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National Center on Deaf-Blindness, 2016
Students who are deaf-blind have absent, partial, or distorted vision and hearing. Deaf-blindness severely limits access to visual and auditory information that forms the basis for learning and communication and creates challenges for educational systems mandated to provide free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Deaf Blind, Individualized Education Programs
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Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Zelli, Arnaldo; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Bombi, Anna Silvia; Chang, Lei; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Oburu, Paul – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015
Background: It is generally believed that parental rejection of children leads to child maladaptation. However, the specific effects of perceived parental acceptance-rejection on diverse domains of child adjustment and development have been incompletely documented, and whether these effects hold across diverse populations and for mothers and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Rejection (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship
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Whetstone, Patti J.; Gillmor, Susan C.; Schuster, Jonathan G. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2015
Ten at-risk students in a rural high school completed a social skills program based on metacognitive strategies and aligned with social and emotional learning principles. The intervention's primary goal was to stimulate the development of metacognitive strategies for internal locus of control in the students, rather than attempting to change their…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Intervention, Adolescents, Metacognition
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Wolff, Eugenie; Mnguni, Lindelani – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2015
The potential of science to transform lives has been highlighted by a number of scholars. This means that critical socio-scientific issues (SSIs) must be integrated into science curricula. Development of context-specific scientific knowledge and twenty-first-century learning skills in science education could be used to address SSIs such as…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Social Problems, Science Curriculum
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Kilgus, Stephen P.; Sims, Wesley A.; von der Embse, Nathaniel P.; Riley-Tillman, T. Chris – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the models for interpretation and use that serve as the foundation of an interpretation/use argument for the Social and Academic Behavior Risk Screener (SABRS). The SABRS was completed by 34 teachers with regard to 488 students in a Midwestern high school during the winter portion of the academic…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Factor Analysis, Models, High School Students
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Ujang, Alijah; Alias, Norlidah; Siraj, Saedah – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2015
This study is to explore the need to develop learning modules of health education for trainee teachers in the Bachelor Of Teaching (Hons)(Special Education-Learning Disabilities For Primary Education) Programme (Bac.TSE-LDPE) in the Teacher Training Institute (TTI). The questionnaire uses the Likert scale with the close ended questions analysed by…
Descriptors: Health Education, Learning Modules, Curriculum Development, Preservice Teacher Education
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Utley, Cheryl A.; Obiakor, Festus E. – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2015
This study measured the effects of a targeted intervention, The Cool Tool, implemented in the secondary prevention tier to minimize teacher reprimands and students' on-task behaviors in an urban elementary school. The participants in the social skills intervention programs were seven teachers, across grades K-5. Assessments included pre-posttest…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Urban Schools, Intervention, Interpersonal Competence
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Ahmadi Safa, Mohammad; Moradi, Mohammad; Hamzavi, Raouf – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2015
The current study aimed at investigating the nature of EFL teachers and learners' perspectives on the intercultural competence potentiality of an EFL textbook, i.e. "Top Notch Series," which is used extensively in Iranian institutional EFL context. To this end, forty EFL teachers and eighty-eight advanced EFL learners from private…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Questionnaires, Cultural Awareness, Language Teachers
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Özerk, Meral; Özerk, Kamil – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2015
"Video modeling" is one of the recognized methods used in the training and teaching of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The model's theoretical base stems from Albert Bandura's (1977; 1986) social learning theory in which he asserts that children can learn many skills and behaviors observationally through modeling. One can…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Video Technology, Modeling (Psychology), Skill Development
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Jensen, Bryant; Reese, Leslie; Hall-Kenyon, Kendra; Bennett, Courtney – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: In this study we analyze how parent and teacher ratings of young Latino children's social competencies in rural California are associated with children's oral language development. We find (a) that there is considerable incongruence between parent and teacher ratings of child social competence, (b) that both parent and teacher…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Interpersonal Competence, Young Children, Hispanic Americans
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Murphy, Joseph – Journal of Educational Administration, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to unpack the foundations for the national standards for school leaders in the USA. The author examines some of the background of the Standards from 1996 to 2015. The author explores the two foundations on which the ISLLC Standards rest, academic press and supportive community. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: National Standards, Educational History, Foundations of Education, Meta Analysis
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Çolak, Aysun; Tomris, Gözde; Diken, Ibrahim H.; Arikan, Arzu; Aksoy, Funda; Çelik, Seçil – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study aims to describe the views of teachers, parents, and FSS-PSV counselors on the Preschool Version of First Step to Success Early Intervention Program (FSS-PSV) in preventing antisocial behaviors; in addition, the implementation process and contributions from the program will also be outlined. The study was conducted in six different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Antisocial Behavior, Prevention, Intervention
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Jdaitawi, Malek – International Education Studies, 2015
Studies dedicated to examination of self-regulation posit a bi-directional association between self-regulation and other variables including social connectedness, self-efficacy and self-control. However, to date, studies of this caliber have only evidenced that self-regulation is a predictor of other variables. In the present study, the factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Self Control, Correlation
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Hoffman, Michael F.; Quittner, Alexandra L.; Cejas, Ivette – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2015
This study compared levels of social competence and language development in 74 young children with hearing loss and 38 hearing peers aged 2.5-5.3 years. This study was the first to examine the relationship between oral language and social competence using a dynamic systems framework in children with and without hearing loss. We hypothesized that,…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Hearing Impairments
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Stanton-Chapman, Tina L.; Brown, Tiara S. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2015
The current study evaluated the play behaviors of children with disabilities (e.g., developmental delays, specific language impairment) who participated in a social communication intervention targeting skills such as initiations, responses, name use, proximity, and turn-taking. Three children who were enrolled in an inclusive classroom met the…
Descriptors: Play, Disabilities, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
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