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Emond Pelletier, Julie; Joussemet, Mireille – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
Background: The benefits of autonomy support with the general population have been demonstrated numerous times. However, little research has been conducted to verify if these benefits apply to people with special needs. Methods: The goal of the study was to examine whether autonomy support (AS) can foster the sense of autonomy of people with a…
Descriptors: Mild Intellectual Disability, Personal Autonomy, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups
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Blik, H.; Harskamp, E.G.; van Leeuwen, S.; Hoekstra, R. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2017
Intellectually disabled (ID) students in secondary education are often taught in an individual setting where video instruction is used. Especially, when the instruction is about complex assignments, many students may forget parts of it. In this study, we tried to find out if prompting ID students to explain video instruction would help them to…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Intellectual Disability, Assignments, Task Analysis
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Felix, Vanessa G.; Mena, Luis J.; Ostos, Rodolfo; Maestre, Gladys E. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Despite the potential benefits that computer approaches could provide for children with cognitive disabilities, research and implementation of emerging approaches to learning supported by computing technology has not received adequate attention. We conducted a pilot study to assess the effectiveness of a computer-assisted learning tool, named…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Bibliotherapy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Multimedia Instruction
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Gunderson, Jamie Linn; Higgins, Kyle; Morgan, Joseph John; Tandy, Richard; Brown, Monica R. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2017
The purpose of this study was to improve access to general education curricula, through the use of an iPad, for students with intellectual disabilities (IDs). The participants were 72 students (kindergarten through eighth grade) identified as having an ID. During the 6-week study, the 41 students in the experimental iPad group received academic…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Handheld Devices, Cognitive Ability, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Agaliotis, Ioannis; Teli, Afroditi – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
The effectiveness of two instructional interventions was investigated in the context of teaching Arithmetic Combinations (ACs) of multiplication and division to students with Learning Disabilities (LD) or Mild Intellectual Disability (MID). The intervention for the control group (LD = 20, MID = 10) was based on principles of effective instruction,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Mild Intellectual Disability