Clumps

There are greater than 1000 posts published on Special Education Today. Perhaps you’re not interested in scrolling through all of them to find content on a topic of interest.

Here you can find links to selections of pages (“articles”) that cover a common topic. For example, the clump of pages linked at “behavior analysis” provides a catalog of articles tagged with—you guessed it!—behavior analysis.

AI-generated children looking at card catalog archives.

Here are some topical clumps (meaning “frequently used tags”):

Please understand that the listing of posts here is dependent on my system (such as it was, has been, and is) of tagging posts. When I write a post, I usually attach tags to each one. The tags refer to some aspect of the post (e.g., “This is about reading”; “I’m thinking this would be of interest to administrators”; “There’s an aspect of this post that touches on history of special ed.”). Sadly, I haven’t developed a consistent tag book that guides my application of tags…it’s been pretty much ad hoc. In addition, it’s possible—indeed, factually accurate—that I have assigned multiple tags to one post. Not only that, but I’ve only been assigning tags to posts since sometime in 2023. So, the tagging system is (to minimize its disarray) far from perfect. Still, I hope it helps readers find content that proves useful to them.

If the clumps listed here don’t work for you, there is an alternative way to find posts: Search for them! The Substack system has a built-in search script that permits users to find posts that contain particular words. If, for example, a reader wanted to find all the posts regarding siblings, she could do so by going to the home page on the Web site for SET and selecting (clicking on) the magnifying glass icon in the top bar. She could then enter the term “siblings” and, even without pressing enter or return, the search script will begin listing all the SET posts that have the word “sibling” in them. I find the search mechanism right dang cool, and I used it frequently (…‘cause I am old and can’t remember what I’ve written).

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