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Direct linkBalint-Langel, Kinga; Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Rodgers, Derek B.; Rila, Ashley; Riden, Benjamin S. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2020
We examined the effects of a computer-based strategy to develop self-advocacy skills for 15 middle school students with mild and moderate disabilities. A pre- and posttest experimental design with random assignment to treatment and wait-list control groups was employed to investigate changes in student participation and level of…
Descriptors: Self Advocacy, Skill Development, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents
Schendel, Julie; Binder-Reschly, Marilyn – 1989
This study examined the criterion validity of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) reading measures in three ways: the relationship between CBM performance and teacher perceptions of student academic functioning; relationship between CBM scores and reading performance on a group achievement test; and the ability of CBM to differentiate between…
Descriptors: Concurrent Validity, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Howe, Clifford E.; Keele, Larry X. – Executive Review, 1982
In Iowa the number of handicapped school students is increasing even as total enrollments decline, probably because slow learners are being reclassified as "mildly handicapped" to make them eligible for special education funds and programs. As a result there may soon be more handicapped students than the state can afford. To avoid this,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship
Hess, Roger; And Others – 1987
This volume contains two papers concerning appropriate accommodations that can be made in the areas of grading and granting credits and diplomas for mildly handicapped high school students. The first paper discusses grades for students with disabilities who are mainstreamed in general education classes. It presents seven guiding principles that…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Credits, Evaluation Methods, Grading
Peer reviewedSitlington, Patricia L.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1993
Iowa young adults with learning disabilities (n=737), behavior disorders (n=59), and mental disabilities (n=142), all graduates of resource room programs, were surveyed concerning adult adjustment. Results are reported in terms of marital status, living arrangements, competitive employment, unemployment, postsecondary education, and comparison of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Disorders, Employment
Download full textSitlington, Patricia L.; And Others – 1990
This study investigated the adult adjustment of a statewide random sample of 737 Iowa individuals with learning disabilities, 59 individuals labeled behaviorally disordered, and 142 individuals labeled mentally disabled, all graduates of special education resource teaching programs. Results are reported in terms of: (1) general status information,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Disorders, Employment Level, Graduate Surveys
Logan, Dorothy D. – 1994
This paper proposes recommendations for the training of teachers for the 21st century based on a Newton (Iowa) project to improve and broaden the skills of secondary education teachers for working with special needs students in regular classrooms. The paper calls for a practical and positive approach to defining disabilities, to summing up the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Strategies, Field Experience Programs
