Three elementary-aged students with multiple severe disabilities acquired basic communication and motor skills within cooperative-learning activities conducted in their general education classrooms and later generalized skills to other situations. Students without disabilities in the cooperative-learning groups achieved targeted academic…

While it has been suggested that patterning activities support early algebra learning, it is widely acknowledged that the shift from perceiving patterns to understanding algebraic functions--and correspondingly, from reporting empirical patterns to providing explanations--is difficult. This paper reports on the collaborations of grade 4 students…

Three elementary-aged students with severe, multiple disabilities acquired basic communication and motor objectives within cooperative learning activities conducted in their regular education classrooms. With gradually fading assistance from the instructor, the nondisabled members of the cooperative learning groups provided cues, prompts, and…