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Ayvazo, Shiri; Brill, Alit; Magal, Karen Samuel – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2023
Problem-solving is a skill of fundamental importance for populations with developmental delays, and especially for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Training students with ASD to solve ill-defined problems is a challenging objective for educational and therapeutic teams. This is due to the myriad of unpredictable situations presented…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Intervention
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Vostanis, Athanasios; Padden, Ciara; McTiernan, Aoife; Langdon, Peter E. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2023
This study compared two goal-setting approaches found in the Precision Teaching literature, namely the minimum celeration line and the beat your personal best during the mathematical practice of three male students diagnosed with autism, aged 8-9. An adapted alternating treatments design with a control condition was embedded in a concurrent…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Males, Mathematics Instruction
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Ledford, Jennifer R.; Wolery, Mark – Exceptional Children, 2015
Many studies have shown that small-group direct instruction is effective and efficient for teaching students with and without disabilities, although relatively few studies have been conducted with heterogeneous groups of preschool participants. In addition, previous studies have primarily assessed whether observational learning occurred for…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Disabilities
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Alter, Peter – Preventing School Failure, 2012
The author presents a strategy for helping students with emotional and behavioral disorders become more proficient at solving math word problems. Math word problems require students to go beyond simple computation in mathematics (e.g., adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing) and use higher level reasoning that includes recognizing relevant…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Problem Solving, Token Economy, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Kiuhara, Sharlene A.; O'Neill, Robert E.; Hawken, Leanne S.; Graham, Steve – Exceptional Children, 2012
Explicitly and systematically teaching strategies for planning and drafting specific types of text has improved the writing of elementary and middle school students with disabilities in previous studies. In this investigation, we examined the effect of teaching a planning and drafting strategy for persuasive writing to high school students with…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Grade 10, Persuasive Discourse
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Alter, Peter J.; Wyrick, Amanda; Brown, E. Todd; Lingo, Amy – Beyond Behavior, 2008
Research indicates that there is a reciprocal relationship between challenging behavior and poor academic performance and that this relationship will have a lifelong negative impact on individuals caught in this detrimental cycle. New interventions continue to be reported in the literature describing more effective ways to implement academic…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Problem Solving, Reading Ability, Token Economy
Petscher, Erin Seligson; Bailey, Jon S. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2006
This study extended the limited research on the utility of tactile prompts and examined the effects of a treatment package on implementation of a token economy by instructional assistants in a classroom for students with disabilities. During baseline, we measured how accurately the assistants implemented a classroom token economy based on the…
Descriptors: Prompting, Special Needs Students, Teaching Methods, Program Implementation