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Jill Grattan; MaryAnn Demchak – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2024
To date, no evidence-based practices are identified for working with students who are deafblind (DB). No evidence-based practices have been identified for teaching basic self-help skills such as dressing. The present study examined the efficacy of an intervention package including the system of least prompts (SLP; i.e., SLP and least-to-most…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Students with Disabilities, Self Help Programs, Daily Living Skills
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Oh-Young, Conrad – Young Exceptional Children, 2022
Visual supports are content provided in a visual manner that help people to navigate and/or make sense of the world around them. The use of visual supports has been identified as an evidence-based practice (EBP), with evidence of its effectiveness when used to address challenging behavior, school readiness outcomes, joint attention outcomes, or…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Handheld Devices, Cues, Evidence Based Practice
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Mazanderani, Fadhila; Noorani, Tehseen; Dudhwala, Farzana; Kamwendo, Zara Thokozani – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2020
This paper explores how personal experience acquires the status of knowledge and/or evidence in contemporary healthcare contexts that emphasise being both patient-centred and evidence-based. Drawing on a comparative analysis of three case studies -- self-help and mutual aid groups; online patient activism; and patient feedback in healthcare…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Employment Experience, Health Services, Knowledge Level
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Noorani, Tehseen; Karlsson, Magnus; Borkman, Thomasina – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2018
Background: This article charts the relationships between the model of evidence-based practice (EBP), healthcare markets where providers are increasingly competing through the adoption of EBP-certified interventions, and the cultivation of experiential knowledge within self-help and mutual aid groups (MAGs). After 35 years of neoliberal reform,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Knowledge Level, Social Support Groups, Self Help Programs
Gerhardt, Peter F., Ed.; Crimmins, Daniel, Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2013
Promoting better social skills and behavior is a top priority for anyone who works with learners with autism--but which practices really improve outcomes? Find out in this cutting-edge volume, a reader-friendly synthesis of the latest findings from more than 20 of today's top researchers in the field. Coordinated by the highly respected…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Adjustment (to Environment), Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders