Evidence-Based Practice

As we began our tenure as editors of Exceptional Children (EC) in 2023, we committed to a set of interconnected goals, aligned with the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC's) mission, to realize...

The Individualized Student Instruction (ISI) intervention was designed to help teachers increase their use of differentiated core reading instruction, to optimize student growth by providing...

Delivering high quality instruction grounded in evidence-based practice is a critical responsibility of special education teachers. One challenge for teachers is determining if they are implementing...

Students with extensive support needs (ESN) are a group of students with multiple disabilities including significant expressive and receptive language impairments that make it difficult for them to...

Although the field of special education has historically focused on improving outcomes for students with disabilities, research, practice, and policy has evolved over several “eras.” The contemporary...

This paper describes the implementation of Check In Check Out (CICO) as an evidence-based practice to support students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) within educational settings. CICO...

Teachers value practices that are supported by research (Buren et al., 2021). However, research often is not shared in a way that helps teachers use these evidence-based practices (EBPs) to meet the...

This View From the Field column is the third in a series describing the important contributions of the field of implementation science in supporting educators in implementing evidence-based practices...

The Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is dedicated to improving outcomes for individuals with specific learning disabilities (LD) through research...