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Hendrickson, Thomas C.; Horn, Annemarie – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2021
This study utilized a one-group pretest-post-posttest design (Allen, 2017) to examine the effects of the Hands-On Equations system on students' abilities to solve multi-step equation problems following explicit classroom instruction on the skill. Participants consisted of four middle-school male students, all of whom received special education…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Equations (Mathematics)
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Bouck, Emily C.; Park, Jiyoon; Stenzel, Kelly – Preventing School Failure, 2020
Assistive technology supports students with disabilities in a variety of ways, including serving as a means of instruction. Although virtual manipulatives can serve as an assistive technology tool, limited research examines virtual manipulatives in-and-of-themselves to support students with disabilities. This study explored app-based virtual…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Assistive Technology, Manipulative Materials, Technology Uses in Education
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Shepley, Sally B.; Spriggs, Amy D.; Samudre, Mark D.; Sartini, Emily C. – Journal of Special Education, 2019
This study evaluated the effects of progressive time delay (PTD) to teach four elementary students with intellectual disability on how to self-instruct using a video activity schedule. A single-case multiple probe across participants design with a multiple probe across environments design for each participant was used to assess the generalization…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Video Technology, Intellectual Disability
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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
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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
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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
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Oefinger, Lisa M.; Peverly, Stephen T. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
The note- and test-taking skills of typically functioning undergraduates are significantly and positively related to handwriting speed, listening comprehension, background knowledge and sustained attention. This study attempted to replicate these findings with two groups of high school students--those with and without the diagnosis of a learning…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Adolescents, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities