EDUC 521

JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS

You will conduct 4 reviews during this course. Your Journal Article Reviews must involve critiquing and reviewing selected articles on specific topics. Each review must be 1–2 double-spaced pages and follow current APA format. You must choose an article from 1 of the professional journals of special education listed below.

Note the articles must be recent (within the last 5 years), and the article topic for each review must be relevant to a topic in the assigned module/week’s chapter readings. 

Therefore, the topics for each journal article review are as follows:

Journal Article Review #1 – Individualized Education Program  Journal Article Review #2 – Learning Disabilities 

Journal Article Review #3 – ADHD or Emotional Behavior Disorders

Journal Article Review #4 – Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or Communication Disorders

When composing your reviews, practice using graduate professional writing. Do not begin with "This article is about..." Instead, open the review with a strong thesis statement and summarize the author's main points in the first paragraph. Using third person, state your personal reaction to the article in the final paragraph (“This author agrees/disagrees…” or "one can see that...").

Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of the assigned module/week.

JOURNAL TITLESAdapted Physical Activity Quarterly Journal of Emotional and Behavioral DisordersAdolescent Health, Medicine & Therapeutics Journal of Clinical PsychologyAmerican Annals of the Deaf Journal of Developmental and Physical

DisabilitiesAmerican Journal of Occupational Therapy Journal of Learning DisabilitiesAmerican Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Journal of Intellectual Disability ResearchAnnals of General Psychiatry Journal of Learning DisabilitiesAugmentative & Alternative Communication Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual

DisabilitiesBehavioral Disorders Journal of Physical Education, Recreation &

DanceBeyond Behavior Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing

ResearchChild and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Childhood Education Journal of Visual Impairment & BlindnessClearing House Journal of Special Education

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Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews Language and SpeechAssessment for Effective Intervention Language, Speech & Hearing Services in SchoolsEducation and Training in Mental Learning Disability PracticeRetardation/Developmental Disabilities Music Educators JournalEducation and Training in Autisim and Developmental Disabilities

Neuropsychiatry

Education & Treatment of Children PalaestraEducational Psychology in Practice Pediatric Nursing

Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice PediatricsEuropean Journal of Pediatrics Physical & Occupational Therapy in PediatricsExceptional Children Physical TherapyExceptional Parent PLoS Biology

Focus on Exceptional Children Preventing School FailureGifted Child Quarterly Reading TeacherIntervention in School & Clinic Remedial and Special EducationIssues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing Research in Developmental DisabilitiesJournal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

School Psychology Review

Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders School Psychology QuarterlyJournal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing

Support for Learning

Journal of Child & Family Studies Teaching Exceptional Children Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry The New England Journal of MedicineJournal for the Education of Gifted The Psychological Record

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