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Alturki, Nada – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of using group story-mapping on ESL students with a learning disability in reading comprehension. The researcher focused on a specific graphic organizer in this study, called Group Story-Mapping. This strategy required students with learning disabilities involving reading comprehension to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Sparks, Shannon Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A number of studies have suggested that when children with disabilities are presented with choice-making opportunities, they can make choices (Bambara, 2004; Carlson, Luiselli, Slyman, & Markowski, 2008; Dibley & Lim, 1999; Manhertz, 2006). Teaching choice-making to students with intellectual disability is an important skill. Students with…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Decision Making, Teaching Methods, High School Students
Torgesen, Joseph K.; Houston, Debra D.; Rissman, Lila M.; Decker, Susan M.; Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon; Wexler, Jade; Francis, David J.; Rivera, Mabel O.; Lesaux, Nonie – Center on Instruction, 2017
This document was prepared to assist literacy specialists in the national Regional Comprehensive Center network as they work with states to improve educational policy and practice in the area of adolescent literacy. It comprises three major parts: Part One: "Improving academic literacy instruction for students in grades 4-12." Based on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Literacy Education, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing
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McKenney, Elizabeth L. W.; Bristol, Ryan M. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
This study evaluated the impact of performance feedback on nine public educators' level of procedural integrity to Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT) procedures for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Procedural integrity was observed during four phases: no feedback, general feedback, performance feedback, and maintenance, in a multiple…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Feedback (Response)
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Marschark, Marc; Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth; Adams, Jennifer; Sapere, Patricia – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2011
This paper examines research findings concerning the loci of the pervasive academic underachievement among deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children and issues associated with interventions and instructional methods that could help to reduce or eliminate it. Investigators have hypothesised that at least 50% of the variability in DHH students'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Underachievement, Deafness, Teaching Methods
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Grey, Ian M.; Bruton, Cora; Honan, Rita; McGuinness, Roisin; Daly, Michael – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2007
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a cooperative learning (CL) intervention on the levels of social and task engagement of a child with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) conducted in a mainstream class setting and a child with ASD implemented in a special needs class setting. The target children were two 8-year-old boys…
Descriptors: Intervention, Autism, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods
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Kavale, Kenneth A.; Glass, Gene V. – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1982
The failure of common methods of research synthesis to arrive at conclusions about effectiveness of special education is discussed. Meta-analysis, the analysis of analyses, is proposed as an alternative. Results of meta-analyses in the areas of special versus regular class placement, process training, and medically-based intervention are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Intervention, Mainstreaming, Program Effectiveness
Gloeckler, Theodore L. B.; And Others – 1968
Project goals of the Educational Diagnostic and Planning Center were to diagnose academic and behavioral difficulties in their early stages; to design, implement, and improve individualized programs for students with such difficulties; and to establish small halfway classes as a means of gradual reentry to the regular classroom. Further goals…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Attitude Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies