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Coyne, Michael D.; Koriakin, Taylor A. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2017
Evidence based reading instruction and intervention are essential for students with disabilities. The authors recommend that elementary special education teachers emphasize both code-based and meaning-based skills as part of delivering intensive reading interventions, including providing explicit and systematic decoding and vocabulary instruction.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Johnson, Andrew P. – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2017
Reading is creating meaning with print. It makes sense that interventions for struggling readers be similarly meaning-based and take place, to the greatest extent possible, in a general education setting. This article describes a meaning-based Response to Intervention plan that is economical, pragmatic, research-based, and effective. Based on a…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
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Rice, Mary; Greer, Diana – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2014
In this article, the authors state that increases in technological capabilities are enabling more students to complete schoolwork in online learning environments--in addition to and sometimes instead of traditional classrooms. Teachers, parents, and learning coaches who are working with students using these online environments need to know about…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Disabilities, Online Courses, Educational Technology
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Thurlow, Martha L. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2010
The National Accessible Reading Assessment Projects (NARAP) have been conducting research and engaging in other activities to pull together a full view of the issues and potential solutions for developing reading assessments that are fully accessible and produce valid results for students with disabilities. To introduce this topic, the assumptions…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Educational Assessment, Barriers, Disabilities
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Coleman, Mari Beth – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2009
Microsoft PowerPoint software is widely used in business and higher education and is growing in use with school-aged students. A small body of research has demonstrated that it can be effective in enhancing skill instruction for individuals with disabilities. PowerPoint is not a difficult program to learn, but it provides endless possibilities for…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disabilities, Instructional Materials, Visual Aids
Fuchs, Douglas – 2001
This final report, covering the period September 1, 1997 to August 31, 2001, discusses the development, activities, and outcomes of Upgrading Preparatory Work To Augment Reading Development: UPWARD for Students with Disabilities, a multi-faceted program for providing children with disabilities intensive, phonological awareness and other early…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cooperative Learning, Decoding (Reading), Disabilities