Allan Beane

Clinical and Cultural Issues in Diagnosing and Treating Child Victims of Peer Abuse

Examined are clinical and cultural issues in assessing and treating child victims of peer abuse. Profiles for both victims and perpetrators are discussed as are clinical patterns that may emerge in adulthood. Clinical trauma accommodation is discussed to offer the processing and adaptation to peer victimization. A clinical algorithm is discussed to provide the clinician with a pathway for assessment, treatment and follow-up for children who experience peer victimization.

Personnel Preparation in Special Education: A Synthesis of Distance Education and On-Campus Instruction

An alternative special education certification program incorporating traditional instructional approaches with distance learning was created to address the needs of personnel shortages in rural areas of west Kentucky. Participant selection, instructional methods, and the rationale behind this program are described. Advantages and disadvantages of achieving the goal of providing quality alternative programs in the preparation of special education personnel are discussed.

Alternative Methods of Communicating with Parents.

Nontraditional forms of parent-teacher interaction can maximize school success.

Try Telephone Answering Machines

Parents are one of the most valuable resources teachers have in helping students develop the skills and abilities necessary to function in todays world. Parents can have a tremendous impact on a students self-esteem, socialization, and academic performance. For these reasons, special educators are constantly searching for practical and cost-effective approaches to communication that will foster viable parentteacher partnership strategies to facilitate instruction.

Handicapped Students in Regular Vocational Education: Three Issues.

Numerous federal laws and judicial decisions have underscored the recent governmental concerns for providing increased vocational education experiences to handicapped students. This governmental concern, coupled with the increased interest of professionals in special and vocational education, has resulted in expanding opportunities for handicapped individuals to gain vocationai skills necessary for empioyment. Though more opportunities exist than ever before, many school districts have found it difficult to actually develop and implement vocational programs to serve handicapped youngsters. An especially critical problem is the relatively low number of handicapped students being integrated or mainstreamed into regular vocational programs. This is unfortunate, as regular vocational education classes

Loss of the Safety Signal in Childhood and Adolescent Trauma

Bullying experiences in the schools is something most children encounter in one form or another during school age, but too many children are persistently mistreated for extended periods of time and find it devastating (Miller and Beane 1997). Children struggle with being called names, being picked upon, and with being rejected or excluded among peers and in the school environment. Even though bullying has been around since time began, little attention has been given to the long-term effects of bullying behavior on both the victim and the perpetrator. Research studies, mostly conducted in European countries, including England, Ireland, and Sweden, are beginning to address the long-range consequences of bullying behavior on children.