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Mims, Pamela J.; Browder, Diane M.; Baker, Joshua N.; Lee, Angel; Spooner, Fred – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2009
Shared stories have been shown to help increase emerging literacy skills in students with significant intellectual disabilities. One important literacy skill is the development of listening comprehension. In this study, least-to-most prompt system was used to promote listening comprehension during shared stories for two students with significant…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Visual Impairments, Mental Retardation, Generalization
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Mancil, G. Richmond – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2009
Several researchers have employed milieu therapy to address the communication needs of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Thus, the purpose of this review is to examine milieu therapy, particularly, the environments and individuals involved in the training and the effectiveness of milieu therapy with children who have a diagnosis of ASD…
Descriptors: Autism, Milieu Therapy, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Therapy
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Tekin-Iftar, Elif – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2008
The present study was designed to determine whether parents (three mothers and one grandmother) could implement CBI with SP reliably for teaching community skills to their children and the effects of parent-delivered intervention on teaching the community skills. Maintenance and generalization effects of the intervention were also analyzed in the…
Descriptors: Community Based Instruction (Disabilities), Parents as Teachers, Children, Developmental Disabilities
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Angell, Maureen E.; Bailey, Rita L.; Larson, Laura – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2008
This study involved the extension and adaptation of systematic instructional procedures suggested by Light and Binger (1998) to increase the social-pragmatic language skills of five high school students with moderate cognitive disabilities. Within a single-subject multiple probe research design, we also assessed intervention effects on two skills…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Intervention, Mental Retardation, Language Skills
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Jolivette, Kristine; Lingo, Amy S.; Houchins, David E.; Barton-Arwood, Sally M.; Shippen, Margaret E. – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2006
The effects of a fluency building math program on addition and subtraction computational skills were evaluated using a multiple probe across subjects design. Two students with developmental disabilities and one student with attentional difficulties participated in a supplemental intervention using the Great Leaps Math program. Analyses indicated…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Developmental Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills