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Michael E. Skyer – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Together, this dissertation describes the combined importance of visuality, pedagogy, and forces like power in deaf education. It documents a multimethod qualitative research design with case study and grounded theory methods to examine conflicting issues about "how" and "why" vision is used in deaf pedagogy. Initially,…
Descriptors: Deafness, Teaching Methods, Vision, Students with Disabilities
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Price, Margaret – College Composition and Communication, 2007
This article challenges current assumptions about the teaching and assessment of critical thinking in the composition classroom, particularly the practice of measuring critical thinking through individual written texts. Drawing on a case study of a class that incorporated disability studies discourse, and applying discourse analysis to student…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis, Disabilities
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Grabinger, R. Scott; Aplin, Cary; Ponnappa-Brenner, Gitanjali – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2008
Educational Technology;Technology Integration;The field of education now faces an increasingly diverse student body that includes English as second language speakers, those with physical as well as psychiatric disabilities, and multiple representations of races, ethnicities, and religions. Traditionally, postsecondary faculty have thought of…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Postsecondary Education, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
Newman, Elizabeth – 1981
The instructor's manual considers the inservice training topic of special needs students' learning styles and their implications for regular class teachers. Activities are described to help participants understand modality learning and informal tests to determine modality strengths. Teaching strategies for auditory and visual weaknesses are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Disabilities, Discipline, Elementary Education
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Kavale, Kenneth A.; Forness, Steven R. – Exceptional Children, 1987
A literature search identified 39 studies assessing modality preferences and modality teaching. The studies, involving 3,087 disabled and nondisabled elementary/secondary level subjects, were quantitatively synthesized. Subjects receiving differential instruction based on modality preferences exhibited only modest gains. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Diagnostic Teaching, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kavale, Kenneth A. – Exceptionality, 2001
This article uses meta-analytic findings to evaluate six special education interventions: psycholinguistic training, perceptual-motor training, modality-matched instruction, and treatments for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (stimulant medication, diet modification, and social skills training). Findings are related to decision making in…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Decision Making, Disabilities, Drug Therapy