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Taylor, Kim; Preece, David – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2010
This article reflects on how the first author has adapted aspects of the TEACCH structured teaching approach--developed for use with students with autism--in her work with students with multiple disabilities and visual impairment (MDVI) in a special secondary school for students with severe learning difficulties in England. A brief overview of the…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Multiple Disabilities, Autism, Teaching Methods
Kuppusamy, Balabaskar; Narayan, Jayanthi; Nair, Deepa – Educational Research and Reviews, 2012
In India, Acts and legislations are in place for persons with mental retardation. Three major Acts namely Rehabilitation Council of India Act (1992), Persons with Disabilities (Equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) Act (1995) and National Trust for welfare of persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental retardation and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonprint Media, Caregivers, Cerebral Palsy
Malloy, Peggy – National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness, 2010
This publication describes a comprehensive approach to assessment known as authentic assessment, which can be used with children who are deaf-blind or have multiple disabilities. Authentic assessment involves obtaining information about children in their everyday environments during normal activities. It provides a way to learn what children know…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Deafness, Deaf Blind, Multiple Disabilities
Lancioni, Giulio E.; O'Reilly, Mark F.; Singh, Nirbhay N.; Sigafoos, Jeff; Didden, Robert; Oliva, Doretta; Campodonico, Francesca – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2010
Persons with severe to profound multiple disabilities, such as intellectual, visual, and motor disabilities, may be characterized by low levels of adaptive engagement with the environment. They may also display forms of inappropriate, stereotypical behavior (like hand mouthing, that is, putting their fingers into or over their mouths) or…
Descriptors: Children, Multiple Disabilities, Object Manipulation, Behavior Modification
Chung, Yi-Chieh; Cannella-Malone, Helen I. – Behavior Modification, 2010
This study examined the effects of presession exposure to attention, response blocking, attention with response blocking, and noninteraction conditions on subsequent engagement in automatically maintained challenging behavior and correct responding in four individuals with significant intellectual disabilities. Following a functional analysis, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification, Attention, Mental Retardation
Shih, Ching-Hsiang; Shih, Ching-Tien; Lin, Kun-Tsan; Chiang, Ming-Shan – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study assessed whether two people with profound multiple disabilities and minimal motor behavior would be able to control environmental stimulation using thumb poke ability with a mouse wheel and a newly developed mouse driver (i.e., a new mouse driver replacing standard mouse driver, and turning a mouse into a precise thumb poke detector).…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Intervention, Multiple Disabilities, Evaluation
Shih, Ching-Hsiang; Shih, Ching-Tien – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study assessed the combination of multiple mice aid with two persons with multiple disabilities. Complete mouse operation which needed the physically functional sound, was distributed among their limbs with remaining ability. Through these decentralized operations, they could still reach complete mouse pointing control. Initially, both…
Descriptors: Intervention, Maintenance, Multiple Disabilities, Assistive Technology
Kleinert, Harold; Towles-Reeves, Elizabeth; Quenemoen, Rachel; Thurlow, Martha; Fluegge, Lauren; Weseman, Laura; Kerbel, Allison – Exceptional Children, 2015
Surveying 15 states and 39,837 students, this study examined the extent to which students who took an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards in the 2010--2011 school year had access to regular education settings and the extent to which that access correlated with expressive communication, use of an augmentative or…
Descriptors: Severe Mental Retardation, Student Placement, Curriculum, General Education
Scherer, Heidi L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Over the past decade, several authors have conducted studies on samples of college students to gain a greater understanding of victimization among this population. This body of research has demonstrated that in comparison to the general public, college students are more likely to report having experienced sexual and stalking victimization. At the…
Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Victims of Crime, At Risk Persons
Hostyn, Ine; Petry, Katja; Lambrechts, Greet; Maes, Bea – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2011
Background: Affective and reciprocal interactions with others are essential for persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD), but it is a challenge to assess their quality. This study aimed to investigate the usefulness of instruments from parent-infant research to evaluate these interactions. Method: Eighteen videotaped…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Rating Scales, Severe Disabilities, Severe Mental Retardation
Varsamis, Panagiotis; Agaliotis, Ioannis – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The present study explored physical self-concept, goal orientation in sport, and self-regulation in regard to a motor task, in 75 secondary students with physical, intellectual, and multiple disabilities, who were educated in the same special education units. It was found that students with intellectual disabilities generally presented a positive…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Multiple Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Goal Orientation
Carter, Erik W.; Austin, Diane; Trainor, Audrey A. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2011
The early work experiences of a nationally representative sample of youth with severe disabilities (i.e., intellectual disabilities, autism, multiple disabilities) were examined. Using data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, we explored the extent to which various student-, family-, school-, and community-level factors were…
Descriptors: Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Multiple Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Severe Disabilities
De Bortoli, Tania; Balandin, Susan; Foreman, Phil; Arthur-Kelly, Michael; Mathisen, Bernice – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
The aim of this study was to explore regular teachers' perceptions and experiences of supports and obstacles to communicative interactions for students with multiple and severe disabilities (MSD). Five teachers of students with MSD participated in two in-depth interviews. Interview transcripts were analysed using content analysis. Transcripts were…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Teacher Attitudes, Mainstreaming, Teaching Experience
Dutt, Anuradha Salil Kumar – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Behavioral researchers have investigated procedures for identifying preferred items for individuals with varying levels of developmental disabilities. Some researchers in this area have reported difficulties in identifying preferred items for individuals with severe to profound multiple disabilities (SPMD), in part because the individuals may not…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Toys, Developmental Disabilities, Severe Disabilities
Parrish, Rosalie N. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study proposed to answer the following two questions: Do mothers of children who have multiple disabilities experience feelings that are consistent with chronic sorrow?, and What are mothers' perceptions of the chronic sorrow phenomenon? Seven biological mothers of children who have multiple disabilities were interviewed on two…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Grief, Mothers, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder