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Direct linkSylviane Valdois; Ahmed Zaher; Svetlana Meyer; Julien Diard; Sonia Mandin; Marie Line Bosse – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Longitudinal studies on mainstream children and training studies in the dyslexic population suggest that visual attention span (VAS) abilities contribute to reading acquisition. We evaluated to what extent VAS training in beginning readers might enhance later literacy skills. A large cohort of 453 children was followed from the beginning to the…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Visual Aids, Game Based Learning, Intervention
Griffith, Matthew T. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Children appear to be faced with more stressors today than ever before, and schools are tasked with providing social and emotional support and instruction to help their students navigate life's ups and downs. The purpose of this mixed methods action research case study was to explore the effectiveness of mindfulness-based practices as a social and…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Intervention, Metacognition, Action Research
Su, Yi-Wen; Swank, Jacqueline M. – Professional School Counseling, 2018
The researchers examined the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based attention group with elementary school students struggling with attention problems. The results revealed that students in the intervention group were more likely to improve their on-task behavior and decrease their attention problems during the group compared to students in the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Attention Span, Elementary School Students, Intervention
Vaiouli, Potheini; Grimmet, Kharon; Ruich, Lawrence J. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Young children with autism spectrum disorder meet significant challenges in joint attention skills and in social communication. A child-centered, improvisational, music therapy intervention model was implemented to promote engagement in three young children with autism in a kindergarten classroom. A multiple baseline design compared the children's…
Descriptors: Autism, Young Children, Attention, Interpersonal Competence
Klorer, P. Gussie; Robb, Megan – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2012
Head Start, a U.S. federally funded program, prepares children for school through early childhood intervention in social-emotional and cognitive arenas. This article describes program evaluation survey results from the past 5 years of an 18-year collaboration between a university graduate art therapy program and 8 Head Start centers. Graduate art…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
Schertz, Hannah H.; Odom, Samuel L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Joint attention, a foundational nonverbal social-communicative milestone that fails to develop naturally in autism, was promoted for three toddlers with early-identified autism through a parent-mediated, developmentally grounded, researcher-guided intervention model. A multiple baseline design compared child performance across four phases of…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Autism, Early Intervention
