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Ruppar, Andrea L.; Afacan, Kemal; Yang, Yeuwn-Lann; Pickett, Kelly J. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
Learning in general education contexts enhances access to general curriculum content for students with disabilities. However, few intervention studies focused on general education content have been conducted in general education settings. The current study provides preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of a literacy intervention using…
Descriptors: Literacy, Inclusion, Language Arts, Correlation
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Reed, Deborah K.; Lynn, Devon – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2016
This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of a strategy for making text-dependent inferences--with and without embedded self-regulation skills--on the reading comprehension of 24 middle-grade students with disabilities. Classes were randomly assigned to receive the inference intervention only (IO), inference + individual goal setting…
Descriptors: Inferences, Goal Orientation, Statistical Analysis, Quasiexperimental Design
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Hampshire, Patricia Korzekwa; Butera, Gretchen; Bellini, Scott – Beyond Behavior, 2011
As research has suggested, success with homework tasks directly relates to overall academic achievement (Coutts, 2004). In addition, homework provides a venue for developing organizational skills that become necessary as students learn to self-manage. Thus, the importance of developing homework strategies that support both student achievement and…
Descriptors: Homework, Autism, Academic Achievement, Tutoring
Ramsey, Michelle L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Two choice-making interventions (task sequence and where) were implemented by a classroom teacher to determine the effects on the percentage of task completion, accuracy, and classroom disruption for ten sixth through eighth grade students with E/BD in a residential math classroom using a reversal design. An FBA was conducted to determine the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Grade 8, Grade 7, Grade 6
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Poel, Elissa Wolfe – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Through a grant from the Regional Alliance for Science, Engineering, and Math (RASEM[squared]), funded by the National Science Foundation, a research study was conducted to explore the use of handheld technology with students with disabilities in elementary and middle school settings. The purpose of the project was to (a) introduce electronic task…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Task Analysis, Educational Technology, Data Analysis
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Jimenez, Bree A.; Browder, Diane M.; Courtade, Ginevra R. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2009
This investigation focused on the effects of a treatment package including multiple exemplar training, time delay, and a self-directed learning prompt (KWHL chart) on students' ability to complete an inquiry lesson independently and generalize to untrained materials. Three middle school students with moderate intellectual disabilities learned to…
Descriptors: Moderate Mental Retardation, Disabilities, Task Analysis, Physical Sciences