program model to special education students.
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Preparing On-the-Job Teachers for Urban Schools: Implications for Teacher Training.
Nancy Burstein,Sue Sears +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effectiveness of a program in the preparation and retention of on-the-job teachers to serve students with mild-moderate disabilities in urban schools and found that teachers developed competency over time and viewed seminars and on-site assistance as critical sources of support.
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Are special educators prepared to meet the sex education needs of their students? a progress report:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors surveyed the directors/chairpersons of special education teacher preparation programs regarding the amount and type of coursework on sex education that their students received during their SED teacher preparation and compared the responses to responses to the same survey from 1980.
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Wake up call: pregnant and parenting teens with disabilities
TL;DR: A literature review indicated little research on the incidences of pregnancy and parenting among teenagers with disabilities, similarities and differences in their educational needs when compared to their non-disabled peers as mentioned in this paper.
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Why does family homelessness occur? A case-control study.
Ellen L. Bassuk,Lynn Rosenberg +1 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that solutions to family homelessness in the current housing market require an increase in the supply of decent affordable housing, income maintenance, and assistance from social welfare agencies focused on rebuilding supportive relationships.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the state of the art in the field of early intervention in special education, focusing on the following: 1. Foundations of Contemporary Practice 1. Conceptual Issues Practical Issues Issues Reflected in Practice Education at the Margins 2. Special Education in Context Education's Mission School and Society Goals and Objectives of Education The Changing and Unchanging Face of Education Legal Basis for Special Education Special Education: Why Now and What For? 3.
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Homeless children: A neglected population.
Ellen Bassuk,Lenore Rubin +1 more
TL;DR: Characteristics of homeless children were assessed in interviews with 82 homeless families, including 156 children, living in 14 Massachusetts family shelters, finding developmental delays, severe depression and anxiety, and learning difficulties were common among the children.
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Maternal cocaine abuse and effect on the newborn.
TL;DR: No evident symptomatology or signs of teratogenicity on infants born to cocaine-abusing mothers are observed, although this is encouraging, and more studies, including Brazelton assessment, and long-term follow-up of infants born of cocaine-ABusing mothers is necessary.
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The teratogenicity of cocaine
TL;DR: Pregnancy rats and mice received high doses of cocaine hydrochloride by intraperitoneal injection and despite treatment periods which included most of organogenesis, no increase in congenital abnormalities was observed.