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Effectiveness of Decoding and Phonological Awareness Interventions for Children with down Syndrome
Content type: Journal Article
Many children with intellectual disability, including children with Down syndrome, have teachers who are unsure what type of reading instruction is likely to increase outcomes for their students. Effectiveness of two commercially available, evidence-based...
ACCESS! Teaching Writing Skills to Students With Intellectual Disability
Content type: Journal Article
Given the expectations that all students receive access to the general curriculum, instruction for students with intellectual disabilities (ID) must include teaching written expression. There is evidence to suggest that with proper instruction, students...
Teaching Academic Vocabulary to Adolescents With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Knowing the meaning of academic vocabulary words helps adolescents understand content-area text and improves their academic achievement. To demonstrate deep understanding of words, students reading below grade level and students with learning disabilities...
Teaching Handwriting to Elementary Students With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Handwriting is an important skill for students to acquire in elementary school. Determining and delivering appropriate handwriting interventions to students with learning disabilities can be complicated. Teachers must juggle handwriting with other...
FIX
Content type: Journal Article
Teaching students in upper elementary school to revise their papers effectively requires a three-pronged approach. First, teachers provide instruction on a relevant genre or writing form (using CCSS English Language Arts or other relevant standards as a...
Blending Wheels
Content type: Journal Article
Children with learning disabilities typically struggle with learning to read, particularly with developing phonemic blending skills. Finding ways to provide sufficient decoding practice is an ongoing challenge for special educators. Blending wheels are...
Integrating Morphological Knowledge in Literacy Instruction
Content type: Journal Article
Morphology instruction is underutilized in special education despite a substantial body of research that links the development of morphological awareness and morphological knowledge to word recognition, spelling, vocabulary and reading comprehension...
Promising Practices for Supporting Students with Disabilities through Writing in Science
Content type: Journal Article
With a growing emphasis on producing 21st century learners who can compete in a global market, there is a need for students with disabilities to develop the critical thinking and problem solving skills taught in science classrooms. However, the emphasis...
Interactive Book Reading With Expository Science Texts in Preschool Special Education Classrooms
Content type: Journal Article
Expository texts convey information. The ability to read and process information presented in expository texts is critical to later reading achievement; however many children, especially those with disabilities, struggle with the more complex sentence...
Color-Coded Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing to Students With Learning Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
The adoption of Common Core State Standards has placed a much greater emphasis on writing across all content areas. Students with Learning Disabilities (LD) struggle with various components of written expression, including developing ideas that adequately...