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Curriculum For Caring: Service Learning With Behaviorally Disordered Students, Abe Nicolaou, Larry K. Brendtro
Curriculum For Caring: Service Learning With Behaviorally Disordered Students, Abe Nicolaou, Larry K. Brendtro
Disabilities
The difficulty that seriously emotionally disturbed persons experience in forming or maintaining effective interpersonal relationships is an almost universal component of federal and state definitions for this disability. Yet, in the face of this impediment in the social domain, our curricular approaches in behavior disorders have been almost exclusively individualistic. While we are able to document our successes in instructing to precisely measured objectives, we too often have fallen short of the goal of instilling prosocial, responsible, caring interpersonal behavior in troubled children and adolescents.
Nonhandicapped Peers As Tutors Of Severely Behaviorally Disordered Students, William Stainback, Susan Stainback
Nonhandicapped Peers As Tutors Of Severely Behaviorally Disordered Students, William Stainback, Susan Stainback
Disabilities
Peer tutoring is not a new concept and there are a number of excellent reviews of research on the topic (Ehly & Larsen, 1980; Strain. 1981). However, there is little or no literature that directly relates nonhandicapped peer tutoring to the integration of severely behaviorally disordered students into regular schools. It is important that this void in the literature be corrected since increasing numbers of severely behaviorally disordered students are being integrated into regular neighborhood public schools. Many of these students require individual help with a wide array of rather ordinary behaviors such as staying on tasks, finding their way …