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Mims, Pamela J.; Hudson, Melissa E.; Browder, Diane M. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a modified system of least intrusive prompts on text-dependent listening comprehension for four middle-school-aged students with intellectual disability and autism during read-alouds of adapted grade-level biographies. A system of least intrusive prompts was modified by inserting a rule…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Reading Aloud to Others, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities
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Dishion, Thomas J.; Ha, Thao; Veronneau, Marie-Helene – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The authors propose that peer relationships should be included in a life history perspective on adolescent problem behavior. Longitudinal analyses were used to examine deviant peer clustering as the mediating link between attenuated family ties, peer marginalization, and social disadvantage in early adolescence and sexual promiscuity in middle…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Adolescents, Early Adolescents, Biographies
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Pahlke, Erin; Bigler, Rebecca S.; Green, Vanessa A. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
To examine the consequences of learning about gender discrimination, early adolescents (n = 121, aged 10-14) were randomly assigned to receive either (a) standard biographical lessons about historical figures (standard condition) or (b) nearly identical lessons that included information about gender discrimination (discrimination condition).…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Gender Discrimination, Occupational Aspiration, Control Groups