Your ability to listen to a phone message in one ear while a friend is talking into your other ear—and comprehend what both are saying—is an important communication skill that’s heavily influenced by your genes, say researchers of the National...

Greater College Attendance, Lower Crime and Depression By the time they reached adulthood, graduates of an intensive early childhood education program for poor children showed higher educational attainment, lower rates of serious crime and...

Forms, Tables, Checklists, and Procedures for Special Education Teachers Introduction Welcome to NASET's Forms, Tables, Checklists, and Procedures . This section of our site consists of numerous forms, tables, checklists, and procedures for...

Behavior Management Series See Available Issues and Behaviors Discussed - CLICK HERE Introduction NASET’s Behavior Management Series is a unique guide for all teachers in helping to understand what their student’s behavior really means and how...

The National Institute of Mental Health reported today that youth who are going to develop psychosis can be identified before their illness becomes full-blown 35 percent of the time if they meet widely accepted criteria for risk, but that...

NASET Q & A Corner Go to the PDP Menu The NASET Q & A Corner is an e-publication that presents: (1) some of the most frequently asked questions by members about special education (2) answers from experts in the field on the questions addressed....

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...

School-Wide Strategies for Managing Reading The ability to read allows individuals access to the full range of a culture's artistic and scientific knowledge. Reading is a complex act. Good readers are able fluently to decode the words on a...

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...

Findings Could Help Scientists Study Consciousness People with tune deafness aren’t able to tell when a musician accidentally strikes the wrong note in a song, but their brains know the difference. Researchers from the National Institute on...