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How can teachers promote the participation of students with severe disabilities in school activities while providing opportunities for skill enhancement and fun? This article describes a five-step process for addressing priority functional and academic...

Ensuring students with severe disabilities access the rich relationship and learning opportunities available within general education classrooms is an important—but challenging—endeavor. Although one-to-one paraprofessionals often accompany students in...

Technology, such as speech generating devices (SGD), offer a wide variety of ways for students with significant disabilities to independently interact with their environment. However, to be independent, students with severely limited mobility need some...

Students with significant disabilities require adaptations to the general curriculum in order to access the content and make progress toward IEP goals. Adapted texts are commonly used to provide access to grade-level literature. Adapted texts usually...

Enhancing the social and learning experiences of students with severe disabilities in inclusive classrooms has been a long-standing focus of research, legislative, and advocacy efforts. The authors used a randomized controlled experimental design to...

The authors conducted 324 full-class-length observations of 108 high school students with severe disabilities in general education classes, focusing analyses on how often students were present during class and in proximity to peers without disabilities...

Recreational activities are an important part of anyone’s quality of life, owing to the various benefits of participation (e.g., social, physical). For individuals with significant disabilities, engagement in leisure skills continues to be a low priority...

A recommended practice in the field of severe disabilities is involving students in their specialized health care procedures; however, little is known about how this practice is occurring in schools. The purpose of this qualitative multiple-case study was...

The purpose of this conceptual replication study was to investigate the efficacy of an early literacy intervention when it was implemented by special educators in general education classrooms with students in the class participating in the lessons. The...

A complete and robust understanding of number takes time to develop but can be achieved through numerous opportunities to learn and practice counting with a variety of experiences and materials. Helping students with significant cognitive disabilities...