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Now Have We Gotten It Right?: Exploring The Special Education Referral Process, Janine Sue Wahl
Now Have We Gotten It Right?: Exploring The Special Education Referral Process, Janine Sue Wahl
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This qualitative inquiry explored the special education referral process as understood and implemented by two first grade teachers in a rural school. Both were interviewed and their classes observed; team meetings about their referrals were attended and recorded. The results of these observations were examined through the beliefs and assumptions about teaching and learning by the two teachers.
Each teacher referred two students into the process during this study, but none of the four students was found eligible for special education services during first grade. Through a cross-case analysis of the teachers and these students, distinct differences and commonalities were …
Disability And Difference: Adolescents' Interpretations Based On Television Viewing, Paula Anne Schmidt
Disability And Difference: Adolescents' Interpretations Based On Television Viewing, Paula Anne Schmidt
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This study was conducted in order to decipher adolescent interpretations of disability that were portrayed on television. Employing qualitative methodology and methods, I conducted focus groups with adolescents during which they viewed television programs containing portrayals of characters with disabilities, or otherwise defining differences. The sixth grade participants freely shared their perspectives of the programs and characters in addition to their thoughts about the nature of difference in general.
Although I originally intended to interpret adolescents' reactions toward characters with disabilities, I found that it was not only characters with disabilities that they viewed in a judgmental manner. As the …