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Direct linkYi-Fan Li; Chih-Tsen Liu; Yingying Zhao – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2024
Self-determination has been a primary focus of efforts to enhance quality of life for individuals with disabilities. Learning self-determination enables individuals to assume greater responsibility and control in their lives. The primary causal agency perspective on self-determination highlights the importance of learning self-determination for…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Learning Experience, Adult Learning, Severe Disabilities
Rachel L. Metras; Gregory P. Hanley; Matthew J. Carbone – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
An interview-informed synthesized contingency analysis (IISCA; Hanley et al. in J Appl Behav Anal 47:16-36, 2014) and related skill-based treatment process can result in socially valid outcomes for clients exhibiting severe challenging behavior when implemented by professionals and then transferred to parents (e.g., Santiago et al. in J Autism Dev…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Children
Download full textThurlow, Martha L.; Test, David W.; Rogers, Christopher M.; Klare, Matthew; Lazarus, Sheryl S. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2019
The purpose of this report is to summarize the status of state-defined alternate diplomas in the 50 U.S. states three years after the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESSA) indicated that states could develop these diplomas and use them in accountability calculations. To count this diploma in a graduation measure for accountability, several…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Students with Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation
Sanders, Eric J.; Page, Thomas A.; Lesher, Deborah – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine confidence levels and identify predictors of increased confidence of school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) relative to different aspects of the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) assessment process. Method: Surveys were completed by 272 school-based SLPs. Questions were…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, School Personnel, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Thurlow, Martha L.; Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Albus, Deb A.; Larson, Erik D.; Liu, Kristin K. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2019
States continue to navigate the shift that came with the 1% threshold on participation in alternate assessments based on alternate academic achievement standards (AA-AAAS). This shift, following the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015, limited participation in the…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards
Barbosa, Vanessa Maziero – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2013
Medical and technological advances in neonatology have prompted the initiation and expansion of developmentally supportive services for newborns and have incorporated rehabilitation professionals into the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) multidisciplinary team. Availability of therapists specialized in the care of neonates, the roles of…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Neonates, Teamwork, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Goldstein, Lou Ann – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2013
Family involvement is essential to the developmental outcome of infants born into Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). In this article, evidence has been presented on the parent's perspective of having an infant in the NICU and the context of family. Key points to an educational assessment are also reviewed. Throughout, the parent's concerns and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Teaching Skills, Educational Needs
Watts, Michael; Ridley, Barbara – British Educational Research Journal, 2012
Centring on a small-scale capability-based case study of music provision for adults with profound dis/abilities, this paper considers the significance of music and music education in people's lives. It offers a philosophical defence of music's importance in enjoying a truly human life and then, drawing on an overview of the work of dis/abled…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Living Standards, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Hunter-Johnson, Yvonne, Ed.; Cherrstrom, Catherine, Ed.; McGinty, Jacqueline, Ed.; Rhodes, Christy, Ed. – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) was founded in 1982 as the result of a merger between the National Association for Public and Continuing Adult Education (NAPCAE) and the Adult Education Association (AEA). This prestigious association is dedicated to the belief that lifelong learning contributes to human…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Adult Education, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning
Bouck, Emily C.; Flanagan, Sara M. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2010
Research on the positive impact of using concrete manipulatives in mathematics for students with high-incidence disabilities is clear. Maccini and Gagnon (2000) considered manipulatives to be a best practice in terms of educating students with high-incidence disabilities in mathematics. It would follow, then, that research on virtual manipulatives…
Descriptors: Incidence, Educational Technology, Special Education Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Stead, Robyn – Kairaranga, 2010
This study investigates the types of assessment models used by registered psychologists employed by Ministry of Education: Special Education (MOE:SE) who work in the area of severe and challenging behaviour. The aim of the study was to identify and explore frameworks for practice which are currently used at MOE:SE; the theories which underpin…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Interviews, Counseling Theories, Behavior Theories
Hughes, Carolyn; Avoke, Selete K. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2010
Despite more than 40 years of legislation to improve the outcomes of children and youth with disabilities and those growing up in poverty, vast numbers of adults with severe disabilities are unemployed or underemployed and living in poverty. This article suggests that one of the factors maintaining the problem is our failure to acknowledge the…
Descriptors: Poverty, Quality of Life, Severe Disabilities, Poverty Programs
Hardonk, Stefan; Bosteels, Sigrid; Desnerck, Greetje; Loots, Gerrit; Van Hove, Geert; Van Kerschaver, Erwin; Vanroelen, Christophe; Louckx, Fred – American Annals of the Deaf, 2010
Factors contributing to parents' decision when they choose between cochlear implantation (CI) and traditional hearing aids for their child were examined. The subjects were children with severe/profound hearing loss, born 1999-2001, registered in the universal neonatal hearing screening program in the Flanders region of Belgium. Qualitative data…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Assistive Technology
Shih, Chih-Ming; Huang, Kuang-Hsu – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2009
This case study investigated a shared living space used by four participants with severe visual impairments and their four sighted children. In this case study, the authors discovered that the participants with visual impairments focused on two aspects of design features: tactile and visual. At the same time, they revealed a unique aesthetic…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Visual Perception, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Alberta Education, 2009
Alberta Education provides funding to school authorities to support the development and implementation of programming for students with severe disabilities. The "Handbook for the Identification and Review of Students with Severe Disabilities" presents case studies designed to assist school authority personnel with the identification and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Severe Disabilities, Program Guides, Disability Identification
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