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Direct linkWhittenburg, Holly N.; Sims, Katie A.; Wehman, Paul; Walther-Thomas, Christine – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2019
High school work experience is a predictor of postsecondary employment success for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Developing integrated work experiences often requires schools to partner with local businesses; yet, secondary special education transition teams may not have prior experience or preparation in this type…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, High School Students, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Download full textZagona, Alison L.; Miller, Amanda L.; Kurth, Jennifer A.; Love, Hailey R. – School Community Journal, 2019
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine parents' perspectives and experiences of special education, including the degree to which decisions about their child's education were implemented as they had agreed upon with the school personnel. Additionally, a secondary purpose of this study was to understand how parents explain why school…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, School Personnel
Kramer, Jessica M.; Schwartz, Ariel E.; Watkins, Destiny; Peace, Micah; Luterman, Sara; Barnhart, Ben; Bouma-Sims, Jacob; Riley, Jessica; Shouse, Janet; Maharaj, Ravita; Rosenberg, Cordelia Robinson; Harvey, Karyn; Huereña, Juliana; Schmid, Katy; Alexander, Jennifer Sladen – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Introduction: The Intellectual and Developmental Disability Mental Health (IDD-MH) Research Partnership was created to learn about the experiences and needs of young adults with IDD-MH while accessing and using mental health services. Our national partnership consists of six young adults, five professionals, researchers at Boston University, and…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Mental Disorders
Dawes, Emily; Leitão, Suze; Claessen, Mary; Kane, Robert – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2019
Although children with developmental language disorder demonstrate poor inferential comprehension, few studies have evaluated the effect of interventions to improve inferencing. This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of a small-group intervention designed to improve oral inferential comprehension of narrative discourse. Thirty-seven 5- to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Oral Language
Bolt, Teresa D.; Hansen, Blake D.; Caldarella, Paul; Young, K. Richard; Williams, Leslie; Wills, Howard P. – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
This study investigated the effects of varying opportunities to respond when using a behavior management program with three elementary school students with developmental disabilities in a small group special education setting. These students exhibited both academic and behavioral difficulties. With the implementation of Class-Wide Function-Related…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Developmental Disabilities, Elementary School Students, Special Education
Lygeraki, Agapi – Online Submission, 2019
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects the functioning of the brain and consequently other areas of development in an unstable and irregular way. There are many therapeutic approaches to autism and one of them is music therapy. Music therapy is a purely therapeutic treatment (Anagnostopoulou & Manti, 2009). It does not seek…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Music Therapy
Bowden, Nicholas; Thabrew, Hiran; Kokaua, Jesse; Audas, Richard; Milne, Barry; Smiler, Kirsten; Stace, Hilary; Taylor, Barry; Gibb, Sheree – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
New Zealand has few estimates of the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder and no national registry. The use of administrative data sources is expanding and could be useful in autism spectrum disorder research. However, the extent to which autism spectrum disorder can be captured in these data sources is unknown. In this study, we utilised three…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Foreign Countries, Research
Wadley, Chloe C.; Stagnitti, Karen – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2020
In Australia, children with developmental delay and disability, who have an IQ less than 70, are eligible to attend a specialist school. These schools are called special schools or special developmental schools. Teachers, occupational therapists, and speech pathologists work in these schools together with integration aids. Children with…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Special Education Teachers, Allied Health Personnel, Occupational Therapy
Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Hughes, Charles A.; Rodgers, Derek B.; Balint-Langel, Kinga; Alqahtani, Saeed S.; Neil, Katelyn M.; Hinzman, Michelle – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
The authors in this study used a pre-posttest experimental design with random assignment to treatment or control group to assess the use of an electronic editing cognitive strategy. The participants were 16 college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in a 2-year postsecondary program at a Midwestern institute of…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Instructional Effectiveness
Stephenson, Jennifer; Limbrick, Lisa – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
This article presents a review of the research on the use of mobile touch-screen devices such as PDAs, iPod Touches, iPads and smart phones by people with developmental disabilities. Most of the research has been on very basic use of the devices as speech generating devices, as a means of providing video, pictorial and/or audio self-prompting and…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Handheld Devices, Use Studies, Assistive Technology
Gabay, Yafit; Thiessen, Erik D.; Holt, Lori L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: Developmental dyslexia (DD) is commonly thought to arise from phonological impairments. However, an emerging perspective is that a more general procedural learning deficit, not specific to phonological processing, may underlie DD. The current study examined if individuals with DD are capable of extracting statistical regularities across…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Developmental Disabilities, Speech, Acoustics
Teague, Samantha J.; Newman, Louise K.; Tonge, Bruce J.; Gray, Kylie M.; Aery, Anaha; Andersson, Ellaina; Arciuli, Jo; Arora, Sheena; Bezzina, Louise; Blackmore, Rebecca; Borland, Ross; Caruana, Jodie; Cawood, Danyelle; Clarke, Kristina; Day, Jamin; Dossetor, David; Einfeld, Stewart; Emerson, Eric; Evans, Holly; Fernandez, Ana; Goodall, Stephen; Gray, Kylie; Haas, Kaaren; Henderson, Kevin; Henry, Tania; Hinton, Sharon; Hoath, Fiona; Hodges, Julie; Horstead, Sian; Howlin, Pat; Hu, Nan; Keating, Caroline; Kelly, Eliza; Knott, Rachael; Kotselas, Pauline; Louie, Eva; McAuliffe, Zyra; O'Hagan, Gemma; Panahi, Babak; Phillis, Kathryne; Rice, Lauren; Rose, Oriel; Rotolone, Cassandra; Salvador-Carulla, Luis; Sanders, Matt; Schoch, Martha; Shortt, Fionnuala; Silove, Natalie; Sofronoff, Kate; Stace, Lucille; Taffe, John; Teague, Samantha; Tonge, Bruce; Thompson, Donna-Marie; Wallman, Emily; Viney, Rosalie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
This paper investigates the role of caregiver mental health and parenting practices as predictors of attachment in children with intellectual disability/developmental delay, comparing between children with ASD (n = 29) and children with other developmental disabilities (n = 20). Parents reported that children with ASD had high levels of anxiety…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mental Health, Caregivers
Francis, Grace L.; Gordon, Sarah; Kliethermes, Andrew J.; Regester, April; Baldini, Deborah; Grant, Amber – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2018
Postsecondary education programs (PSEs) for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in colleges and universities expand opportunities for these young adults and result in positive outcomes, including employment and improved social networks. Although participating in postsecondary education results in numerous benefits for…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Postsecondary Education, Young Adults
Santoro, A. F.; Shear, S. M.; Haber, A. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2018
Background: Associations between childhood adversity and negative health outcomes are well documented within the general population; however, this relationship has yet to be confirmed in adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Bridging the gap between public health and I/DD research is critical in order to better understand…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Correlation, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Yang, Hsiu-Wen; Ostrosky, Michaelene M.; Favazza, Paddy C.; Stalega, Melissa V.; Block, Marty E. – Grantee Submission, 2018
During the preschool years children develop many new skills, including gross motor abilities, which serve as a foundation for school readiness skills in areas such as language, socialization and cognition. Like other domains, motor skill development does not happen without practice opportunities. That is, it requires multiple opportunities whereby…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Inclusion, Preschool Education
