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I Have a Child With a Cochlear Implant in My Preschool Classroom. Now What?
Content type: Journal Article
The purpose of this article is to present strategies for successfully including preschoolers who are deaf and use cochlear implants. The majority of children with cochlear implants attend general education classrooms in public schools. However, many...
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...
A New Framework for Systematic Reviews
Content type: Journal Article
This review presents a novel framework for evaluating evidence based on a set of parallel criteria that can be applied to both group and single-subject experimental design (SSED) studies. The authors illustrate use of this evaluation system in a systematic...
Using Antecedent Physical Activity to Increase On-Task Behavior in Young Children
Content type: Journal Article
A withdrawal design was used to investigate how physical activity affects on-task behavior of young children with significant developmental delays in a special education preschool classroom. Five preschool age children with significant developmental delays...
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)...
Observational Learning of Academic and Social Behaviors During Small-Group Direct Instruction
Content type: Journal Article
Many studies have shown that small-group direct instruction is effective and efficient for teaching students with and without disabilities, although relatively few studies have been conducted with heterogeneous groups of preschool participants. In addition...
Characterizing Early Childhood Disabilities in a Nationally Representative Sample Using Functional Profiles
Content type: Journal Article
The present study combined a functional abilities approach to characterizing childhood disability with person-oriented analytic techniques to identify and describe functional profiles of young children with disabilities. Nationally representative data from...
Parent Concern and Enrollment in Intervention Services for Young Children With Developmental Delays
Content type: Journal Article
This study sought to address underenrollment and late entry to early intervention by identifying factors associated with parental concern and services for developmental delays. The authors analyzed responses from 27,566 parents of children from birth to...
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...