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Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism
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Steinbrenner, Jessica R.; Hume, Kara; Odom, Samuel L.; Morin, Kristi L.; Nowell, Sallie W.; Tomaszewski, Brianne; Szendrey, Susan; McIntyre, Nancy S.; Yücesoy-Özkan, Serife; Savage, Melissa N. – FPG Child Development Institute, 2020
Autism is currently one of the most prominent and widely discussed human conditions. Its increased prevalence has intensified the demand for effective educational and therapeutic services, and intervention science is providing mounting evidence about practices that positively impact outcomes. The purpose of this report is to describe a set of…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
Learning and Memory in Infants.
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Lipsitt, Lewis P. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1990
Discusses important recent strides in the documentation and understanding of the infant's learning and memory capacity. Focuses on the psychobiology of learning, hedonic mediation of approach-avoidance and learned behavior, infant memory, and critical conditions of infancy and behavioral misadventures. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Infant Behavior, Infants, Learning Processes
Perspectives on Relational Learning in Mental Retardation.
Green, Gina; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1990
This introductory paper covers basic concepts and terminology relevant to the application of research on relational learning to mental retardation. The paper discusses conditional discrimination; conditional stimulus relations and stimulus equivalence; generalized stimulus relations; impact of mediational processes on emergent behavior; relational…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Mediation Theory
The Use of Informational Feedback in Instruction: Implications for Future Research.
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Mory, Edna H. – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1992
Reviews past research that examined which variables might affect learning from feedback and identifies areas that need further research. Topics discussed include feedback as reinforcement; modeling of the feedback cycle; response certitude; feedback elaboration; error analyses; and feedback and higher-level tasks. (65 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Feedback, Learning Processes, Literature Reviews
Visual and Auditory Modalities and Reading Recall: A Review of the Research.
Robinson, Karlen – 1985
Of particular interest to those exploring students' learning modalities is the relationship between the visual and auditory systems and reading recall. Among the findings of studies that have investigated this relationship are the following: (1) reading competency is dependent as much on auditory processing as on visual processing; (2) when visual…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Learning Processes
A Summary of Operant Conditioning Techniques for Use by Supervisors and Teachers.
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Toney, John W.
The same techniques of behavior modification that can be used by teachers to manage student behavior in the classroom can also be used by supervisors to alter the behavior of teachers. In both cases, it is necessary for the supervisors and teachers to focus primarily on the individual's behavior itself, rather than on what causes that behavior. To…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Objectives, Bibliographies