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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Moderate to severe disabilities"”.
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The Impact of the Arts for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities
Students with moderate to severe disabilities are often left out of arts programs, especially in rural areas where resources are limited and drama, music and art classes are often not available. This action research study focused on a small group of students in a self-contained classroom in a high …
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Curriculum, transition and employment of individuals with disabilities: Interconnections, relationships and perspectives
… transition, and employment for individuals with moderate to severe disabilities. Employment for individuals with moderate to severe disabilities remains historically low. Results pointed to a need for increased coherence among transition planning, secondary school curriculum foci, and employers. …
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Opening the doors to self-contained special education classrooms: Perspectives on their continued use
… practices in K-12 public schools, students with moderate to severe disabilities continue to be educated in self-contained special education classrooms. This research aims to bring to light the experiences of special education teachers who primarily educate students with disabilities in …
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Literacy Instruction for Learners with Moderate to Severe Intellectual Disabilities: A Chance for Growth in Reading through Adapted Materials and Evidence-Based Strategies
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of adapted materials paired with evidence-based strategies during literacy instruction for high school students with moderate to severe disabilities. Historically, students with severe disabilities have been denied consistent and quality …
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Teaching Response Prompting Strategies to Special Education Teachers in Tanzania
Students with moderate and severe disabilities benefit from systematic instruction such as response prompting strategies, but unfortunately many special education teachers have not received training on this kind of specialized instruction. Response prompting strategies are considered an effective …
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Life Skills for Life-Long Learners: Teaching Functional Skills to Elementary Students with Special Needs
… and high school level in special education to support students’ transition to adulthood, a comparable amount of research is still needed to examine the use of life skills-based programs in elementary special education programs. The purpose of this study was to investigate how a six-week …
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A phenomenological exploration of caregivers of children with disabilities: Challenges and adaptation
… is a compilation of three studies related to understanding the caregiver's lived experiences of caring for a child with a disability. The research examined possible associated contextual factors that may lead to child maltreatment. These factors included stress brought on by such things as …
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Disability, social work and social exclusion : new strategies for achieving social inclusion of people with physical disabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… the world population (978 million people) have moderate to severe disabilities, with this figure is set to rise dramatically in the near future. OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of the study was to identify and characterise barriers (financial, social, cultural, socioeconomic) to social …