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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Cognitive disabilities"”.
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The Inclusion Of Students With Cognitive Disabilities in a High School Environment
… to investigate the inclusion of students with cognitive disabilities in high school environment primarily from the teachers’ perspectives. Specifically tow questions are addressed: (a) What are the characteristics present and to what degree in a high school inclusionary environment? (b) What …
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Co-Creating Solutions: Affordable Healthy Eating for Individuals Living with Cognitive Disabilities
… elusive for many, especially those living with cognitive disabilities. Cognitive disabilities affect one's ability to plan, recall information, make decisions, use tools (like recipes), or even stay attentive, making it difficult for them to plan and eat healthy meals. Additionally, this …
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Teachers' Attitudes and Their Effect on Placement Recommendations for Students with Cognitive Disabilities
… Law 94-142 in 1974 guaranteed that students with disabilities had the right to be educated alongside their peers in the least restrictive environment. However, decades later, administrators, teachers, and parents continue to struggle to resolve the issue on how to include students with …
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An evaluation of two approaches for developing keyboarding skills in children with cognitive disabilities
… skills to school-aged children with intellectual disabilities. The study employed a mixed methods research design utilizing the number of accurate key strokes and speed in completing a task as dependent variables in the quantitative analysis. The scores used in the analysis were derived from a …
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The impact of alternate assessment on teaching and learning for students with significant cognitive disabilities
… all students, including those with significant cognitive disabilities, participate in standards based education and in state assessments linked to those standards. To address this issue, this study used a multiple case study design in order to determine the impact alternate assessments based on …
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Teachers' perceptions about parent involvement in the education of children with mild cognitive disabilities in Saudi Arabia
… crucial but more crucial for children with mild cognitive disabilities. Education practitioners over the past 25 years have recognized a strong link between parent involvement and children’s success in school and this has led professionals in the field to establish a relationship between parent …
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The Efficacy of Social and Emotional Learning for High School Students With Cognitive Disabilities, The Experiential Approach
… and development for high school students with cognitive disabilities? Young people are becoming more aware of their identities and values in high school. They build upon many social and emotional competencies (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and …
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Vocational rehabilitation assistive technology, access, supported employment, and employment outcomes for transition-aged young adults with cognitive disabilities
… of transition-aged young adults (TAYA) with cognitive disabilities. Introduction: TAYA with disabilities face significantly higher rates of unemployment and underemployment than their peers without disabilities. For TAYA with cognitive disabilities, these disparities are even more pronounced, …
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The effects of using Smartboard and interactive games to improve reading comprehension of secondary students with moderate cognitive disabilities
… skills of secondary students with moderate cognitive disabilities. A total of 11 9th and 10th graders in a special services school participated in the study. A single subject design of ABC phases was used. During the baseline (Phase A), student listening comprehension was evaluated by their …
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Special Education Teachers' Experiences and Perceptions of the Georgia Alternate Assessment
… (GAA) to elementary students with significant cognitive disabilities and determine how those experiences informed their perception of the Georgia Alternate Assessment. The GAA was designed to assess students with significant cognitive disabilities on grade level standards. The goal of including …
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Driving to Learn. The process of growing consciousness of tool use - a grounded theory of de-plateauing.
… possible achievements of training people with cognitive disabilities in a joystick-operated powered wheelchair utilizing the grounded theory approach. Theoretical sampling led the concomitant collection and analysis of data. During a period of 12 years, 45 participants with profound cognitive …
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Effects of point-of-view modeling to teach life skills to students with cognitive impairments
… to elementary students with developmental and cognitive disabilities, compare when the video contains narration versus sound indicators, and to evaluate students' maintenance of gained skills without watching the video. A total of 8 students in grades 3-5 with an age range from 8-11 …
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Using covert audio coaching prompts to increase student pragmatic conversation skills
The importance of social skills for students with disabilities has given rise to this study. The ability to effectively communicate with family members, peers, and potential co-workers can lead to positive outcomes for individuals with cognitive disabilities. Many students struggle with social …
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Sociodemographic risk factors for mild mental retardation, borderline intellectual functioning and specific learning disorders in a South African clinic sample
Early identification of children with cognitive disabilities is crucial for effective intervention. Although international research has identified a number of sociodemographic risk factors that are associated with cognitive disability, there is a lack of South African data that could assist with …
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Essays on Disability and the Labour Market
… the variation in labour market outcomes across disabilities by representing disability as a bundle of characteristics. Rich with information on the characteristics of a disabling condition, I use the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey to compare the relative importance of each …
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The Artistry of Accessibility: Creating Theatre with and for Students on the Autism Spectrum
… experience with other artists and students with cognitive disabilities. Through these experiences, I strive to uncover how developing theatre for this specific audience has challenged me to grow as an artist and activist.
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Pipelining: Problematizing the Social Constructionism of Disability in Supported Employment
… scope disproportionately impacts people with cognitive disabilities who are seeking employment. From a social constructionist perspective, this thesis examines how the IPS model became focused on internal factors at the expense of people who are disabled and seeking employment.
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Effects of Multi-Modal Communication Plans on Increasing Expressive Communication Skills of Individuals with Moderate-Significant Disabilities
Many times individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities struggle with developing effective and efficient expressive communication skills. In the current study, the expressive communication skills of six individuals with moderate to significant disabilities are observed to determine whether …
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"You don't know what you don't know until you know it": perceptions, practices and implementation of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for students with complex communication needs
… complex communication needs, significant cognitive disabilities, literacy
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A Mother's Spiritual Journey with Her Disabled Son: An Autoethnography
… the crib accident that resulted in physical and cognitive disabilities that profoundly change the course of both mother and son’s life, this research chronicles the search for meaning, community, and healing as they negotiate the realms of medicine, education, career, family, and spirituality. …
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