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An Examination of the Relationships between Specific Learning Disabilities Identification and Growth Rate, Achievement, Cognitive Ability, and Student Demographics
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Maki, Kathrin E.; Barrett, Courtenay A.; Hajovsky, Daniel B.; Burns, Matthew K. – School Psychology, 2020
Students with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) represent a large proportion of those receiving special education services in U.S. schools, but the relationship between student-level variables and SLD identification is still not well understood. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which data collected as part of a…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Academic Achievement, Race
Use of a Technology-Based Instructional Package to Teach Opinion Writing to Students with Intellectual Disability
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Pennington, Robert C.; Mohammad, Marta; Mims, Pamela J.; Muharib, Reem – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
In the current study, we employed a concurrent multiple probe across participants design to examine the effects of an intervention package (i.e., response prompting, frames, technology) on sentence writing for three participants, ages 10-12, with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Specifically, we taught participants to write…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Writing Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Writing Skills
Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Intellectual Disability to Compare Characters in Adapted Text
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Dieruf, Kristen B.; Ault, Melinda Jones; Spriggs, Amy D. – Journal of Special Education, 2020
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effects of a system of least prompts procedure and use of a graphic organizer to teach the academic literacy standard of comparing characters in text for elementary students with moderate and severe intellectual disability. A multiple probe across participants design was used to evaluate the results.…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Severe Intellectual Disability, Prompting