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Interactive Book Reading With Expository Science Texts in Preschool Special Education Classrooms
Content type: Journal Article
Expository texts convey information. The ability to read and process information presented in expository texts is critical to later reading achievement; however many children, especially those with disabilities, struggle with the more complex sentence...
Print-Focused Read-Alouds in Early Childhood Special Education Programs
Content type: Journal Article
The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of print-focused read-alouds, implemented by early childhood special education (ECSE) teachers alone or in conjunction with caregivers, on the print knowledge of children with language impairment (LI)...
Teaching Vocabulary to Preschool Children With Hearing Loss
Content type: Journal Article
Despite poor vocabulary outcomes for children with hearing loss, few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of specific vocabulary teaching methods on vocabulary learning for this group. The authors compared three vocabulary instruction conditions with...
Effects of Emergent Literacy Interventions for Preschoolers With Autism Spectrum Disorder
Content type: Journal Article
Combining data from a series of three planned consecutive randomized controlled trials, the present study investigates two literacy interventions for preschool children with autism spectrum disorder. For the first cohort, children were randomized to...
Improving Engagement: Integrating Assistive Technology in Early Literacy
Content type: Journal Article
Although there are documented benefits and legislative mandates for children from birth through age 22, assistive technology (AT) is highly underused, especially among young children (Dunst & Trivette, 2011). One of the main reasons for this underuse is...
Teaching Foundational Reading Skills to Students With Intellectual Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
A large body of literature demonstrates that students with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) can learn to read using the same evidence-based practices that are effective for other struggling readers. However, many teachers have not been trained to apply these...
Practice-Based Coaching to Support Paraeducator Implementation of Shared Book-Reading Strategies in Preschool
Content type: Journal Article
The practice based coaching (PBC) framework offers early childhood special educators (e.g., teachers and paraprofessionals) the opportunity to collaborate in order to best support the needs of the children in their classroom. Evidence-based strategies (i.e...
Shared Reading and Guided Play for Vocabulary Instruction With Young Children
Content type: Journal Article
Delays in oral language development in early childhood can be an indicator for later reading disabilities and affect students’ overall school success through high school. Fortunately, there are research-based approaches to help young students at risk for...
The Effects of an Intensive Shared Book-Reading Intervention for Preschool Children at Risk for Vocabulary Delay
Content type: Journal Article
This study examined the effects of an intensive shared book-reading intervention on the vocabulary development of preschool children who were at risk for vocabulary delay. The participants were 125 children, who the researchers stratified by classroom and...