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Publication Date: 2021-May
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High School Students with Learning Disabilities: Requesting Accommodations in Role-Play
Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, v36 n2 p82-95 May 2021
Self-advocacy is an important skill, especially as students transition from high school to postsecondary settings. In this study, five high-school students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) were taught to use a self-advocacy intervention to learn to request academic accommodations. A multiple-baseline across participants design was used to examine the functional relation between the intervention and students' performance. Students learned the self-advocacy intervention, consisting of 17 target behaviors, during after-school sessions across approximately 6 weeks. Based on the visual analysis and percentage of nonoverlapping data, there was strong evidence of a functional relation between the self-advocacy intervention and an increase in participants' performance for requesting academic accommodations during role-play scenarios. Participants maintained self-advocacy skills 2 weeks after mastery and generalized accommodation requests with other school-based personnel. Social validity data indicated that participants valued the intervention. Implications for practitioners are discussed for transition and self-advocacy skills as well as future research opportunities.
Descriptors: High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Role Playing, Self Advocacy, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Intervention, Skill Development, Mastery Learning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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