Applied Learning Environment and Special Ed

The big picture of special education literature is that it resists easy classification. In popular imagination, of course, special education tends to refer to the needs of disabled rather than gifted students. But an element that all special-needs or exceptional students share is some unique factor that intrinsically sets them apart from the mainstream student population. The literature of special education addresses a variety of aspects, in the context of mandates to both fully include and accommodate special-needs students, can be organized around several broad areas

Articles that report the results of empirical tests of specific strategies and techniques may lend scientific weight to theories of learning and instructional practice. Morse and Schuster (2000) evaluate the eff

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businesses or community organizations, and at integrating, rather than simply labeling and potentially stigmatizing special-needs or exceptional populations. Kluth identifies benefits to students as enhanced teacher-student interaction and social, psychological, and vocational coping skills. But she cautions that more research is necessary "in order to fine-tune practice." Policy Issues At some level, public policy is implicated in virtually all special-education literature. That is because government mandates about inclusion and accommodative educational services to special-needs and therefore possibly disadvantaged children function as a caution against discriminatory behavior. In no other area of education do these implications seem to arouse such intensity of feeling than in venues outside the classroom, after school hours, dealing with interscholastic sports. It is in the realm of competitive athletics that parents, public policy advocates, and school administrators seem most intent on urging their views. Complicating such intensity of feeling is that issues of participation, inclusion, exclusion, and exceptionalism seem to make it into court with some regularity, although there is limited uniformity about whether a given
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