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Angie L. Miller; Deanna A. Ibrahim – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2025
Arts-intensive high schools offer a unique learning environment for artistically gifted students, but relatively little is known about the long-term impacts of attending these schools. Using data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), this mixed-methods study explores the educational experiences and career outcomes of over 2,900…
Descriptors: High Schools, Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Art Education
Hiba Kachouri; Ghada Jouira; Rabeb Laatar; Rihab Borji; Haithem Rebai; Sonia Sahli – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
The study explored the effects of two combined training (Strength-Proprioceptive versus Cognitive-Balance) programs on postural balance during single-task and dual-task conditions in children with intellectual disability. The postural balance and the second cognitive-task performances were evaluated before and after 8-week of training in two…
Descriptors: Muscular Strength, Training, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
Pamela S. Wolfe; Muhammed A. Karal; Jonte' C. Taylor – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2024
Sexuality education is an essential part of a comprehensive curriculum for individuals with disabilities as emerging adults. Lack of socio-sexuality education for individuals with disabilities has been linked to limited resources and training for teachers/personnel, and restrictive attitudes. The present study examined the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Sexuality
Altaf, Enas MohammedNour; Bennett, Kyle D. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2023
Researchers have investigated several variations of video prompting (VP), including a recent version called continuous video prompting (CVP). When using CVP, a practitioner plays videos of each task step identically to what would be seen when using VP. With CVP, however, the video for a given task step repeats until the student completes the step…
Descriptors: Prompting, Video Technology, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities
Mohammadi, Mohadeseh; Borujeni, Mehdi Rafei; Movahedi, Ahmadreza; Salehi, Hamid – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of easy goals versus difficult goals on acquisition and retention of basketball free throws in children with intellectual disability. Twenty-one children with intellectual disability were randomly assigned to an easy goals or difficult goals group. The participants were required to…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Difficulty Level, Skill Development, Athletics
Alhuzimi, Talal – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Video modelling (VM) has been found to be an effective intervention in supporting the improvement of social capabilities for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study examined the effectiveness using video modelling in developing two specific social skills of four students with ASD in a special boys' school namely, playing with…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Video Technology, Modeling (Psychology), Interpersonal Competence
Noghondar, Narges Vali; Sohrabi, Mehdi; Taheri, Hamid Reza; Kobravi, Hamid Reza; Khodashenas, Ezzat – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Objective: People with Down syndrome (DS) have higher variability in their motor skills compared to other counterparts without intellectual disability. Given that the effect of physical training on the variability and accuracy is unclear, the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of nine sessions of overhand throwing training on the…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Psychomotor Skills, Training, Program Effectiveness
Barman, Munmi; Jena, Ananta Kumar – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2023
Interactive video-based instruction (IVBI) session was organized in day-care rehabilitation settings to provide training in acquiring new skills related to social skills development for targeted moderate intellectual disability (MID) population. The main objective is to inter-relate the effect of individual and collaborative interactive…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Interpersonal Competence, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
Oladimeji, Oyeyemi Omolayo – Online Submission, 2022
Pupils with Intellectual Disability (PwID) experience difficulties with acquisition of social skills. They find it difficult to initiate and maintain positive social relationships. Previous studies focused on enhancing academic skills of PwID with little emphasis on fostering functional skills. Therefore, this study determined the effects of…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship
Alzrayer, Nouf M.; Aldabas, Rashed; Alhossein, Abdulkarim; Alharthi, Hanan – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2021
Naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions (NDBI) have been shown to facilitate the development of spontaneous language in individuals with speech and language impairment. Several meta-analyses have reported a small number of studies that utilized naturalistic teaching approaches combined with augmentative and alternative communication…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Behavior Modification, Intervention
Demir, Serkan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
When the relevant literature is examined, it is possible to find many studies on leadership skills along with leadership characteristics, but there are limited studies on leadership in children (Mullarkey, Recchia, Lee, Shin, & Lee, 2005; Duran & Zembat, 2020). The training of intelligent and gifted leaders is essential for national and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Leadership, Leadership Training, Program Effectiveness
Ivanova, Olga; Shalashova, Marina; Tareva, Elena; Gavrilyuk, Oksana – Education Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the practical aspects of training for parents and teachers of chronically ill children who are under long-term treatment in medical institutions. The paper identifies knowledge, attitudes and practices associated with both formal and non-formal education programs for teachers and parents of children…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Hospitalized Children, Special Schools, Informal Education
López-de-la-Fuente, M. José; García-Foncillas, Rafael; Gómez-Trullén, Eva M. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2022
Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) serve an essential role to support children with disabilities; thus, they need efficient training. The one-on-one coaching following a workshop was compared with a control group that only received a workshop. A quasi-experimental study was conducted in two of the five public special education schools in Zaragoza…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Coaching (Performance), Workshops, Program Effectiveness
Yektaoglu, Tara – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the training program which was developed in order to enable students with mental disabilities to acquire self-protection skills against sexual abuse, and to maintain their safety and abilities in other environments. In this qualitative study, the participants were selected via criteria…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Sexual Abuse, Training
Pitts, Laura; Gent, Stacey; Hoerger, Marguerite L. – British Journal of Special Education, 2019
Interventions based on applied behaviour analysis (ABA) have been shown to improve outcomes for young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but there is very little research into outcomes for older pupils. This study evaluated the effectiveness of an ABA intervention for pupils with ASD and additional learning difficulties in a UK special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Applied Behavior Analysis, Autism