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Promoting Joint Attention in Children with Visual Impairment: Proposing an Intervention Using Modified Strategies from Joint Attention Symbolic Play Engagement Regulation (JASPER)
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Ross, Mary Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Joint attention is developmental skill that is typically acquired through visual input during the first year of life in typically developing children. Children with visual impairments develop joint attention through alternate senses such as tactile and auditory input (Baron-Cohen, 1995) and show joint attention behaviors unlike those of typically…
Descriptors: Attention, Visual Impairments, Intervention, Play
An Autoethnography on How a Person Developed the Skills and Attributes Necessary for Benefiting the Education of a People Who Have Been Largely Ignored in Our Society: Those Individuals with Multi Disabilities Who Are Unable to Communicate with Verbal (Spoken) Speech
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Schneck, James A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Using an autoethnographic approach, this dissertation explores the path taken by a person who serves a unique population of individuals--people who not only have more than one disability, but in addition, are unable to communicate using verbal (spoken) speech. Starting with a recap of the history of the use and subsequent oppression of American…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Multiple Disabilities, Communication Problems
The Role of Self-Determination on Quality of Life, Student Engagement, and Envisioning a Career
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Ferguson, Terri Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Self-determination has been identified as a major predictive factor for positive postsecondary outcomes for students with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of self-determination in productive student engagement, perceived quality of life, and the ability to envision a career/life goal or future for students with…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Determination, Quality of Life, Learner Engagement
Teaching Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities: The Implementation of Shared Stories
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Lee, Cynthia D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the results of employing shared story reading during literacy instruction for participants with severe and multiple disabilities. This intervention was conducted in an effort to improve independent responses made by participants with severe and multiple disabilities within a small group on a task analysis during shared…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, Multiple Disabilities, Intervention, Responses
Nature, Nurture, Knowledge: The Promise of Experiential Learning for Students with Special Needs
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Peterson, Kara Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Research suggests that many students learn best when teaching practices are outdoors, nature-based, and experiential. Meaningful outdoor experiences increase students' social and academic achievement and contribute to the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills Experiential and nature-based instruction in the outdoors has been…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charter Schools, Experiential Learning, Intervention
The Effectiveness of Combining Tangible Symbols with the Picture Exchange Communication System to Teach Requesting Skills to Children with Multiple Disabilities Including Visual Impairment
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Ali, Emad – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is an augmentative and alternative communication program (Frost & Bondy, 2002). Although PECS has been effectively used to teach functional requesting skills for children with autism, mental retardation, visual impairment, and physical disabilities (e.g., Anderson, Moore, & Bourne, 2007; Chambers &…
Descriptors: Intervention, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Visual Impairments, Physical Disabilities