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Lifshitz, Hefziba; Meirovich, Shlomit Shnitzer; Vakil, Eli – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
This follow-up study aimed to examine (a) the impact of 4.5 years participation in postsecondary education (PSE) on students with intellectual disability (ID) compared to adults with ID who did not participate in PSE, (b) whether a different impact on crystallized and fluid intelligence after 4.5 years would be found among PSE students with higher…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Students with Disabilities, Adult Students, Outcomes of Education
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Harrison, Allyson G.; Holmes, Alana; Pollock, Bethany – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2021
Memory aids are now frequently provided to elementary and secondary school students to increase their success in achieving provincial curriculum standards. While such an accommodation may meet the immediate goal of improved academic performance it may not be warranted based on an actual long-term memory retrieval impairment and may therefore be…
Descriptors: Memory, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Postsecondary Education, Special Education
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Sumner, Emma; Connelly, Vincent – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
Previous work suggests that written text produced by university students with dyslexia is scored lower than that produced by their peers. The present study used a digital writing tablet to examine the writing process and the quality of text written by university students with dyslexia. Revision behavior during and after writing was also…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Revision (Written Composition), Students with Disabilities, Dyslexia
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Christiansen, Jens; White, Susan W.; McPartland, James; Volkmar, Fred; Parlar, Sarah; Pedersen, Lennart – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
The education of children with disabilities in the regular educational environment has long been an expectation of legislation in many countries. Yet some children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are educated outside regular classes. Despite the obvious importance that educational placement holds for any child, there is limited research on how…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Student Characteristics