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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
Theory of Mind Development in School Environment: A Case of Children with Mild Intellectual Disability Learning in Inclusive and Special Education Classrooms
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Smogorzewska, Joanna; Szumski, Grzegorz; Grygiel, Pawel – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Background: This longitudinal study examines the extent to which a school classroom (inclusive vs. special education) is meaningful for theory of mind (ToM) development among children with mild intellectual disability. Materials and Methods: The participant group consisted of 166 primary school-aged children (M = 8.1, SD = 0.99), 79 of whom…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Mild Intellectual Disability
Need of Educational Technology Tools for Cognitive Development in Intellectually Disabled Children
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Kumaran, Savitha Korattikkara; Govindapillai, Renumol Vempalively – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2020
Research on special education has showed that the use of digital technology for the special need children can help to simplify their educational process. Intellectual disability (ID) is a kind of developmental disorder. ID children need some kind of scaffolding during their learning process. Hence, as part of our ongoing research to design and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Cognitive Development, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities
Effective Learning Design of Game-Based 3D Virtual Language Learning Environments for Special Education Students
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Lan, Yu-Ju; Hsian, Indy Y. T.; Shih, Mei-Feng – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
This current study aimed at creating a 3D virtual environment on Second Life particularly for special education students to enhance their first language, Mandarin, learning in vocabulary and sentence structures. Four students aged between 8 and 9 participated in this research. In addition to their inherent disabilities (mild autism spectrum…
Descriptors: Simulated Environment, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mandarin Chinese