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Yaw, Jared; Skinner, Christopher H.; Orsega, Michael C.; Parkhurst, John; Booher, Joshua; Chambers, Karen – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2012
The authors used a multiple-baseline-across-behaviors (i.e., word lists) design to evaluate a computer-based flashcard intervention on automatic sight-word reading in a 4th-grade student with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities. Immediately after the intervention was applied to each of three lists of sight words, the student made rapid…
Descriptors: Intervention, Beginning Reading, Sight Vocabulary, Word Lists
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Beecher, Larissa; Childre, Amy – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
This study evaluated the impact of a comprehensive reading program enhanced with sign language on the literacy and language skills of three elementary school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Students received individual and small group comprehensive reading instruction for approximately 55 minutes per session. Reading…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading, Sign Language
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de Jong, Peter F. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
Serial rapid automized naming (RAN) has been often found to correlate more strongly with reading than discrete RAN. This study aimed to demonstrate that the strength of the RAN-reading fluency relationship is dependent on the format of both RAN and the reading task if the reading task consists of sight words. Seventy-one first-grade, 74…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Sight Vocabulary, Reading
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Mechling, Linda C.; Gast, David L.; Thompson, Kimberly L. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2009
This study compared the effectiveness of SMART Board, interactive whiteboard technology and traditional flash cards in teaching reading in a small-group instructional arrangement. Three students with moderate intellectual disabilities were taught to read grocery store aisle marker words under each condition. Observational learning (students…
Descriptors: Reading, Moderate Mental Retardation, Sight Vocabulary, Observational Learning
Toby, Megan; Ma, Boya; Jaciw, Andrew; Cabalo, Jessica – Empirical Education Inc., 2008
PCI Education sought scientifically based evidence on the effectiveness of the "PCI Reading Program--Level One" for students with severe disabilities. During the 2007-2008 academic year. Empirical Education conducted a randomized control trial (RCT) in two Florida districts, Brevard and Miami-Dade County Public Schools. For this…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Disabilities, Urban Schools, Public Schools