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Chow, Jason C.; Hampton, Lauren H. – Remedial and Special Education, 2019
Interventions often require multiple decisions to improve outcomes for every student. Whether the decision to implement a practice, tailor an existing protocol, or change approaches, these decisions should be based on individual variables and outcomes via a sequence of treatment. To develop adaptive interventions that have sufficient evidence to…
Descriptors: Special Education, Intervention, Program Development, Program Evaluation
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Alison L. Zagona; Jennifer A. Kurth; Virginia L. Walker; Andrea Ruppar; Sheldon Loman; Sarah Bubash – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2024
Students with extensive support needs are at risk of demonstrating challenging behavior due to inadequate support of their individual needs or class-wide factors such as low quality of instruction. Students with extensive support needs are also among the students who are most likely to experience aversive interventions and be placed in segregated…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Intervention, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification
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Lisa B. Hurwitz; Kirk P. Vanacore – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Experts laud the potential of educational technology (edtech) to promote reading among students with disabilities, but supporting evidence is lacking. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Lexia® Core5® Reading edtech program (Core5) on the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP) Growth Reading™ and easyCBM oral reading fluency performance of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Reading Difficulties
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D'Agostino, Jerome V.; Rodgers, Emily; Konstantopoulos, Spyros – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 requires the use of evidence in adopting programs, particularly for children with reading disabilities. A quasi-experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effects of a literacy intervention called Helping Early Readers Obtain Excellence in Special Education (HEROES), developed for children ages six to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Individualized Education Programs, Intervention, Program Evaluation
Tingley, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study is a program evaluation of a small, rural school district's special education program's compliance with key processes, including the child study, eligibility, and individual education plan (IEP) processes. The goals of the evaluation were to identify potential weaknesses in the special education program implementation, and to provide…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Special Education, Standards, Individualized Education Programs
Quinn, Emily D.; Cook, Alexandria; Wiedrick, Jack; Rowland, Charity – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The goal of this study was to investigate the initial feasibility of the Communication Matrix Professional Development Program (CMPDP), an online program created to help educational professionals teaching students with complex communication needs. Method: A one-group pretest-posttest design was employed with 102 educational professionals…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Individualized Education Programs
Lemons, Christopher J.; Sinclair, Anne C.; Gesel, Samantha; Gruner Gandhi, Allison; Danielson, Louis – National Center on Intensive Intervention, 2017
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in the U.S. Department of Education funded the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII, or the Center) in 2011. NCII's mission during the first five years of funding was to build the capacity of local education agencies (LEAs) to support schools, practitioners, and other stakeholders in the…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Individualized Education Programs, Program Implementation, Special Education
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Bruder, Mary Beth; Dunst, Carl J. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2015
Parents of young children participating in either Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part C early intervention or IDEA Part B-619 preschool special education programs were surveyed to obtain a consumer science perspective of the practitioners who were the children's primary service providers. Parents were asked to make judgments of…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Intervention, Special Education
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Flannery, K. Brigid; Hellemn, Lisa A. – Journal of Special Education, 2015
The Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students 16 years of age or above must address specific transition components. Studies to date have focused on the presence and quality of these transition components, yet the alignment of these components and their role in leading the development of the IEP is just as critical. This qualitative…
Descriptors: Individualized Transition Plans, Alignment (Education), Faculty Development, Knowledge Level
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Adolphson, S. Lillian; Hawken, Leanne S.; Stein Carroll, Mishele – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2010
This article describes an effective model for employing paraprofessionals to provide behavioral support for students in a general education setting. Behavioral health assistants (BHAs) worked under the supervision of school psychologists and counselors and provided behavioral interventions for students with behavioral goals on their individualized…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, School Psychologists, Disabilities, School Personnel
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Goodman, Gay; Bains, Loveen; Moussalli, Melissa – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2011
As a result of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; 1990), public school districts are required to provide appropriate services to preschool students who are at risk or who are experiencing developmental delays. These services are frequently offered in preschool programs for children with disabilities (PPCDs). PPCDs are generally…
Descriptors: Intervention, Individualized Education Programs, Disabilities, At Risk Students
Shiffler, Nancy L. – 1983
Several current approaches to evaluation stress the importance of making explicit the conceptual structure of a program--displaying the hierarchically related transactions which explain the program's movement from a set of "inputs" to a set of desired outcomes. However, individualized programs present particular difficulties in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Programs
Northern Valley Administrators Association, Closter, NJ. – 1978
The report focuses on the objectives of the Preschool Instruction for the Exceptional (PIE) program, an early intervention program designed to help handicapped children function more effectively and help parents understand their child's special needs. It is explained that the primary goal of PIE is to have each child enter the mainstream of…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Coping, Educational Objectives, Handicapped Children
Drezek, Wendy – 1976
The Infant-Parent Training Program is a model program providing day care, therapy-nursery, and home programs for handicapped children from 0 to 3 years old. Upon intake into the program, both parents and children attend four 1-hour diagnostic sessions during which children are assessed in the areas of cognitive functioning, language functioning,…
Descriptors: Day Care, Demonstration Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Education
Larson, Katherine A.; Turner, K. David – 2002
This monograph, one of a series on youth with disabilities and the juvenile justice system, focuses on best practices for reducing delinquency and preventing recidivism. This essay notes that, because of the connection between disability and delinquency, it is likely that a significant portion of court-involved, disabled youth can be expected to…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Disorders, Delinquency, Demonstration Programs
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