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Mensi, Marina; Baiocco, Roberto; Otukile-Mongwaketse, Mpho; Paganotti, Giacomo Maria; Kubina, Richard Michael – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
In Botswana, Special Needs Education has been implemented for 25 years with some success but there is still a need for evidence-based methods like Frequency Building, behavioural fluency, and Precision Teaching to be used to measure and improve school performance and learning. We explored the impact of these behavioural technologies on reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Skill Development, Students with Disabilities
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Baida, Alissa N.; Azizi, Sharon; Jessel, Joshua – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2023
Noncompliance with adult instruction is a common problem exhibited by individuals diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The high-probability (high-p) request sequence was designed to increase compliance with low-probability (low-p) instructions by rapidly presenting high-p instructions immediately prior to the targeted low-p…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Validity, Probability, Compliance (Psychology)
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Boon, Helen J. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2020
Background: Ongoing debate about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has not resolved ambivalent teacher beliefs about ADHD. This is an important matter since teachers' beliefs influence their pedagogy, classroom management, and their referral procedures for formal diagnoses of ADHD. They therefore must be provided with up-to-date…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Teacher Attitudes
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Flores, Margaret M.; Ganz, Jennifer B. – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2009
This study investigated effects of a Direct Instruction reading comprehension program implemented with students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and developmental disabilities (DD). There is little research in the area of reading comprehension for students with ASD and no research as to the effectiveness of reading comprehension Direct…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Autism, Developmental Disabilities, Teaching Methods
Sittiprapaporn, Wichian, Ed. – InTech, 2012
Learning disability is a classification that includes several disorders in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner. Depending on the type and severity of the disability, interventions may be used to help the individual learn strategies that will foster future success. Some interventions can be quite simplistic, while others are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Problems, Academic Achievement, Learning Disabilities
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Duquette, Cheryll; Stodel, Emma; Fullarton, Stephanie; Hagglund, Karras – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2006
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a term that encompasses the various neurodevelopmental disorders experienced by individuals with prenatal alcohol exposure. FASD incorporates the terms Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE), and Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder (ARND). Early studies showed that students with…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Young Adults, Adolescents