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Aspiranti, Kathleen B.; Hilton-Prillhart, Angela; Dula, Mark E.; Ebner, Sara – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2023
Automaticity, defined as accurate and effortless word recognition, impacts a student's ability to read fluently. Although there is evidence that teaching students to read sight words in isolation can increase automaticity, few studies have examined the effects of interventions designed to teach students to read sight phrases. In this study, a…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
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Pennington, Robert C.; Wakeman, Shawnee; Saunders, Alicia F.; Cerrato, Brett M. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
In the current study, we taught three middle school peers without disabilities to implement a commercially available literacy program with students with extensive support needs (ESN). Our teaching package included behavior skills training, ongoing feedback, and visual supports. We employed a multiple probe across participants design to evaluate…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities, Literacy Education
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Wright, Heidi Brittain Matthews; Flores, Margaret M.; Dunn, Caroline; Shippen, Margaret M.; Darch, Craig – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
This study explored the effects of instruction in letter sound correspondence (LSC) with four preschool students with disabilities. The study included participants with developmental delay, autism spectrum disorder, and communication disorders. Researchers incorporated nonverbal methods of response to accommodate study participants with…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Students with Disabilities
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Katz, Sarah; More, Cori; Baker, Joshua N. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The ability to communicate is the most fundamental educational outcome leading to academic success (Kearns et al., 2015). This is no different for students with disabilities. Students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), however, demonstrate difficulty with spontaneous communication and use of functional language throughout a variety of settings…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Prompting, Interpersonal Communication, Autism
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Allor, Jill H.; Yovanoff, Paul; Otaiba, Stephanie Al; Ortiz, Miriam B.; Conner, Carlin – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
The importance of helping all children make meaningful progress in reading development is supported by legislative mandates and court rulings. The purpose of this research was to describe findings from a series of single-case design studies completed over three years to test the effects of a specific comprehensive literacy intervention, Friends on…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
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Roberts, Carly A.; Kim, Soyeon; Tandy, Jacob; Meyer, Nancy – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Students with intellectual disability (ID) often have limited access to general education science content. The current study evaluated the effects of a content area literacy intervention designed to improve the comprehension of high school students with moderate intellectual disability on adapted expository science text. The multicomponent…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Aloud to Others