About five years ago, when his younger twin brothers reached their thirties, Giacomo Vivanti started to wonder how the pair, who both have autism, would fare in middle and old age. In particular, he wondered if they might be prone to develop...

NICHCY's Evidence for Education looks at the research foundations for strategy instruction and some of the most well-known approaches to teaching strategies Strategy Instruction is a powerful student-centered approach to teaching that is backed...

This is an updated 2006 guide created by the National Dissemination Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities to some directories and listings of summer camps. Some resources identify camps available to all children and some are...

WASHINGTON, D.C.(April 14, 2005) – Testifying today before the House Subcommittee on Education Reform, representatives of high quality Head Start early childhood programs described the strategies that have made them successful and outlined...

For children who struggle to learn language, the choice between various interventions may matter less than the intensity and format of the intervention, a new study sponsored by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication...

A recent study provides evidence that autism affects the functioning of virtually the entire brain, and is not limited to the brain areas involved with social interactions, communication behaviors, and reasoning abilities, as had been...

Spellings Announces New Special Education Guidelines, Details Workable, "Common-Sense" Policy to Help States Implement No Child Left Behind Guidelines reflect the latest scientific research to help students with disabilities States continue to...

Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS) Data Available The Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS) is a study of school-age students funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in the U.S....

For American students with disabilities, class sizes are increasing, services are waning and providers are disappearing. More than half of parents who have children with disabilities and responded to a survey say their schools have altered...

December 22, 2004 National Association of Special Education Teachers 1201 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20004 Dear NASET Members, I am inspired by the task you perform in educating children with disabilities and the...