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Hester, Olivia R.; Swoszowski, Nicole C. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2022
Few transition studies have involved training supervisors on interacting and relaying feedback to individuals with intellectual disability during vocational training. We used a multiple baseline across participants design to examine the efficacy of an adaptive check-in/check-out (CICO) intervention for increasing the rate of performance feedback…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Intervention
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Witmer, Sara E.; Roschmann, Sarina – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Although it is critical for students with autism to be included in large-scale assessment and accountability systems, it is not clear how to best measure their underlying academic skills and knowledge. Additional empirically-supported guidance is necessary to assist school teams that need to make decisions about how to best include students with…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Students with Disabilities
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Riden, Benjamin S.; Taylor, Jonté C.; Scheeler, Mary Catherine; Lee, David L.; McCloskey, Andrea V. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2021
An ABAB reversal design was utilized to examine the effects of an electronic daily behavior report card (eDBRC) on non-compliant, off-task, and disruptive classroom behaviors of a 16-year-old with autism spectrum disorder and a 17-year-old with an intellectual disability. The intervention was implemented by two preservice teachers…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Bouck, Emily C. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
All students are expected to participate in accountability systems and multiple options exist for students with disabilities, including taking the general large-scale assessment with and without accommodations and taking an alternate assessment. Using a secondary analysis of the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), the researcher…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Special Education, Longitudinal Studies, Disabilities
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2016
This report has been provided to the Legislature on an annual basis since the year 2000. This report is issued in the context of a change in focus for the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), the federal agency which oversees the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) implementation in each state. OSEP's new accountability…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Alignment (Education), Federal Government
US Government Accountability Office, 2016
Research has shown that early intervention can greatly improve the development of a child with autism. Children with disabilities--including children with autism--can receive intervention services through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Low income children may also receive intervention services through Medicaid or the State…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Federal Programs, Federal Legislation
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Zirkel, Perry A. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2008
This article presents questions regarding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA) and its 2006 regulations. The author's answers to these questions are presented.
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education