Browsing by Department "Special Education"
Now showing items 21-40 of 133
-
(2019-06-18)Department: Special EducationUsing data to inform instructional decisions is a pillar of special education practice. Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is a systematic, ongoing assessment framework that allows special educators to monitor the progress ...
-
(2010-10-21)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative effects of a commenting intervention and a commenting plus trials intervention for teaching preschool children letter naming during play activities. For each intervention, ...
-
(2011-07-24)Department: Special EducationYule’s Q (YQ) and Contingency Space Analysis (CSA) are two methods of quantifying response-stimulus relations that have not been compared previously. YQ is a statistic derived from the odds ratio and is a measure of the ...
-
(2008-07-30)Department: Special EducationThe present study examined the effectiveness and efficiency of two instructional arrangements using the progressive time delay (PTD) procedure with 5 young children with autism. An adapted alternating treatment design was ...
-
(2014-03-29)Department: Special EducationThe association made between the meaning, spelling, and pronunciation of a word has been shown to help children remember the meanings of words. The present study addressed whether the presence of a target word in braille ...
-
(2014-04-19)Department: Special EducationDissertation under the direction of Professor Donald L. Compton In contrast to conventional static assessments measuring what students have learned, dynamic assessments (DA) measure how well students can learn; that is, ...
-
(2016-07-18)Department: Special EducationChildren who exhibit language deficits and behavior problems often underachieve. However, interventions that target children with behavior problems primarily focus on changing behavior, and interventions that aim to improve ...
-
(2012-08-10)Department: Special EducationAlthough policy and research support family-school partnerships to increase student achievement, few studies have attempted to determine which variables influence such partnerships. This study relied on a national dataset ...
-
(2018-11-20)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to examine whether the Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) Telepractice Program was effective for teaching caregivers to implement EMT language support strategies and whether changes in caregiver ...
-
(2010-08-27)Department: Special EducationThe present study examined cognitive correlates of reading disability (RD) as a function of comorbidity. Students with RD vs. RD+MD (math disability) vs. RD+ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and RD+MD+ADHD ...
-
(2020-06-18)Department: Special EducationDuring third grade, students are expected to transition from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” Students who do not make this transition are at-risk for future reading failure. The increased focus on informational ...
-
(2021-03-22)Department: Special EducationPeer-mediated interventions (PMIs) offer substantial benefits to middle school, high school, and post-secondary students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). However, with no valid and reliable measure ...
-
(2010-08-02)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to assess whether understanding relational terminology (i.e., more, less, and fewer) mediates the effects of intervention on difference word problems. Second-grade teachers who volunteered to ...
-
(2014-03-29)Department: Special EducationResearchers are increasingly interested in working memory (WM) training. However, it remains unclear whether it strengthens WM and comprehension among young children. We investigated whether training verbal WM would improve ...
-
(2022-11-22)Department: Special EducationIn progress
-
(2010-06-23)Department: Special EducationA large majority of students continue to fall below basic writing levels in spite of the existence of effective supplemental writing treatments (e.g., Self-Regulated Strategy Development model; SRSD; Harris, Graham, and ...
-
(2016-03-30)Department: Special EducationEffects of a Caregiver-Implemented Intervention on the Motor and Communication Outcomes of Infants and Toddlers with Significant Disabilities Kelly Windsor Dissertation under the direction of Dr. Ann P. Kaiser Purpose: The ...
-
(2011-08-05)Department: Special EducationIn many western families, young children spend much of their time engaging in object play with adult social partners. Such interactions provide a rich context for early communication development and language learning. ...
-
(2013-06-11)Department: Special EducationThe effects of a multi-component intervention on the directed communication between preschoolers with Down syndrome and their peers were studied. The intervention included (a) one-on-one training with a therapist using ...
-
(2010-08-02)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a professional development intervention on teachers’ implementation of the Teaching Pyramid model. The Teaching Pyramid is a classroom-wide approach for fostering ...