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Reichle, Joe; Byiers, Breanne J.; Reeve, Amanda – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently exhibit generalization errors, but many instructional programs fail to address this deficit. Generalization errors encompass when the learner should extend the use of a newly taught behavior to other contexts but does not (under-generalization), as well as when he or she should not use the…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Preschool Children, Intervention
Liu, Kristin K.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Quenemoen, Rachel F. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2015
Students with significant cognitive disabilities may participate in states' alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS). A growing number of students with significant cognitive disabilities are also English learners (ELs) whose family may use another language in the home. They may only be exposed to English in a school…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Severity (of Disability), English Language Learners, Severe Intellectual Disability
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Pecyna, Paula M.; Sommers, Ronald K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1985
Two norm-referenced tests--Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language (TACL) and Preschool Language Scale (PLS) and one criterion-referenced task, the Basic Two-Choice Object Discrimination Task--were administered to nine severely handicapped preschoolers. Overall, performance and behavioral ratings tended to be best for the Two-Choice Task and…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Tests, Preschool Education, Receptive Language