Asking Questions in Biology: Discovery versus Knowledge

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.06.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Strategies
  5. Appendix
  6. Works Cited
  7. Endnotes

Asking Questions about Learning Disabilities: A Gateway to Self-Determination

Benjamin Barnett-Perry

Published September 2012

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Endnotes

1. Michael J. Ward, "Coming of Age in the Age of Self-Determination: A Historical and Personal Perspective" in Self-Determination Across the Life Span: Independence and Choice for People with Disabilities, ed. Deanna J. Sands et al. (Baltimore, Maryland: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1996), 14.

2. Michael J. Ward, "Coming of Age in the Age of Self-Determination: A Historical and Personal Perspective" in Self-Determination Across the Life Span: Independence and Choice for People with Disabilities, ed. Deanna J. Sands et al. (Baltimore, Maryland: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1996), 12-13.

3. Heather M. Hartman-Hall, and David A.F. Haaga. "College Students' Willingness to Seek Help for Their Learning Disabilities." Learning Disability Quarterly 25, no. 4 (2002): 263-264.

4. Michael L. Wehmeyer, Martin Agran, and Carolyn Hughes. Teaching self-determination to students with disabilities: basic skills for successful transition. (Baltimore: P.H. Brookes Pub. Co., 1998), 3-4.

5. Gloria D. Campbell-Whatley. "Teaching Students About Their Disabilities: Increasing Self-Determination Skills and Self-Concept." International Journal of Special Education 23, no. 2 (2008): 137.

6. Michael L. Wehmeyer, "Self-Determination as an Educational Outcome: Why is it Important to Children, Youth, and Adults with Disabilities?" in Self-Determination Across the Life Span: Independence and Choice for People with Disabilities, ed. Deanna J. Sands et al. (Baltimore, Maryland: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1996), 24

7. Sharon Field. "Self-Determination Instructional Strategies for Youth with Learning Disabilities." Journal of Learning Disabilities 29.40 (1996): 40-43.

8. Michael L. Wehmeyer et al. "Essential Characteristics of Self Determined Behavior of Individuals With Mental Retardation." American Journal on Mental Retardation 100, no. 6 (1996): 632.

9. Michael J. Ward, "Coming of Age in the Age of Self-Determination: A Historical and Personal Perspective" in Self-Determination Across the Life Span: Independence and Choice for People with Disabilities, ed. Deanna J. Sands et al. (Baltimore, Maryland: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1996), 12-13.

10. Michael L. Wehmeyer, "Self-Determination as an Educational Outcome: Why is it Important to Children, Youth, and Adults with Disabilities?" in Self-Determination Across the Life Span: Independence and Choice for People with Disabilities, ed. Deanna J. Sands et al. (Baltimore, Maryland: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1996), 29

11. Michael J. Ward, "Coming of Age in the Age of Self-Determination: A Historical and Personal Perspective" in Self-Determination Across the Life Span: Independence and Choice for People with Disabilities, ed. Deanna J. Sands et al. (Baltimore, Maryland: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1996), 15.

12. U.S. Department of Education. "Free Appropriate Public Education for Students With Disabilities: Requirements Under Section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973." U.S. Department of Education. www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/edlite-FAPE504.html

13. NICHCY.org. "Categories of Disability Under IDEA." National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities. nichcy.org/disability/categories

14. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV-TR.. 4th ed. (Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 2000), 69.

15. Ibid, 69.

16. Ibid, 69.

17. Mary L. White et al, "Autism Spectrum Disorders: Historical, Legislative, and Current Perspectives" in Educating Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, ed. Dianne Zager et al. (New York, NY: Routledge, 2012), 3.

18. Chloe Silverman. Understanding autism: parents, doctors, and the history of a disorder. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 46.

19. DisabilityRightsCA.org. "Special Education Rights and Responsibilities." DisabilityRightsCA.org. www.disabilityrightsca.org/pubs/504001Ch03.

20. E. Amanda Boutot, and Brenda Smith Myles. Autism spectrum disorders: foundations, characteristics, and effective strategies. (Boston: Pearson, 2011), 209.

21. Stuart Murray. Autism. (London: Routledge, 2012) 16, 64.

22. Ibid, 64.

23. Bruce Shapiro et al, "Specific Learning Disabilities" in Children with disabilities. 5th ed., ed. Mark l. Batshaw, M.D.. (Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, 2002), 420.

24. Ibid, 421.

25. Ibid, 421.

26. Ibid, 420.

27. DisabilityRightsCA.org. "Special Education Rights and Responsibilities." DisabilityRightsCA.org. www.disabilityrightsca.org/pubs/504001Ch03.pdf

28. Bruce Shapiro et al, "Specific Learning Disabilities" in Children with disabilities. 5th ed., ed. Mark l. Batshaw, M.D.. (Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, 2002), 426.

29. Kenneth A. Kavale et al, "Defining Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: The Quest for Affirmation" in Handbook of Emotional & Behavioral Difficulties, ed. Peter Clough et al. (London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2005), 45.

30. Ibid, 46.

31. Barbara Prashnig. The power of diversity: new ways of learning and teaching through learning styles. (New ed. Stafford: Network Educational Press, 2004) 11.

32. Rita Dunn. "Understanding the Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles Model and the Need For Individual Diagnosis and Prescription." Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International: Overcoming Learning Difficulties 6, no. 3 (1990): 223-224.

33. Kenneth A. Kavale, and Steven R. Forness. "Substance over style: Assessing the efficacy of modality testing and teaching." Exceptional Children 53, no. 3 (1987): 233.

34. Perry D. Klein. "Rethinking the multiplicity of cognitive resources and curricular representations: Alternatives to 'learning styles' and 'multiple intelligences'." Journal of Curriculum Studies 35, no. 1 (2003): 45-48.

35. Ibid, 48.

36. Ibid, 72-73.

37. Michael J. Ward, "Coming of Age in the Age of Self-Determination: A Historical and Personal Perspective" in Self-Determination Across the Life Span: Independence and Choice for People with Disabilities, ed. Deanna J. Sands et al. (Baltimore, Maryland: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1996), 12-13.

38. David W. Macdonald. The Encyclopedia of Mammals. (New York, NY: Facts on File, 1984) 124-129.

39. Ibid, 130-132

40. Ibid, 118-119

41. Dan Rothstein, and Luz Santana. Make just one change: teach students to ask their own questions. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Education Press, 2011) 25-26.

42. Ibid, 15.

43. Sharon Field. "Self-Determination Instructional Strategies for Youth with Learning Disabilities." Journal of Learning Disabilities 29.40 (1996): 42-43.

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