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Steere, Daniel E. – Innovations: American Association on Mental Retardation, Research to Practice Series, 1997
This booklet discusses the importance to adolescents and adults with mental retardation of learning how to respond correctly to the many variations in home, work, and community activities in order to be successful in integrated settings. The difficulties individuals with mental retardation have in generalizing skills learned in one situation to a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adults, Case Studies
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Direct linkBonfiglio, Christine M.; Daly, Edward J., III; Martens, Brian K.; Lin, Lan-Hsiang Rachel; Corsaut, Stacy – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2004
This study examined the generalized effects of three treatment conditions (performance based, skill based, and a combination of the two) on oral reading fluency by an elementary school student. Results indicated equal effectiveness of all treatments, maintenance, and possible evidence of generalization across passages.
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Reading Fluency, Generalization, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedFullerton, Ann; Coyne, Phyllis – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1999
The effect of a program to develop knowledge and skills for self-determination in adolescents with autism was examined through students' in-class contributions and through pre-post interviews with 23 adolescents and parents. Following the program, students initiated more discussion and used a number of skills and concepts in other settings.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Educational Strategies, Empowerment
Peer reviewedMattie, Harold D. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 2001
Three young adults with moderate to severe mental retardation were taught conversation skills using task analysis and cognitive strategies training procedures. Results show that the participants generalized the conversation skills learned under the cognitive strategies condition and that the cognitive strategies training allowed more normalized…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, Generalization
Werts, Margaret Gessler; And Others – 1991
Three studies of five seventh-grade students (ages 12-14) with emotional disturbances were conducted to determine whether a stimulus class would emerge as a result of one conditional discrimination training using direct instruction (implemented with a constant time delay) augmented with instructive feedback. The students were taught to identify…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Efficiency, Emotional Disturbances, Feedback
Ruediger, Greg – 1998
This paper explores the use of sight word lists in the instruction of students with disabilities. A survey of 25 restaurants in a Midwestern U.S. city was conducted to examine the validity and efficacy of two widely accepted public school reading word lists. It was found that neither of the word lists contained more than 46 percent of the words…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities, Educational Strategies
