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Soto, Xigrid; Seven, Yagmur; McKenna, Meaghan; Madsen, Keri; Peters-Sanders, Lindsey; Kelley, Elizabeth Spencer; Goldstein, Howard – Grantee Submission, 2020
Purpose: This paper describes the iterative development of a home review program designed to augment vocabulary instruction for young children (ages 4 and 5) occurring at school through the use of a home review component. Method: A pilot study followed by two experiments used adapted alternating treatment designs to compare the learning of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Validity, Comparative Analysis
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Chou, Mei-Ju; Cheng, Jui-Ching – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The participation of parents-shared reading with children is a topic that has generated a lot of attention among many researchers in the world. For the use of picture story books, which have caused positive impact on the child's learning process, has also been recommended as the best strategies to develop children's aesthetic ability. The purpose…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Oral Reading, Picture Books, Childrens Literature
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Beschorner, Beth; Hutchison, Amy – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2016
This study explored the impact of a parent education program and the contextual factors that influenced the experiences of families in the program. Seventeen parents completed a 9-week, face-to-face program and 15 parents completed a similar online program. This study was designed as a multiple case study and utilized multimethods for data…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Context Effect, Program Effectiveness, Online Courses
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Ozuna, Jennifer; Mavridis, Alexis; Hott, Brittany L. – Exceptionality Education International, 2015
Social interaction is a core deficit in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Therefore, parents and teachers need effective interventions to support students with ASD. This synthesis provides a quantitative analysis of single-subject studies that examine interventions to support social interactions in children with ASD. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Early Intervention
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Milburn, Trelani F.; Hipfner-Boucher, Kathleen; Weitzman, Elaine; Greenberg, Janice; Pelletier, Janette; Girolametto, Luigi – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2015
Purpose: The current study investigated the effects of coaching as part of an emergent literacy professional development program to increase early childhood educators' use of verbal references to print and phonological awareness during interactions with children. Method: Thirty-one educators and 4 children from each of their classrooms (N = 121)…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education
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Mechling, Linda C.; Bishop, Vanessa A. – Journal of Special Education, 2011
This article reports on two studies investigating the use of computer-based stimuli that may then be used to develop activities and programming for students with profound multiple disabilities (PMD). Both studies used an alternating treatments design and systematic assessment strategy to present stimuli sequentially and to measure student…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Stimuli, Multiple Disabilities, Computers