Special Needs

Schools increasingly need to be aware of a growing range of conditions and challenges that students confront. These challenges present school leaders with numerous considerations at various levels: funding, admissions, staffing, curriculum, health care and more. This pioneering issue serves as a roadmap for leaders as they navigate this complex terrain.

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Spring 2011

Articles From This Issue

What Can Schools Learn from Summer Camps About Special Education?

David Soloff, Ralph Schwartz, and Linda Hoffenberg
Enemies a Love Story: The Family’s Perspective

David Kalb
Bound to Succeed: Building Parent-Professional Collaboration

Shelly Christensen
Partnering with Parents to Turn Vision into Reality

Mariashi Groner
Inclusion Done Right—From the Top Down

Abbie Weisberg and Heather Tratt
Proactively Meeting the Needs of All Students in Day School

Sandy Miller-Jacobs
A Team Approach to Supporting Individualized Learning Needs

Lenore Layman
From the Editor

Barbara Davis
Inclusion for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Candice Baugh and Elizabeth Roberts
From the Desk of Arnee Winshall, RAVSAK Chair

Arnee Winshall
ADHD: What Teachers Need to Know

Melanie Fernandez
The Psychology of Mainstreaming

Refael S. Feuerstein
Teaching Inclusion: The Whys and Hows

Ruth Gorrin
Special Education in Jewish Day Schools: Lessons from the Public School Experience

Alan Oliff
Bookcase

RAVSAK Staff
To Include or Not? The Day School Dilemma

Beverly Bernstein
Funding Special Education: New Opportunities

Gail Norry
Raising Awareness, Changing Attitudes: The Time Is Now

Dori Frumin Kirshner and Meredith Englander Polsky
The Community Model for Special Education Services

Arlene Remz and Sue Schweber
A School within a School

Linda Zimmerman