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Stimulus Complexity and Autistic Children's Responsivity: Assessing and Training a Pivotal Behavior.

Burke, John C.; Cerniglia, Laurie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1990
Four autistic children, age 8-15, exhibited fewer correct responses to a stimulus as the number of stimulus components was increased from 1 to 4. Training was effective in producing some generalized increases in responses to complex stimuli. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Autism, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization
McCormick, Sandra; Cooper, John O. – 1988
The study reported in this paper investigated the effects of a frequently recommended study technique on the comprehension of expository text by high-school students having learning disabilities. The instructional procedure studied was "Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review" (SQ3R). Six experiments were conducted over a 3-year period,…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, High Schools, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
Weasenforth, Donald L. – 1994
A study investigated the attitudes of adult university students of English as a Second Language (ESL) toward use of closed captioned television (CCTV) as an instructional tool. Students at the intermediate (n=51) and advanced (n=55) levels of ESL study in classes using CCTV were administered a questionnaire concerning their perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Difficulty Level, Educational Television, Higher Education

Horner, Robert H.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1991
Two studies of three youths (ages 12-14) with severe mental retardation, who used aggression and self-injury to avoid difficult instructional situations, found that simple commands interspersed among more challenging instructional trials were effective at increasing the learners' responsiveness to instructions and decreasing levels of problem…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Difficulty Level
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Mathes, Patricia G. – 1991
This manual was developed as part of a project investigating the effectiveness of class-wide peer mediated reading instruction with middle grade students having mild disabilities and reading difficulties. It explains the procedures for introducing, implementing, and monitoring the project's version of repeated reading, in which pairs of students…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention