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Direct linkSuzanne Woods-Groves; Kelly B. Schweck; Jessica Milton; Elizabeth Danson; Tara Tucker; Betty S. Patten; Kinga Balint-Langel; Taehoon Choi – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Expository writing is a highly valued employability skill (Finley, 2023) and a necessary competency for college students to master due to its often-used format within college assignments (Schillings et al., 2023). As students in postsecondary education programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities attend traditional…
Descriptors: College Students, Students with Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities, Expository Writing
Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Rodgers, Derek B.; Balint-Langel, Kinga; Hinzman-Ferris, Michelle L. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
We examined the efficacy of a combined electronic essay writing and editing mnemonic driven strategy with 24 college students in a two-year postsecondary program for students with developmental disabilities. We used a pre-posttest experimental design with random assignment to treatment/control groups. During 26 sessions each consisting of 50 min.,…
Descriptors: College Students, Students with Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities, Essay Tests
Download full textWoods-Groves, Suzanne; Alqahtani, Saeed S.; Balint-Langel, Kinga; Kern, Amanda – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2018
This study examined the efficacy of an electronic essay-writing strategy to improve the expository writing skills of 20 young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in a program at an institute of higher education in the midwest. A pretest and posttest experimental design with random assignment to treatment or control…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Writing Strategies, Developmental Disabilities, Pretests Posttests
Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Hughes, Charles A.; Rodgers, Derek B.; Balint-Langel, Kinga; Alqahtani, Saeed S.; Neil, Katelyn M.; Hinzman, Michelle – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
The authors in this study used a pre-posttest experimental design with random assignment to treatment or control group to assess the use of an electronic editing cognitive strategy. The participants were 16 college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in a 2-year postsecondary program at a Midwestern institute of…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Instructional Effectiveness
Asaro-Saddler, Kristie – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
This replication study examined the effects of a planning and self-regulation strategy on the story writing abilities of young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Three second graders with ASD were taught a strategy for planning and writing a story using the self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) approach. After learning the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Therrien, William J.; Hua, Youjia; Hendrickson, Jo M.; Shaw, Julia W.; Hughes, Charles A. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
This study examined the effectiveness of the ANSWER Strategy (Hughes, Schumaker, & Deshler, 2005) in improving the essay composition skills of post-secondary students with developmental disabilities. The six-step strategy incorporated analyzing essay prompts, creating an outline, generating an essay response, and reviewing the answer. The…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Essays, College Students, Writing Improvement
Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Hua, Youjia; Therrien, William J.; Kaldenberg, Erica R.; Lucas, Kristin G.; Hendrickson, Jo M.; McAninch, Melissa J. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
This investigation explored the use of strategic instruction to improve the essay-test taking skills of young adults who were enrolled in a campus-based, post-secondary education program for individuals with developmental disabilities. A random assignment to treatment or control groups and a pre- and posttest design was used. The participants…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Writing Instruction, Essays, Test Wiseness
Spencer, Vicky G.; Evmenova, Anya S.; Boon, Richard T.; Hayes-Harris, Laura – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of the published research-based strategies used in content area instruction for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Twenty-eight (N = 28) studies published from 2000-2012 that met the criteria for inclusion were located, reviewed, and synthesized. Findings revealed the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Teaching Methods
