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Efrat Sher-Censor; Smadar Dolev; Michal Shalem Gan-Or; Esther Zach – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study examined the links between Israeli teachers' perceptions of children with developmental delay (DD) in special education kindergartens and changes in children's development. Participants were 47 teachers and children diagnosed with DD. At Time 1, teachers' perceptions were assessed via the valence of their narrative about the child and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Developmental Delays
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Hughett, Kristy; Kohler, Frank W.; Raschke, Donna – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a buddy skills package on the social and play interactions between three preschoolers with developmental delays and their peers. Each child participated in sociodramatic play activities with two peers who exhibited age-appropriate social and play skills. Following baseline, the children…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Feedback (Response), Play, Preschool Children
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Singer-Dudek, Jessica; Greer, R. Douglas; Schmelzkopf, Jeannine – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2008
This study sought to further investigate the effects of an observational intervention for two participants on the reinforcing property of pieces of string. Pre-observational intervention data showed that the neutral stimuli (strings) did not function to reinforce two participants' responding to a performance task or learning three new skills that…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Intervention, Observational Learning, Reinforcement
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Ross, Denise E.; Nuzzolo, Robin; Stolfi, Lauren; Natarelli, Sarah – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2006
Speaker immersion is a tactic that uses multiple establishing operations to increase speaker behavior for individuals with limited mand and tact repertoires. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the effects of speaker immersion on the number of independent mands, tacts, and autoclitics emitted by young children with verbal delays. In the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Verbal Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement, Developmental Delays
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Guglielmo, Hindi M.; Tryon, Georgiana Shick – School Psychology Quarterly, 2001
This study examined the effectiveness of a commercially available social skills training program plus classroom reinforcement for use with preschoolers with developmental delays. Two groups of 19 participants each received either the combined treatment package or classroom reinforcement of target behaviors only. An additional 20 participants…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Sharing Behavior, Reinforcement, Preschool Education