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Olfa Tounsi; Anis Ben Chikha; Abdessalem Koubaa; Omar Trabelsi; Liwa Masmoudi; Haitham A. Jahrami; Cain C. T. Clark; Khaled Trabelsi; Mourad Bahloul – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2025
The Good Behaviour Game (GBG) is an interdependent group contingency intervention, previously shown to be effective in managing students' behaviour across several studies. An ABAB withdrawal design was implemented to examine the effects of the GBG on the engagement and disruptive behaviours of 12 students diagnosed principally with a mild…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Mild Intellectual Disability, Physical Education, Self Contained Classrooms
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Jennifer A. Kurth; Elissa Lockman Turner; Alison L. Zagona; Geonhwa Kim; Roxanne Loyless – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2025
Over 90% of students with complex support needs are taught in self-contained (segregated) special education classrooms for most of their school day, despite accumulating evidence these classrooms are not associated with positive student outcomes. Yet placement in these segregated classrooms persists, in part because of assumptions about the degree…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Self Contained Classrooms, Special Education
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Ashley K. Holt; Erik Drasgow; Katie Wolfe – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2024
Teachers of young children with moderate to significant support needs may have insufficient training to implement naturalistic instructional practices such as contingent responding. Naturalistic instructional practices are well researched, but limited studies exist on training teachers to use contingent responses to support children increasing…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Child Behavior, Teaching Methods, Special Education Teachers
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Broughton, Sara – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2023
Spelling instruction is often overlooked by many teachers during reading and language arts. The purpose of this study was to implement a manageable differentiated word study instruction curriculum, drawn from the "Words Their Way (WTW)" curriculum, to determine how it affected students' spelling accuracy and how the participants…
Descriptors: Spelling, Small Group Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Program Effectiveness
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Peyton A. Johnstone; Paul Caldarella; Christian V. Sabey; Howard P. Wills – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2025
Class-wide Function-related Intervention Teams (CW-FIT) is a classroom management intervention in which teachers incorporate positive behavior support (PBS) principles by teaching specific classroom expectations and providing feedback on student behavior as part of an interdependent group contingency. Interventions like CW-FIT may be helpful for…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Self Contained Classrooms, Students with Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances
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Hirsch, Shanna E.; Griffith, Catherine A.; Chow, Jason C.; Walker, Alexis; Walters, Sharon M. – Behavioral Disorders, 2022
The primary aim of professional learning and development (PLD) is to create a meaningful experience to build educator knowledge and practice that can positively affect student behavior. Yet, few studies evaluate the role of PLD with special educators who work with students with emotional and behavioral disorders in self-contained settings. The…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Students, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances
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Walker, Virginia L.; Coogle, Christan Grygas; Lyon, Kristin J.; Turf, Mindi – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to summarize single-case design studies in which paraprofessionals delivered interventions to students with autism spectrum disorder in school settings. We descriptively analyzed participant and intervention characteristics and study quality and estimated intervention effect using Tau-U across student…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention
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Du, Xiaoxue – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2022
COVID-19 has presented new challenges for all teachers, especially teachers of students with special needs. Students have struggled with online learning environments with limited opportunities for social interaction and resources for these disruptive times. The study examined the effect of a professional development (PD) intervention, guided by…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses
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Gersib, Jenna A.; Mason, Sarah – Behavioral Disorders, 2023
Students with emotional-behavioral disorders (EBDs) often learn in alternative classroom settings to provide more intensive instruction that meets their educational needs. Although research has demonstrated promise for several behavior intervention practices in general education settings, the generalizability of these practices to more restricted…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Students with Disabilities, Intervention
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Hample, Kerri; Mahler, Kelly; Amspacher, Adam – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2020
The ability to notice internal sensations such as tense muscles, a rumbling stomach, or heavy eyelids and translate these internal sensations into emotional meaning such as anger, hunger, and fatigue is an important skill called interoceptive awareness. Deficits in interoception have been discovered within many conditions including autism spectrum…
Descriptors: Sensory Experience, Perceptual Impairments, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Long, Holly; Bouck, Emily; Domka, Anna – Exceptionality, 2021
Limited research exists to target algebra instruction for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). In this study, researchers compared the use of concrete -- with scaffolds added by researchers -- and virtual algebra tiles -- with inherent scaffolds -- to support the acquisition, fluency, and generalization of linear…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
Alison L. Zagona; Jennifer A. Kurth; Elissa Lockman Turner; Jesse Pace; Karrie Shogren; Kirsten Lansey; Matt Jameson; Kristin Burnette; Mary Mansouri; Tyler Hicks; Daria Gerasimova – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2022
Students with complex support needs frequently experience restrictive educational placements such as self-contained and separate school classrooms. Given the need to support students with complex support needs to experience positive outcomes and make progress in the general education curriculum, there is a need to investigate the characteristics…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Student Placement, Student Behavior
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Conradi, Lyndsey Aiono; Jameson, J. Matt; Fischer, Aaron J.; Farrell, Michael; Eichelberger, Carrie; Ryan, Joanna; Bowman, Jessica A.; McDonnell, John – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Numerous studies have demonstrated the positive effects of the Good Behavior Game (GBG); however, limited information exists on the impact of the GBG on students with severe disabilities. This study investigated the impact of the GBG on students with severe disabilities and their off-task behaviors. Three students in three self-contained…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, Time on Task, Student Behavior, Self Contained Classrooms
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Zoder-Martell, Kimberly A.; Floress, Margaret T.; Bernas, Ronan S.; Dufrene, Brad A.; Foulks, Samantha L. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2019
The purpose of this study was to synthesize the literature in support of training teachers to use behavior-specific praise, which is a strategy used to reduce students' disruptive and off-task behavior as well as prevent students' problem behaviors from occurring. The results of 28 single-case studies examining the effectiveness of training…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Time on Task
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Van Loan, Christopher L.; Garwood, Justin D.; Smith, Stephen W.; Daunic, Ann P. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2019
Using a pre-post randomized controlled trial, the purpose of this study was to determine whether a social problem-solving curriculum, "Take CHARGE!," based on a cognitive-behavioral approach, could improve students' knowledge of problem-solving skills, as well as self-report of social behaviors for 92 middle school students with…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Problem Solving, Curriculum
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