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Danielle M. Lang; Emily E. Munn; Claire E. Tielke; Mary G. Nix Caden; Tessa M. Evans; Melissa M. Pangelinan – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
This study evaluated the efficacy of an 8-week (two sessions/week; 60 min/session) adapted soccer intervention on skill performance and retention in 30 adults (18 men and 12 women) ages 17-40 years with autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and intellectual disability. Of these 30 participants, 18 completed a 1-month retention test. The program…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Team Sports, Skill Development, Program Effectiveness
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Wei Li; Tianran Ni; Yi Zhang; Daan Wang; Salvador Parrado – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to examine the effects of vocational training programs for people with disabilities on their income. Design/methodology/approach: It conducted a multinomial regression analysis of 10,469 survey responses from 31 provincial administrative areas in mainland China. Findings: It finds the following antecedents all influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Income, Compensation (Remuneration), Vocational Education
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Brendon Nylen; Seth King – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2024
Individuals with disabilities may exhibit dangerous behavior such as physical aggression and self-injury. Determining the environmental variables maintaining dangerous behavior using a functional behavior assessment can inform treatment in teaching individuals with disabilities functionally equivalent replacement behavior. However, logistic…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Behavior Disorders, Aggression, Self Destructive Behavior
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Ann Finnimore; Deborah Theodoros; Anna F. Rumbach – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Maintenance of speech outcomes following speech-language therapy (SLT) in Parkinson's disease (PD) is an unmet expectation of people with PD (PWPD) and poorly defined in SLT practice. PD Check-In, a model for supported self-managed maintenance of speech following Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) LOUD was investigated. Aims: To…
Descriptors: Self Management, Speech Language Pathology, Speech Therapy, Diseases
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Alaa T. Ibrahim; Afiqah Yusuf; Hannah Pickard; Pamela Dixon; Andy Shih; Stephanie Shire; Andrew Pickles; Mayada Elsabbagh – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Significant barriers to training have been introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic, limiting in-person professional activities resulting in the development of the novel remote training. We developed and evaluated a remote training approach for master trainers of the Caregiver Skills Training Program. Master trainers support community practitioners,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Skill Development, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Michelle Bellon; Sandra Gendera; Sally Robinson; Tim Cahalan; Karen R. Fisher – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2025
Background: A peer-led self-advocacy group, Our Voice SA, is used as a case study to explore how the social engagement of people with intellectual disability contributed to their self-advocacy about things that are important to them. Method: Secondary analyses of data (interviews, observations and program data) were thematically analysed using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Self Advocacy, Peer Relationship