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Root, Jenny R.; Cox, Sarah K.; McConomy, M. Addie – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2022
A growing body of literature supports the effectiveness of Modified Schema-Based Instruction (MSBI) to improve mathematical problem-solving for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disability (ID). MSBI is an intervention package that teaches students to identify the problem structure and use a problem-solving heuristic to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intellectual Disability
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Root, Jenny R.; Cox, Sarah K.; Gilley, Deidre; Wade, Taryn – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Effective instructional strategies to improve mathematical problem solving skills are critically important to student success in both school-based and real-world mathematics tasks. This study reports effects of a Virtual-Representational-Abstract Integrated framework on the mathematical problem solving skills of three middle school students with…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Skills
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Van Laarhoven, Toni; Carreon, Adam; Bonneau, Wendy; Lagerhausen, Ashli – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
The purpose of this study was to compare mobile technologies with universally-designed prompting systems to improve the independent vocational performance of four adolescents with ASD and/or ID in school-based employment settings. Specific aims were to (1) compare the effectiveness of universally-designed prompting systems presented on iPads and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Handheld Devices
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Jimenez, Bree A.; Croft, Gemma; Twine, Jennifer; Gorey, Jacqueline – Journal of Special Education, 2021
The "Next Generation Science Standards" framework outlines scientific and engineering practices as a key element of student development. Educators are just beginning to discover effective and meaningful ways to teach science content to students with intellectual disability; however, the literature on teaching science practices is still…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities
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Root, Jenny R.; Browder, Diane M. – Exceptionality, 2019
Problem solving is an important yet neglected mathematical skill for students with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability (ASD/ID). In addition, the terminology and vocabulary used in mathematical tasks may be unfamiliar to students with ASD/ID. The current study evaluated the effects of modified schema-based instruction (SBI) on the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Algebra, Middle School Students, Autism
Root, Jenny Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The current study evaluated the effects of modified schema-based instruction (SBI) on the algebra problem solving skills of three middle school students with autism spectrum disorder and moderate intellectual disability (ASD/ID). Participants learned to solve two types of group word problems: missing-whole and missing-part. The themes of the word…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Wehmeyer, Michael L., Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2013
Roughly 54 million people with disabilities live in the U.S., and there are many more millions of people with disabilities around the world. Not surprisingly, differences among and between people with disabilities are often as notable as differences between people with and without disabilities. While the lack of homogeneity among people with…
Descriptors: Psychology, Disabilities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Special Education