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A Closer Look at the Impact of Special Education Advocacy Training on Graduates
(2024-04-29)
As the special education process can be difficult for parents to navigate, special education advocates have arisen to help. Yet because there is no formal training required to become a special education advocate, there is ...
Relationship of Inference-Making to Reading Comprehension in Struggling Middle Schoolers
(2022)
This study evaluated how well different types of inferences predict reading comprehension achievement in 155 struggling middle school readers. Text-based inferences, particularly the ability to link pronouns to their ...
Targeting Communication Adaptability During Functional Communication Training With Lag Schedules of Reinforcement to Increase Variable Manding
(2022-12-17)
We replicated and extended previous findings on utilizing lag schedules of reinforcement
to increase manding and decrease challenging behavior. We used FCT with a lag schedule to
teach the participant to request his toys ...
Nashville Literacy Resources for Kids
(2017)
Created with Dr. Donna Y. Ford of Vanderbilt’s Department of Special Education, the booklet details places in Nashville to find free books, free literacy tutoring, and online literacy resources. Each resource is accompanied ...
Multilingual? Multidisciplinary! Teachers' Collaboration to Support English Language Learners with Visual Impairments
(2024-04-22)
The purpose of this paper was to determine the following research questions:
(1A) What is the frequency and perception of collaboration between English as a second language (ESL) teachers and teachers of the visually ...
Hospital to School Transition: The Experience of Caregivers of Children with Disabilities and Special Healthcare Needs
(2023-05)
The transition from hospital to school settings can be a challenging process for individuals involved, particularly for children with disabilities and special healthcare needs and their caregivers. Hospital and school ...
Target Acquisition and Relatedness to Embedded Play
(2023-05)
Research demonstrates that embedded direct instruction is an effective teaching method for changing child behavior. However, it is unclear how to optimize learning outcomes when using embedded direct instruction to teach ...
Using Stay-Play-Talk To Increase Levels Of Initiations And Responses For Children With Social Delays
(2023)
Children with social delays may engage in lower rates of reciprocal peer interactions that can affect social communication development due to the lack of opportunity, deficits in play skills and joint attention. Researchers ...
Font Size and Style in Educational Materials
(2023-04)
Using examples from leveled readers as reference, Font Size and Styles in Educational Materials (Gosnell & Schles, 2023), helps explain how font size naturally decreases as students progress through grade levels and how ...
Using Time Delay in Small Groups to teach Spanish and Telugu Vocabulary Words
(2023)
Prompting procedures such as Constant Time Delay (CTD) are effective in teaching various skills to young children however there exists limited evidence on the use of time delay procedures to teach children different ...