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Christine Lindh – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The post-school transition phenomenon has been examined using educational and vocational viewpoints. However, despite evidence-based practices and policies, individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) often experience unfavorable outcomes. This population needs a voice in existing literature because it tends to be aggregated with other…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Mild Intellectual Disability, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Young Adults
Gwitaek Park – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Learning prepositions is very important for students with an intellectual disability to engage in functional communication behaviors. In addition, it is important for the students with intellectual disability to engage in physical activity at school because they spend the majority of their waking hours during weekdays at school. One way to…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Physical Activity Level, Interdisciplinary Approach, Academic Education
Danielle Frierson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research shows that students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities (MMID) transition to post-secondary educational environments and the real-world experience more barriers than their typical peers (Banks, 2014). However, limited research includes the voices of students with MMID and their parents/guardians as they describe their…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Transitional Programs, Postsecondary Education, Student Experience
Librea-Carden, Mila Rosa L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Very little research examines the critical intersection between science and special education (SPED), let alone between the nature of science (NOS) and SPED. Thus, this study focused on preservice SPED teachers' conceptions of NOS, their NOS instructional practices, and their perceptions of the influence of course components on their NOS…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Comprehension, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
Ewoldt, Kathy Burns – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Writing is a difficult task for most students. Only 27% of all students in America can write proficiently at or above grade level (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, 2012). With the recent adoption of rigorous standards (i.e., Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards), secondary students are…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Expository Writing, Paragraph Composition
Hampton, Carolann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The attitudes and opinions of special education teachers may potentially reveal insight as to how and why teachers choose to include sex education in their curriculum for self-contained special education classrooms designed to serve students with developmental disabilities. The main objective in developing this study was to gather information…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Sex Education, Developmental Disabilities