What is spinal muscular atrophy? Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a group of hereditary diseases that progressively destroys motor neurons—nerve cells in the brain stem and spinal cord that control essential skeletal muscle activity such as...

Well Siblings Share Some of the Same Behavioral, Neural Features The brain’s fear hub likely becomes abnormally small in the most severely socially impaired males with autism spectrum disorders, researchers funded by the National Institutes of...

WEEK in REVIEW Articles of Interest in Special Education That Were Reported This Week < Welcome to NASET's WEEK in REVIEW . Here, we provide you with some of the most interesting issues that have happened this week in the field of special...

Whether teaching a class of special-education students or working with individual students in a general-education classroom, as a special-education teacher, it's your job to ensure that these students learn despite their disabilities. You may...

School Description: Woodhouse Academy is an academic and therapeutic private day school designed to meet the needs of adolescents (Grades 6-12) with average or above intelligence who are challenged by learning difficulties. They are youngsters...

School Description: Woodhouse Academy is an academic and therapeutic private day school designed to meet the needs of adolescents (Grades 6-12) with average or above intelligence who are challenged by learning difficulties. They are youngsters...

Discipline of Students with Special Needs in Schools-old Introduction According to the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (2023), the general belief among teachers and administrators is that the Individuals with Disabilities...

Michelle Curtin, DO, FAAP Christine Raches, PsyD, HSPP, BCBA, IMH-E Indiana University School of Medicine Abstract Children and young adults who require special education services within schools often bring with them a complex medical history....

dentity springs from how we internalize what we are, starting with our parents and continuing with what we learn from friends and teachers in school. Being Cajun ties us to a culture. Blackness comes from race, and Jewishness is an expression...

Alexander M. Oppong, Ph.D Joyce Adu, M.Phil Daniel Fobi, M.Phil Emmanuel K. Acheampong, M.Phil - University of Education, Winneba, Ghana Abstract Guided by Tinto’s (1975) model of student retention or departure, this phenomenological study...