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Emilie Phillips Smith; Catherine P. Bradshaw – Grantee Submission, 2017
Given the rise in dual career and single-parent families, and the need for monitoring and supervision during out-of-school time, afterschool settings are becoming important contexts for the prevention of problem behaviors and the promotion of the positive development of youth. Research indicates that high-quality afterschool programs can have…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Educational Environment, Caring, Child Development
Brum, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The effects of deafblindness are much greater than simply combining the effects of the individual's vision loss with the effects of their hearing loss, because these senses strongly support one another (Silberman, Bruce, & Nelson, 2004). Even though most individuals have some residual vision and hearing, deafblindness limits access to the…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Children, Oral Reading, Teacher Attitudes
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Neitzel, Jennifer – Preventing School Failure, 2010
Positive behavior support has gained attention in recent years as an effective practice for reducing challenging behaviors in children and youth with a variety of disabilities including autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The goal of positive behavioral interventions for students with ASD is to prevent and reduce the occurrence of interfering…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Modification, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Handleman, Jan S.; Harris, Sandra L. – Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 1983
Attempted to assess generalization from a child's school to a novel instructional setting by comparing training in single versus multiple rooms. Found that responses taught in school did not automatically generalize to a day care center but that four of the five boys studied demonstrated relatively high rates of responding. (CMG)
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences
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Kern, Lee; Choutka, Claire Maher; Sokol, Natalie G. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2002
This article reviews research describing assessment-based antecedent interventions implemented in natural settings. Descriptive information is provided along a number of dimensions pertaining to participant characteristics (n=42), assessment utilized, and intervention attributes. Results indicate the most common interventions targeted aggression,…
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification
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Merrell, Kenneth W.; Buchanan, Rohanna; Tran, Oanh K. – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
This article provides an overview of the literature on relational aggression of school-aged children and adolescents, with the specific aim of making this information relevant to school settings and education professionals. Relational aggression is discussed in terms of definitions, terms, and the importance of the school context. The literature…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Children, Literature Reviews