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French, Daniel D. – Preventing School Failure, 2019
Despite over 50 years of research and discussion concerning school-based interventions for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), a discernible consensus regarding the core elements of intervention for this student population remains elusive. This discordance is seen by many as an obstacle to the proper design, dissemination, and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Special Education
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Knight, Victoria F.; Sartini, Emily – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
Understanding text can increase access to educational, vocational, and recreational activities for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, limited research has been conducted investigating instructional practices to remediate or compensate for these comprehension challenges. The current comprehensive literature review expanded…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Comprehension, Teaching Methods
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Case, Kim A.; Meier, S. Colton – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2014
Lack of training regarding transgender youth leaves K-12 educators unprepared to become allies to this disenfranchised community and attend to their needs. This article explores the pedagogical strategies of two professional workshop models (GLSEN Houston training and the Gender Infinity practitioner training), which provide skills and resources…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Student Needs, Workshops
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Van Laarhoven, Toni; Zurita, Leslie M.; Johnson, Jesse W.; Grider, Katie M.; Grider, Kristin L. – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2009
This study compared the effectiveness of self-, other-, and subjective-video models on teaching daily living skills to three individuals with developmental disabilities. Results indicated that all conditions were effective in promoting independent correct responding in both instructional and generalization settings and that the effects maintained…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Daily Living Skills, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Wood, Robert E.; Beckmann, Jens F.; Birney, Damian P. – Education & Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider how simulations are increasingly used in training programs for the development of skills such as leadership. However, the requirements of leadership development go beyond the development of task specific procedural knowledge or expertise that simulations have typically been used to develop.…
Descriptors: Leadership, Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation, Skill Development
Rehfeldt, Ruth Anne; Root, Shannon L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2005
This project examined whether a history of reinforced relational responding would result in derived requesting skills in 3 adults with disabilities. Participants were first taught to request preferred items using pictures; they were then taught conditional discriminations between pictures and their dictated names and between dictated names and…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Severe Mental Retardation, Adults, Skill Development
Duker, Pieter C.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1993
This study assessed the differential effectiveness of two types of response delays on correct responding (with communicative gestures) by three individuals with severe mental handicaps to training instructions. Results showed that response delay was effective in increasing the number of correct responses in two of the three individuals. (DB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Instructional Effectiveness, Patterned Responses, Performance Factors
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Finkelhor, David; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1995
Interviews with 2,000 youths (ages 10-16) and their caretakers examined whether instruction at school or home about how to prevent victimization impacted on children's behavior in real victimization attempts. Children exposed to comprehensive school-based or home-based instruction were more likely to use recommended self-protection strategies and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness