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Panganiban, Jonathan; Kasari, Connie – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2023
Autistic children are less likely to be jointly engaged with a play partner than nonautistic children, negatively impacting social communication development. Promoting joint engagement during play can be an important target for educators of autistic students, but educator perceptions of autistic students may affect their interactions with…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Student Behavior
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Sasha M. Zeedyk; Shana R. Cohen; Jan Blacher; Abbey Eisenhower – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Limited research has explored mothers' perceptions of teachers' pedagogical practices that may or may not support the learning and development of their child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Mothers of children with ASD were asked to describe their perspective regarding three questions: (1) How do teachers structure the classroom environment…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Mothers, Mother Attitudes, Classroom Environment
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Pennington, Robert C.; Foreman, Lindsay Hugg; Gurney, Beth Newberry – Remedial and Special Education, 2018
In the current study, we investigated the effects of an instructional package (i.e., response prompting, sentence frames) on sentence writing for three middle school participants (ages 12-13) with moderate to severe disabilities. We employed a multiple probe across behaviors design to evaluate the efficacy of the intervention package and also used…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Intervention, Sentences, Writing Skills
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Kliemann, Karin R.; Boesch, Miriam C.; Lindo, Endia J. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2021
Students with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are being educated in general education content classrooms that use lessons directed to whole groups of students which limit use of visually presented material. For some students with ASD, having limited visual support hinders their abilities to process and comprehend material. Research shows…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Instructional Materials, Visual Aids
Sasha M. Zeedyk; Shana R. Cohen; Jan Blacher; Abbey Eisenhower – Grantee Submission, 2021
Limited research has explored mothers' perceptions of teachers' pedagogical practices that may or may not support the learning and development of their child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Mothers of children with ASD were asked to describe their perspective regarding three questions: (1) How do teachers structure the classroom environment…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mothers, Mother Attitudes
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Bhat, Anjana N.; Srinivasan, Sudha M.; Woxholdt, Colleen; Shield, Aaron – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Children with autism spectrum disorder present with a variety of social communication deficits such as atypicalities in social gaze and verbal and non-verbal communication delays as well as perceptuo-motor deficits like motor incoordination and dyspraxia. In this study, we had the unique opportunity to study praxis performance in deaf children…
Descriptors: Deafness, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Severity (of Disability)
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Mucchetti, Charlotte A – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
Almost nothing is known about the capacity of minimally verbal students with autism to develop literacy skills. Shared reading is a regular practice in early education settings and is widely thought to encourage language and literacy development. There is some evidence that children with severe disabilities can be engaged in adapted shared reading…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Autism, Severe Disabilities, Story Reading