The American School Counseling Association (ASCA) implemented standards that aid the professional school counselor via a comprehensive program to serve all students (ASCA, 2019). This study examines secondary school counselors working in RAMP and non-RAMP designated schools. The designation of recognized ASCA model programs (RAMP), which awards…

Creating and implementing high-quality Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals for students with significant cognitive disabilities is critical to ensure their success in school. To do so, the teacher's confidence level in writing IEP goals for those students must be high. This requires the ability to use research-based methods and techniques…

The purpose of this study, secondary data analysis, was to analyze the argumentative and informative essay writing of middle school students with disabilities. Inflectional, derivational, and compound word morphological forms within 360 essays were coded and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results are grouped into categories…

The prevalence rate of autism spectrum disorders among students with visual impairments is significantly higher than that of their sighted peers. Even with such a notable rate, there continues to be minimal research on the classroom strategy needs to support these students. While research may focus on each disability separately, it is necessary to…

This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of using a three-step prompting procedure to teach instruction-following related to on-task behavior in children with autism in a group setting. An additional purpose of the study was to determine if teaching instruction-following using the three-step prompting procedure had concurrent effects…

This article examines the work of creating collaborative learning partnerships that fully include students with intellectual disabilities. The article reviews the scholarship of partnership as a starting point in discussing learning environments that support students with significant intellectual disabilities--a group that has only recently been…

This study evaluated how students enrolled in a comprehensive post-secondary transition program learned how to use text-to-speech (TTS) software to read higher-level written text. Using a pre- and post-test research design, researchers examined whether direct instruction effectively taught students to use a TTS program. We used third and…

The qualitative research study created a rich knowledge base of contributing factors to successful transition planning by prioritizing the importance of poverty resources on transition outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to explore the meaning that secondary special educators assign to students' access to poverty resources related to…

Parental involvement has been illustrated as an important role in students' education and academic achievement in general. But it has been recognized as an intense role for parents of students who have been diagnosed with learning disabilities. This involvement appears to decrease as the child's age increases. Previous studies provided evidence of…

The purpose of this exploratory, qualitative study was to examine teacher candidates' perspectives and experiences about teaching students with dis/abilities from nondominant backgrounds in culturally sustaining ways. I conducted a series of individual interviews and focus groups with 12 teacher candidates in two teacher preparation programs…

The purpose of this study was to synthesize findings from single-case intervention studies on developing reading comprehension in students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A multi-level analysis was used to determine if there was an overall statistically significant effect of these interventions and if the effect was consistent across studies…

This study pertained to the experiences of learning-disabled individuals as they transition from high school to college. An exploration was undertaken to determine what an individual who falls into this classification personally experiences when transitioning from a situation where services that aid in creating an equitable learning environment…

This case study discusses an investigation to develop and validate a survey designed to obtain information on practitioner self-reported knowledge, use, and perceived effectiveness of recommended classroom-based practices for the inclusive instruction of students receiving special education services for Emotional Disturbance. First, students will…

The current study sought to understand the phenomena of educational programming and academic self-efficacy. The conceptual framework for this study was based on social cognitive theories of academic self-efficacy and motivation. This qualitative study used interpretive phenomenological analysis to gain a broader understanding of experiences of…

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to examine the lived experiences of students with disabilities at Golden Technical Institute (a pseudonym) in the eastern belt of Ghana. The theories guiding this study were Hosking's critical disability theory and Tinto's student persistence theory. This study sought to understand…