TY - JOUR
T1 - Research and Policy on Disability
T2 - Linking Special Education to Developmental Science
AU - Farmer, Thomas W.
AU - Gatzke-Kopp, Lisa M.
AU - Lee, David L.
AU - Dawes, Molly
AU - Talbott, Elizabeth
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by grants from the Institute of Education Sciences (R305A120812; R305A140434) and the National Science Foundation (SES-1150844).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Bridging special education (SE) and developmental science recognizes their shared focus on individual adaptation, growth, and outcomes. Adaptation continuously aligns the proclivities of students and the opportunities of their contexts. Considerations for the adaptation of students with disabilities include developmental malleability, problem behavior, intervention supports, and SE services. Policy implications center on the need to focus on the individual in context in both research and intervention, merge data from the implementation of intensive interventions and person-oriented analysis to establish comprehensive frameworks that include a focus on neurophysiological processes, and train the next generation of SE leaders in intensive interventions and applied developmental science.
AB - Bridging special education (SE) and developmental science recognizes their shared focus on individual adaptation, growth, and outcomes. Adaptation continuously aligns the proclivities of students and the opportunities of their contexts. Considerations for the adaptation of students with disabilities include developmental malleability, problem behavior, intervention supports, and SE services. Policy implications center on the need to focus on the individual in context in both research and intervention, merge data from the implementation of intensive interventions and person-oriented analysis to establish comprehensive frameworks that include a focus on neurophysiological processes, and train the next generation of SE leaders in intensive interventions and applied developmental science.
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U2 - 10.1177/2372732215624217
DO - 10.1177/2372732215624217
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981274290
SN - 2372-7322
VL - 3
SP - 138
EP - 145
JO - Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
JF - Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
IS - 1
ER -