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 12 doublespaced 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/weeks 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 TITLES
Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly
Adolescent Health, Medicine & Therapeutics
American Annals of the Deaf

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental

Health

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

Journal of Clinical Psychology
Journal of Developmental and Physical
Disabilities
Journal of Learning Disabilities
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
Journal of Learning Disabilities
Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual
Disabilities
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation &
Dance
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research
Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child &
Adolescent Psychiatry

Childhood Education
Clearing House

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness

Journal of Special Education

American Journal of Occupational Therapy

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Annals of General Psychiatry
Augmentative & Alternative Communication
Behavioral Disorders
Beyond Behavior

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EDUC 521

Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Assessment for Effective Intervention
Education and Training in Mental
Retardation/Developmental Disabilities
Education and Training in Autisim and
Developmental Disabilities
Education & Treatment of Children
Educational Psychology in Practice

Language and Speech

Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools
Learning Disability Practice
Music Educators Journal
Neuropsychiatry

Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice

European Journal of Pediatrics
Exceptional Children
Exceptional Parent

Pediatrics
Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics
Physical Therapy
PLoS Biology

Focus on Exceptional Children

Gifted Child Quarterly
Intervention in School & Clinic
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual
Disabilities
Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders
Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric
Nursing
Journal of Child & Family Studies
Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry
Journal for the Education of Gifted

Preventing School Failure

Reading Teacher
Remedial and Special Education
Research in Developmental Disabilities
School Psychology Review

Palaestra
Pediatric Nursing

School Psychology Quarterly

Support for Learning
Teaching Exceptional Children
The New England Journal of Medicine
The Psychological Record

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