Mathematics is an important but also under-explored area of education for students with disabilities, including middle school students with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. In this study, researchers taught middle school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to solve word problems grounded in life skills…

Adults with intellectual disability (ID) often have challenges when accessing written text. One promising way to address this is through the use of assistive technology (AT) in the form of text to speech (TTS) software to allow individuals to read aurally, bypassing visual decoding weaknesses. However, little information is available on how to…

This systematic review provides a synthesis of intervention research that taught mathematical word problem solving skills to students with autism spectrum disorder between 1975 and April of 2020 by evaluating the body of research in terms of "what works", "for whom" and "under what conditions". The Council for…

Students with intellectual disability often receive limited explicit instruction in comprehension strategies. The current study evaluated the effects of a multi-component literacy intervention designed to improve comprehension of high school students with moderate intellectual disability on adapted expository science text. The multi-component…

Students with intellectual disability (ID) often have limited access to general education science content. The current study evaluated the effects of a content area literacy intervention designed to improve the comprehension of high school students with moderate intellectual disability on adapted expository science text. The multicomponent…