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Danniels, Erica; Pyle, Angela – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2023
As school authorities strive toward inclusive models of education for children with neurodevelopmental delay and disability (NDD), many kindergarten curricula have mandated pedagogy centered on learning through play. Children with NDD tend to experience greater social isolation and lower rates of social play engagement compared to typically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Play, Teaching Methods
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Ilias Vasileiadis; Ioanna Dimitriadou; Spyros Koutras; Georgios Vleioras – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2024
Students with General Learning Difficulties present low levels of social competence. In order to increase them, students participate in school psychological support programmes. There are no research data available in Greece regarding social competence in students with General Learning Difficulties in the first grades of elementary school. The…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Grade 1
Robin L. Hopkins – Maryland State Department of Education, 2024
In Maryland, one way children's well-being is measured is by looking at the data from the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA). While the data can illustrate how children perform on various indicators across language and literacy, mathematics, social foundations, and physical well-being and motor development, it is really a reflection of the…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Young Children, Literacy
Eva Marie McCleary – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The increase in diagnoses of autism for elementary aged students paired with schools increasingly moving towards inclusive classroom models creates a challenge for general education teachers. This quantitative quasi-experimental study was designed to investigate the efficacy of an after school, explicit social skills intervention, and the impact…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Robin L. Hopkins – Maryland State Department of Education, 2023
In Maryland, one way children's well-being is measured is by looking at the data from the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA). While the data can illustrate how children perform on various indicators across language and literacy, mathematics, social foundations, and physical well-being and motor development, it is really a reflection of the…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Young Children, Literacy
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Loukeris, Stefanos; Soulis, Spyridon-Georgios – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Student retention in kindergarten is a common practice, so that students will obtain the necessary school preparation for elementary school. However, this practice is also used for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), without sufficient research data on the impacts of retention on this group of students. The current study examines the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Kindergarten, Grade Repetition
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Zweers, Inge; van de Schoot, Rens A. G. J.; Tick, Nouchka T.; Depaoli, Sarah; Clifton, James P.; de Castro, Bram Orobio; Bijstra, Jan O. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2021
The present study investigated (1) how social relationships with teachers and peers and self-esteem of students with social-emotional and behavioral difficulties (SEBD) in inclusive regular education (regular schools) and students with SEBD in exclusive special education (special schools) develop over time in comparison with each other and in…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Social Emotional Learning, Students with Disabilities
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Fachantidis, Nikolaos; Syriopoulou-Delli, Christine K.; Vezyrtzis, Ioannis; Zygopoulou, Maria – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Objective: The current educational intervention investigates how the use of the educational robot as an assistive tool can aid young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder helping them strengthen relationships and improving their interaction with typically developing children. Method: For this purpose an interdisciplinary road safety program was…
Descriptors: Robotics, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Class Activities
Hopkins, Robin L. – Maryland State Department of Education, 2022
The majority of students in Maryland spent at least a portion of the last school year learning virtually, from public prekindergarten through college. Throughout the year, jurisdictions made individual decisions to allow for a gradual return to in-person school in a variety of ways. Lessons learned from the earliest stages of the pandemic made it…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Child Development, Access to Education, Early Intervention
Yin, Ming; Heard, Holly E.; Szabo, Julia; Ankoor, Nehemiah – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2021
In the fall of 2019, 3,355 10-year-old students in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) students participated in the Study on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES), part of an international effort led by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with Houston serving as the only U.S. site. This report provides a…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Social Development, Emotional Development, Skill Development
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Lai, Yuk Ching; Gill, Judith – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
Initially developed from policies implemented under British rule, the integrated programme for children with disabilities has not been widely publicised in the context of early childhood education in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Local communities have responded differently to the integrated programme implemented in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
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Gottfried, Michael A.; Kirksey, J. Jacob; Wright, Adam – Remedial and Special Education, 2019
Although numerous studies have examined if students of color benefit from having a teacher of the same race/ethnicity, all attention has been paid to students without disabilities. We examine whether the same benefits hold for students with disabilities (SWDs). Using a nationally representative data set of kindergartners, we explored whether SWDs…
Descriptors: Race, Teacher Student Relationship, Kindergarten, Students with Disabilities
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Winstead, Olivia; Lane, Justin D.; Spriggs, Amy D.; Allday, R. Allan – Journal of Early Intervention, 2019
Small group instruction in classrooms provides children opportunities to collaborate on academic tasks, as well as opportunities for social interactions. Although such arrangements are common for children with typical development, children with moderate to severe disabilities (MSD) may receive few or no opportunities to participate meaningfully in…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Peer Relationship, Moderate Intellectual Disability
Maryland State Department of Education, 2020
In Maryland, one way children's wellbeing is measured is by looking at the data from the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA). While the data can illustrate how children perform on various indicators across literacy, math, social-emotional development and physical well-being, it's really a reflection of the "readiness" of Maryland…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Child Development, Access to Education, Early Intervention
McCormick, Meghan P.; Neuhaus, Robin; Horn, E. Parham; O'Connor, Erin E.; White, Hope S.; Harding, Samantha; Cappella, Elise; McClowry, Sandee – Grantee Submission, 2019
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) programs are school-based preventive interventions that aim to improve children's social-emotional skills and behavioral development. Although meta-analytic research has shown that SEL programs can improve academic and behavioral outcomes in the short term, few studies have examined program effects on receipt of…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence, Kindergarten
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