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Exceptional Children is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of special education.The editors-in-chief are Kathleen King Thorius (Indiana University), Endia J. Lindo (Texas Christian University), Patricia Martínez-Álvarez (Teachers College, Columbia University), Amanda L. Sullivan (University of Minnesota).
Teaching Exceptional Children (styled TEACHING Exceptional Children) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of special education. The editor-in-chief is Dawn A Rowe (East Tennessee State University). It was established in 1968 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Council for Exceptional Children.
Elizabeth E. Farrell (1870– October 15, 1932) was an American educator, first person to teach a class of special education students in an American public school, and first president of the Council for Exceptional Children.
Children identified as twice exceptional can exhibit a wide range of traits, many of them typical of gifted children. Like those who are gifted, twice-exceptional children often show greater asynchrony than average children (that is, a larger gap between their mental age and physical age). They are often intense and highly sensitive to their ...
In the United States "special needs" is a legal term applying in foster care, derived from the language in the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. It is a diagnosis used to classify children as needing more services than those children without special needs who are in the foster care system.
Special education in the United States enables students with exceptional learning needs to access resources through special education programs. "The idea of excluding students with any disability from public school education can be traced back to 1893, when the Massachusetts Supreme Court expelled a student merely due to poor academic ability". [1]
Young Exceptional Children is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of special education. The editor-in-chief is Rosa Milagros Santos (University of Illinois). It was established in 1997 and is currently published by SAGE Publications in association with the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional ...
The Guild for Exceptional Children is a nonprofit organization in Brooklyn which offers schooling and other services for children and adults with a disability. It identifies itself as a provider of direct and indirect services for developmentally delayed or disabled persons, from infancy through old age, and their families.