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Effects of Systematic Instruction and an Augmentative Communication Device on Phonics Skills Acquisition for Students with Moderate Intellectual Disability Who Are Nonverbal
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Lynn Ahlgrim-Delzell; Diane Browder; Leah Wood – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
Percentages of correct responses to decoding probes (i.e., phoneme identification, blending phonemes to identify words, blending phonemes to identify pictures) were measured across three participants with moderate intellectual disability or autism in elementary school. Time delay and system of least prompts were used in conjunction with an AAC…
Descriptors: Moderate Mental Retardation, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Phonics, Skill Development
Sensationalism, Politics, and Literacy: What's Going On?
Flippo, Rona F. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Distressed by media headlines trumpeting supposed "reading-and-writing wars," a reading education professor discusses his Delphi survey of 11 reading experts. Experts agreed that emphasizing only phonics instruction and drill-and-practice would make learning to read difficult. Reading would be facilitated by bringing together…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Elementary Education, Literacy Education, Mass Media
A Practical Response to a Legislative Phonics Mandate.
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Fox, Barbara; Wright, Marypat – Rural Educator, 2000
In response to a legislative mandate to teach phonics, a rural North Carolina school district devised a plan where at-risk children received small-group instruction in phonics, reading, writing, and spelling in addition to regular reading instruction. A local university trained teacher assistants to implement the plan. Reading, writing, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, College School Cooperation, Early Intervention, High Risk Students