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Aljohani, Wafa A.; Javed, Asim; Ferguson, Julia L.; Cihon, Joseph H.; Milne, Christine M.; Leaf, Justin B. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2022
This study compared simultaneous prompting with an error correction procedure for teaching three children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder expressive labels. Using a parallel treatment design nested within a multiple probe design, the researchers taught each participant how to expressively label pictures of sports teams or cartoon…
Descriptors: Prompting, Error Correction, Students with Disabilities, Autism
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Sng, Cheong Ying; Carter, Mark; Stephenson, Jennifer – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Difficulties with social conversation can be a direct result of the social skills deficit in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The popularity of hand-held devices and the development of commercial apps has expanded the scope of teaching social skills via this modality. This study extends an earlier pilot study in which a…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development
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MacFarland, Mari C.; Fisher, Marisa H. – Exceptionality, 2021
Many researchers and practitioners cite concerns with maintenance and generalization as a serious issue for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), although few studies explicitly target performance of behaviors outside training environments. After an initial intervention failed to produce robust generalization outcomes, the present…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Peer Teaching, Generalization
Boyle, Susannah; McNaughton, David; Light, Janice; Babb, Salena; Chapin, Shelley E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: This study investigated the use of a new software feature, namely, dynamic text with speech output, on the acquisition of single-word reading skills by six children with developmental disabilities during shared e-book reading experiences with six typically developing peers. Method: A single-subject, multiple-probe design across…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Electronic Publishing, Young Children, Developmental Disabilities
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Quinn, Jamie M.; Wagner, Richard K.; Petscher, Yaacov; Roberts, Greg; Menzel, Andrew J.; Schatschneider, Christopher – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
In this large-scale study of students from Title 1 schools (N = 14,773), we used multiple-group latent change score (LCS) modeling to investigate the developmental relations between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension in students with a school-identified learning disability (LD; n = 627) and typically developing students (n = 14,146).…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Scores, Disadvantaged Schools
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Son, Esther; Peterson, N. Andrew; Pottick, Kathleen J.; Zippay, Allison; Parish, Susan L.; Lohrmann, Sharon – Exceptional Children, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the risk and protective factors of peer victimization among young children with disabilities. This study analyzed data from the Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal Study (n =1,130) to test a path model that included child, family, and school characteristics at Year 1 and peer-relation difficulties and…
Descriptors: Risk, At Risk Students, Victims, Path Analysis