Browsing by Author "Parker, Richard"
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Camargo, Siglia (2012-09-07)Students with autism spectrum disorders present deficits in social interaction skills that may prevent their successful inclusion in general education placements. Considering the increasing number of children with autism ...
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Adiguzel, Tufan (2009-05-15)Given the increasing influence of technology and the explosion in data collection demands, the acceptance and assimilation of new paradigms and technologies require today’s educators, researchers, and evaluators to select ...
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Stephens, Jennifer Anne (Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Given the conflicting research results on the effectiveness of whole-school reform models (Nunnery, 1998; Stringfield & Herman, 1997; American Institutes for Research, 1999; U.S. Department of Education, 2004), there is a ...
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Denton, Carolyn A.; Anthony, Jason L.; Parker, Richard; Hasbrouck, Jan E. (The Elementary School Journal, 2004)
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Ramos, Vincent (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This study describes an evaluation of School Within A School (SWAS) alternative programs for at-risk students on two high school campuses. The purpose of this evaluation study was to report the impact of a SWAS model ...
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Olson, Elizabeth Bubonic (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Research has demonstrated that many children and adolescents exhibiting behavior problems also evidence serious reading problems as well as a low self-efficacy (i.e., belief in their ability) toward reading. The consequences ...
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Ganz, Jennifer B.; Earles-Vollrath, Theresa L.; Heath, Amy K.; Parker, Richard; Rispoli, Mandy J.; Duran, Jaime (2012)Many individuals with autism cannot speak or cannot speak intelligibly. A variety of aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) approaches have been investigated. Most of the research on these approaches has ...
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Heath, Amy Kathleen (2012-07-16)Functional Communication Training (FCT) is an intervention that involves teaching a communicative response to decrease the occurrence of challenging behavior in individuals with disabilities. FCT is a two step intervention ...
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Gomez, Leo (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)This study describes a naturalistic oral language assessment instrument used to determine language growth of limited English proficient (LEP) students in paired and non-paired learning environments. The purpose of this ...
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Cardin, Scott Ashley (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The purpose of this study was to examine the use and effect of figurative language discourse in examples of expert therapy. More specifically, one of the main reasons for conducting this study was to describe figurative ...
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Hutchins, Nancy Sanchez (2014-07-17)The purpose of this dissertation was to: (1) conduct a systematic literature review to evaluate the quality of the evidence base on social skills interventions (SSIs) for students with or at-risk of emotional behavioral ...
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Gomez, Richard (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)The purpose of this study was to ascertain which teaching strategy, structured or free writing, is most effective in teaching writing skills to elementary grade limited English proficient (LEP) students. Furthermore, is ...
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Garcia, Edith Posadas (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)A study was conducted to assess the effects of two instructional strategies: manipulative-based instruction and visual cues in mathematics (both enhanced by explicit vocabulary enrichment) in a small group setting with ...
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Hall, Linda D. (2010-07-14)Math skills are essential to daily life, impacting a person?s ability to function at home, work, and in the community. Although reading has been the focus in recent years, many students struggle in math. The inability to ...