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Audrey E. Robbins – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A qualitative study was conducted to identify the beliefs and attitudes of preservice special education teachers regarding teaching use of tangible symbols for students with multiple disabilities. Using tangible symbols is a promising practice with an emerging evidence base that supports communication development for students with complex…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
Grove, Wendy – Ohio Department of Education, 2021
Ohio's public schools provide special education services to children with disabilities as early as preschool. Every year, the Ohio Department of Education reports the number of preschool children who received state-funded special education services during the previous year. The 2019-2020 school year had an overall increase of 906 (4.03 percent)…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Students with Disabilities, Special Education, Developmental Delays
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Stelmaszczyk, Karol – Support for Learning, 2018
This article charts one school's journey in securing an assessment regime aligned with its vision for its learners with profound and multiple difficulties (PMLD). Previous iterations, based on commercially-based systems, as well as lessons learned from reflecting on the school's own assessment practices, were used as catalysts for the development…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, Holistic Approach, Evaluation Methods, Multiple Disabilities
Armour, Carly D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The COVID-19 global pandemic provided an opportunity to reassess pedagogies, practices, and policies in higher education. In this dissertation, I explored the experiences of undergraduate and graduate students with dis/abilities (SWDs) in higher education before and during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The first manuscript is a descriptive study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Students with Disabilities, COVID-19
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Laurel D. Sarfan; Zia Bajwa; Marlen Diaz; Sondra Tiab; Krista Fisher; Emma R. Agnew; Shayna A. Howlett; Sophia Oliver; Catherine A. Callaway; Allison G. Harvey – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2025
Community mental health centers (CMHCs) offer invaluable, publicly-funded treatment for serious mental illness (SMI). Unfortunately, evidence-based psychological treatments are often not delivered at CMHCs, in part due to implementation barriers, such as limited time, high caseloads, and complex clinical presentations. Transdiagnostic treatments…
Descriptors: Parents, Parents with Disabilities, Mental Health, Clinics
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Rensfeldt Flink, Anna; Åsberg Johnels, Jakob; Broberg, Malin; Thunberg, Gunilla – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The overall aim was to examine participants' perceptions of a communication course as held for parents of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. The course curriculum included responsive strategies and augmentative and alternative communication. The research questions addressed the favourability, changes in parents' or…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Parent Attitudes, Severe Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities
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Hart, Sarah M. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2022
This paper is a methodological reflection drawn from a study on the transition from school into young adulthood in Aotearoa New Zealand. During this process, the personal priorities of young adults with significant disabilities often becomes overpowered by those involved in their post-school planning. Through the experiences of young adults living…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Severe Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
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Silvestri, Julia A.; Falk, Jodi L. – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2022
Music is a way of representing the patterns of frequencies and vibrational relationships--and at St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf, it is used it to promote language learning and transform students' educational experiences. Traditionally defined through the medium of sound, music has been seen as an approach that excludes deaf and hard of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Multiple Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Special Schools
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Lindenschot, Marieke; de Groot, Imelda J. M.; Nijhuis-van der Sanden, Maria W. G.; Steultjens, Esther M. J.; Koene, Saskia; Graff, Maud J. L. – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2022
In pediatric health care there is increasing attention for a child-centered approach, also referred to as personalized care (Coyne, Hallstrom, & Soderback, 2016). In this care it is essential to assess personal relevant functioning, hence, to explore which activities are important for a child and to assess the quality of performance of these…
Descriptors: Intervention, Intellectual Disability, Communication Disorders, Multiple Disabilities
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Cycyk, Lauren M.; De Anda, Stephanie; Ramsey, Katrina L.; Sheppard, Bruce S.; Zuckerman, Katharine – Educational Researcher, 2022
This study examined Oregon's early intervention (EI) and early childhood special education (ECSE) pipelines as a function of children's intersecting ethnicity and home language(s) with a focus on children from Latino/a backgrounds with communication disorders. We found differences in children's referral source and age of referral, likelihood of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Special Education, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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Cologon, Kathy – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Article 24 of the "Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities," along with "General Comment 4," explicitly outlines the right of every person to an inclusive education at every level. And yet, even amongst supporters of inclusive education, it is not uncommon for some students to be considered 'too disabled' to be…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Severe Disabilities, Multiple Disabilities
Jennifer Marie Sprague – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Individuals with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) rely on direct support professionals (DSPs) to communicate with them and plan meaningful activities of daily living (ADL) for them. This qualitative descriptive study explored how DSPs providing ongoing care who work directly with individuals with PIMD describe the use of…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Severe Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities
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Kirsten Lansey; Shirin Antia; Stephanie MacFarland; Chelsea Carr – Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, 2022
Postsecondary education students with intellectual and multiple disabilities are often supported by same-aged peer mentors. A single-subject multiple baseline design was used to examine the relationship between training with and without performance feedback and a peer mentor's fidelity of implementing a student's function-based intervention plan…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Multiple Disabilities, Peer Teaching
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McKenzie, Judith Anne; Kahonde, Callista; Mostert, Karen; Aldersey, Heather Michelle – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Background: Families struggle to support family members with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD), especially in low resourced settings where formal services may not be available. Method: The adapted Family Community Participation survey, measuring perceptions of community participation, was administered to 67 primary caregivers…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Family Needs, Community Services, Child Caregivers
Mary Siberry Reilly – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Assistive technology (AT) is any item, piece of equipment or product system whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized that is used to increase, maintain or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities" (21st Century Assistive Technology Act of 2019, p.9-10). Students with multiple disabilities in…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Assistive Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Students with Disabilities
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