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Mannion, Lydia – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2022
This paper evaluates literature surrounding the effectiveness of Precision Teaching (PT) for improving the skill acquisition of children with autism. PT's aim is the attainment of behavioural fluency across educational and social contexts, as well as potentiality to enhance the learning of pupils with autism. This review evaluates the existing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Alnahdi, Ghaleb Hamad – International Education Studies, 2015
A systematic review of the literature related to instructional strategies to improve reading skills for students with intellectual disabilities was conducted. Studies reviewed were within three categories; early reading approaches, comprehensive approaches, and one method approach. It was concluded that students with intellectual disabilities are…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Reading Instruction, Literature Reviews, Teaching Methods
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Miller, Etta – Elementary School Journal, 1979
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Learning Modalities
United States Senate Republican Policy Committee, Washington, DC. – 1989
The major theory examined in this paper is that the increasing problem of illiteracy in the United States may be due to a faulty method of teaching reading. The causes of the illiteracy problem and possible solutions are explored using evidence from reading research and classroom results. The following topics concerning the teaching of reading are…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Educational Change, Educational History
Partridge, Susan – 1979
In the neurological impress method the teacher sits slightly behind the child, a book is held jointly, and the teacher and child read aloud simultaneously with the teacher directing his/her voice into the child's ear as the child slides a finger along each line following the words as they are spoken. No attempt is made to teach sounds or word…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Listening Skills, Literature Reviews, Oral Reading
Conners, Frances A. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1992
Analysis of research on reading instruction for children with moderate mental retardation indicated that word analysis instruction is a feasible option; word analysis is the most effective method of oral reading error correction; and the strongest sight-word instruction methods include those that use picture integration, constant delay, and the…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Error Correction, Moderate Mental Retardation
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Browder, Diane M.; Lalli, Joseph S. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1991
This review of 20 years of literature on sight word instruction for individuals with handicaps examines effectiveness data for procedures teaching word recognition and comprehension. Covered are "errorless procedures," prompt elimination, stimulus fading, time delay, easy to hard discrimination, and trial and error with feedback. Two tables…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Difficulty Level, Discrimination Learning, Feedback
Groff, Patrick – 1985
Intended to help dispel several unsupported "myths" about reading instruction, this book analyzes a selected group of teaching practices that have been supported by reading experts but not by research findings. The "myths" discussed in the first 12 chapters of the book are as follows: (1) phonics hinders comprehension; (2) unpredictable spelling…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Dictionaries, Educational Theories, Elementary Education