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Alice N. Williams – Journal of Special Education, 2025
For students with moderate and severe intellectual disability (ID), reading instruction has focused on teaching sight words. However, research supports a shift in focusing instruction on reading skills such as phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency. The purpose of this systematic literature review was to focus on the research completed with…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Moderate Intellectual Disability
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Clausen, Amy M.; Tapp, Melissa C.; Pennington, Robert C.; Spooner, Fred; Teasdell, Annette – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2021
Modified schema-based instruction (MSBI) is a strategy to teach mathematical word problem solving to students with moderate and severe disabilities (MSD). In this comprehensive review, we explore the current state of research on MSBI to determine whether MSBI is an evidence-based practice (EBP) for students with MSD. We reviewed 12 studies, of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Schemata (Cognition), Mathematics Instruction, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Bouck, Emily C.; Bone, Erin – Advances in Special Education, 2018
This chapter reviews the intervention research literature -- particularly interventions deemed evidence-based -- for students with intellectual disability across academic and life-skills instruction. Although the focus of this chapter is the spectrum of students covered under the term "intellectual disability," the majority of research…
Descriptors: Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Evidence Based Practice
Bowman, Jessica A.; McDonnell, John; Ryan, Joanna H.; Fudge-Coleman, Olivia – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2019
Educational programs for students with moderate and severe disabilities (MSD) have undergone drastic changes since the mandate for access to the general curriculum was provided by Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. Since then, educators have struggled to find methods to use to promote optimal learning, including in the area of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Severity (of Disability), Moderate Intellectual Disability, Severe Intellectual Disability
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Cannella-Malone, Helen I.; Dueker, Scott A.; Barczak, Mary A.; Brock, Matthew E. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Students with significant intellectual and developmental disabilities deserve access to instruction on academic skills in addition to functional skills. Many teachers, however, report challenges with identifying appropriate evidence-based practices to teach academics to these students. The purpose of this systematic review was to summarize and…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Severe Intellectual Disability, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Liu, Kristin K.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Quenemoen, Rachel F. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2015
Students with significant cognitive disabilities may participate in states' alternate assessments based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS). A growing number of students with significant cognitive disabilities are also English learners (ELs) whose family may use another language in the home. They may only be exposed to English in a school…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Severity (of Disability), English Language Learners, Severe Intellectual Disability