Welcome to NICHCY's Research Center! Looking for research-based information to
guide your work with children with disabilities? You've come to
the right place! We're pleased to connect you to the knowledge base
that the field has accumulated over years of investigation and practice.
Be sure to check back often as we continue to gather, review, and
organize this information!
Assessment and
Accommodations What accommodations are appropriate for which students?
How do accommodations affect student learning and their performance on
tests? This Evidence for Education addresses these and other
questions and explores the research base in this area. Commentary from
education professionals and examples from the field are included to highlight
practical tools and resources designed to help educators and families
determine appropriate accommodations for children with disabilities.
What
Works: Can We Say? This NICHCY Connections page takes a look at an
array of topics in education and the research we
have on each. We've focused primarily on published meta-analyses and syntheses
that add up the evidence to date on effective practice in each area.
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the NICHCY Research Panel NICHCY is now deeply involved in collecting
and disseminating information about effective service delivery for
children with disabilities, whether that's early intervention or
special education. This is intended to improve programs and services
for the children, including infants and toddlers. There's a lot
of information out there on effective practice, and sifting through
it and identifying what will be useful to you is a huge task. To
help us, we have established a Research Panel of top-notch researchers
and experts in the field. Together they've been a tremendous asset
to the work we do and we'd like you to know more about them. More...
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Research-to-Practice Database See what
the best-available research has to say about which academic and behavioral
interventions work best for children with disabilities. We even provide
"Research Connections" to examples of practice based on the
research. Search...
Research News
New Report Recommends Transition Practices for Young Children: A new report from the National Early Childhood Transition Center (NECTC) entitled Recommended Transition Practices for Young Children, provides findings from a national validation survey. The report discusses 21 transition practices validated by early childhood and early childhood special education professionals. - NECTAC eNotes
‘Reading First’ Study Finds No Clear Answers:
As Reading First nears the six-year mark, no clear empirical picture has emerged of how well the federal program is doing nationally to bring struggling readers to proficiency.
- Education Week
New Findings on Rett Syndrome from NIH: A study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has transformed scientists' understanding of Rett syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes autistic behavior and other disabling symptoms. Until now, scientists thought that the gene behind Rett syndrome was an "off" switch, or repressor, for other genes. But the new study, published in Science, shows that it is an "on" switch for a startlingly large number of genes. - NIH News
Parental Involvement Boosts Student Achievement:
University of New Hampshire research shows that students do much better in school when their parents are actively involved in their education.
- The Associated Press
Differences Found in the Brains of People with Autism:
A new publication in the journal Brain describes significant anatomical differences in a facial processing area of the brain in people with autism. - Autism Speaks
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