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Coleman, Mari Beth; Fowler, Kristen; Parater, Alexandra Lee; Riley, Marie Jackson; Park, Yujeong; Moore, Tara C. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
Technology-assisted instruction has potential for helping students improve their reading skills. In the current studies, "PowerPoint" software was used to supplement teacher-led reading instruction for elementary-aged students with disabilities who struggled with phoneme blending to read words. The effectiveness of the intervention was…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
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Mize, Minnie; Park, Yujeong; Schramm-Possinger, Megan; Coleman, Mari Beth – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2020
Tablet devices, as assistive and instructional technologies, can be highly effectual pedagogical tools with multifaceted benefits, such as the ability to integrate multimedia and the ability to track student progress over time. The unique value of particular assistive and instructional technologies explains, in part, why they are more widely used…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Scoring Rubrics, Multimedia Instruction, Literacy
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Coleman, Mari Beth; Cherry, Rebecca A.; Moore, Tara C.; Yujeong, Park; Cihak, David F. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2015
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of teacher-directed simultaneous prompting to computer-assisted simultaneous prompting for teaching sight words to 3 elementary school students with intellectual disability. Activities in the computer-assisted condition were designed with Intellitools Classroom Suite software whereas traditional…
Descriptors: Prompting, Simulation, Sight Vocabulary, Elementary School Students
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Coleman, Mari Beth; Hurley, Kevin J.; Cihak, David F. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of teacher-directed and computer-assisted constant time delay strategies for teaching three students with moderate intellectual disability to read functional sight words. Target words were those found in recipes and were taught via teacher-delivered constant time delay or…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Computers, Sight Vocabulary, Mental Retardation
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Coleman, Mari Beth; Heller, Kathryn Wolff – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2010
The ability to read fluently is a critical skill that allows the reader to concentrate on the meaning of the text. It also can contribute to a successful reading experience. However, students with physical disabilities may have difficulty reading fluently due to any number of functional, psychosocial, or environmental factors that can accompany a…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Physical Disabilities, Feedback (Response), Reading Fluency
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Coleman, Mari Beth – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2009
Microsoft PowerPoint software is widely used in business and higher education and is growing in use with school-aged students. A small body of research has demonstrated that it can be effective in enhancing skill instruction for individuals with disabilities. PowerPoint is not a difficult program to learn, but it provides endless possibilities for…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disabilities, Instructional Materials, Visual Aids