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Huist, Andrea E.; McCarthy, John W.; Boster, Jamie B.; Benigno, Joann P. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2020
Young children who cannot use their natural speech to communicate their daily wants, needs, thoughts, and opinions often rely on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies that frequently use graphic symbols to assemble messages. Early intervention strategies typically focus on visual scene displays (VSDs) to place target messages…
Descriptors: Young Children, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Video Technology, Visual Stimuli
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Bloh, Christopher; Scagliotti, Christopher; Baugh, Sarah; Sheenan, Megan; Silas, Shane; Zulli, Nicole – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2017
Five reinforcing activities were presented to and interrupted for two participants with autism. An errorless teaching procedure was then introduced with two similar activities prompting the participants to request information saying "How?" in order to resume the activity. The dependent variable included both the cumulative number of…
Descriptors: Autism, Teaching Methods, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement
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Alber-Morgan, Sheila R.; Joseph, Laurice M.; Kanotz, Brittany; Rouse, Christina A.; Sawyer, Mary R. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2016
This study examined the effects of implementing word boxes as a supplemental instruction method on the acquisition, maintenance, and generalization of word identification and spelling. Word box intervention consists of using manipulatives to learn phonological decoding skills. The participants were three African-American urban first graders…
Descriptors: Generalization, Language Acquisition, Spelling, Word Recognition
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Clouse, Diane E.; Bauer, Anne M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2016
Self-advocacy, self-management, self-regulation, and self-knowledge are complex terms, often considered forms of self-determination. Whatever term you may use, helping young adults with intellectual disability (ID) make authentic decisions about their own goals and behaviors often results in passive agreement. Even though advancing…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Self Control, Self Determination, Young Adults
Jansma, Paul – 1987
Developed by Project Transition, a 3-year project at Ohio State University, this resource guide deals with physical fitness and personal hygiene training of institutionalized mentally retarded adults, to prepare them for transition into community living environments. Included in the guide are recommended teaching strategies, an assessment system,…
Descriptors: Adults, Generalization, Hygiene, Institutionalized Persons