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Using Social Storiestm On The Ipad To Improve Classroom Behavior For Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study, Samantha Bordoff-Gerken M.S., Kristie Asaro-Saddler Ph.D. Apr 2021

Using Social Storiestm On The Ipad To Improve Classroom Behavior For Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study, Samantha Bordoff-Gerken M.S., Kristie Asaro-Saddler Ph.D.

The Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship

Reviews of the literature have confirmed that Social StoriesTM can be an effective intervention for individuals with ASD. Recently, researchers have begun to investigate the presentation of Social StoriesTM using technology, with results suggesting that Social StoriesTM presented through technology are a promising avenue for practice and research. In this study, a multiple baseline across participants design was used with four male 7-9 year old students with ASD to determine whether an iPad- based Social StoryTM would decrease the number of teacher redirects required by the participants in order to attend to a group lesson. Effect sizes were calculated using …


Current State Of High Stakes Teacher Evaluation For Special Education Teachers, Robin A. Snyder, Lisa A. Pufpaff Apr 2021

Current State Of High Stakes Teacher Evaluation For Special Education Teachers, Robin A. Snyder, Lisa A. Pufpaff

The Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship

Education reform legislation has led to an upwelling of mandatory teacher evaluation for all elementary, middle school, and high school educators, including those who teach special education. While this reform effort aimed to improve overall teacher effectiveness and student learning outcomes, the teacher evaluation for special education is a retrofitted version of the general education teacher evaluation model and yields little meaningful information and increased stress levels for both the special education teacher and their evaluator. Before this problem can be rectified, the barriers standing in the way to a meaningful special education teacher evaluation need to be identified. This …


Interdisciplinary Collaboration Practices Between Education Specialists And Related Service Providers, Mary K. Sisti Ma, Jodi A. Robledo Ph.D. Apr 2021

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Practices Between Education Specialists And Related Service Providers, Mary K. Sisti Ma, Jodi A. Robledo Ph.D.

The Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship

Students with moderate to severe disabilities benefit most when interdisciplinary teams collaborate to deliver individualized instruction, supports and services. This research study seeks to capture a description of education specialists’ collaborative experiences working with interdisciplinary teams composed of speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, adapted physical educators, school psychologists and school nurses. The central question that guided this study asked K-12 education specialists to describe how they collaborate with their interdisciplinary teams in four domains of assessment, curriculum development, instruction, and progress monitoring. A descriptive mixed methods approach, which included surveys and interviews, was used to explore this experience. Overall, education …


Using Picture-Based Task-Analytic Instruction To Teach Students With Moderate Intellectual Disability To Email Peers Without Disabilities, Victoria K. Benson M.Ed, Bcba, Shawnee Y. Wakeman Ph.D., Charles L. Wood Ph.D., Bcba-D, Reem Muharib Ph.D., Bcba Apr 2021

Using Picture-Based Task-Analytic Instruction To Teach Students With Moderate Intellectual Disability To Email Peers Without Disabilities, Victoria K. Benson M.Ed, Bcba, Shawnee Y. Wakeman Ph.D., Charles L. Wood Ph.D., Bcba-D, Reem Muharib Ph.D., Bcba

The Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship

This preliminary study investigated the effects of using picture-based task analyses and an iPad to teach students with intellectual disability how to send and reply to emails. Three middle-school-aged students with intellectual disability as well as three peers without disabilities participated in this investigation. The intervention consisted of two 15-step task analyses: one for sending an email, and the second for replying to an email, least to most prompting, and constant time delay. Results showed students’ improved ability to send and reply to emails on an iPad with the support of picture-based task analyses. Implications for practice and future research …


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The Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship

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