Browsing by Subject "early childhood"
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(2012-12-07)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of individualized interventions for young children with persistent challenging behavior. Three children between the ages of 4 and 5 years participated in the ...
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(2011-08-16)Department: Learning, Teaching, and DiversityMany educators, organizations, committees, and curricula promote the importance of preschool children’s math talk, particularly among children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, to better prepare children for ...
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(2010-12-06)Department: Special EducationPrevious studies of response classes in children and adults with developmental disabilities have shown that continuous reinforcement of mild problem behavior or precursor behavior (innocuous behaviors that reliably precede ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis research examines the digital communication and composing practices of a group of preschoolers with touchscreen tablets. Four year-old children were invited to take on the role of digital composer as they used an ...
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(2019-07-18)Department: Special EducationChallenging behavior (CB) is prevalent among young children with disabilities and may stem from a reduced ability to clearly communicate their wants and needs. Functional communication training (FCT) is an evidence-based ...
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(2012-07-25)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study provides qualitative findings about informational text writing in a prekindergarten classroom. First, I examined children’s understandings of informational text features. Second, I analyzed how science journals, ...
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Nurturing Word Learners: Children’s Opportunities for Vocabulary Learning in Head Start Classrooms (2012-11-29)Department: Teaching and LearningThis study describes the word-learning opportunities available to children in Head Start classrooms and examines relationships between these opportunities and children’s preschool vocabulary gains. The sample was composed ...
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(2019-11-15)Department: Special EducationIntentional communication is a correlate of later language in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A meta-analysis on two pragmatic functions of intentional communication acts (ICAs) suggested that declarative ...
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(2010-12-04)Department: Special EducationResearch indicates that linguistic input from teachers may affect child vocabulary development in preschool and beyond (Dickinson & Tabors, 2001). Currently, there is little research on the relationship between specific ...