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Prereferral Intervention: A Review Of The Research, J. Ron Nelson, Deborah J. Smith, Lonnie Taylor, John M. Dodd, Ken Reavis Aug 1991

Prereferral Intervention: A Review Of The Research, J. Ron Nelson, Deborah J. Smith, Lonnie Taylor, John M. Dodd, Ken Reavis

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

There is a national trend toward requiring prereferral intervention procedures prior to placing students in special education programs. A review of the research associated with prereferral intervention is presented. Findings suggest that prereferral intervention approaches can have positive impact on special education service delivery practices. The findings also indicate that such interventions can increase the abilities of teachers to educate students who are experiencing difficulty and improve the attitudes of teachers toward such students. Furthermore, the interventions implemented under the prereferral intervention approaches appear to produce the desired student performance, which decreases the overidentification of students as having handicaps. In …


Comprehension Strategies Of Two Deaf Readers, Sue Livingston Jul 1991

Comprehension Strategies Of Two Deaf Readers, Sue Livingston

Publications and Research

Strategies for reading comprehension used by two deaf college students as they discussed assigned readings with their teacher and classmates are here shown in examples categorized, tallied, and compared. Both were active users of strategies, and their pattern of strategy use was similar: interpreting, questioning, paraphrasing, and integrating were the strategies most used. The student reader who preferred expressing and receiving English-like sign manifested a higher proportion of inaccurate interpretations and paraphrases than did the student reader who preferred receiving and expressing American Sign Language (ASL), primarily because the former was unfamiliar with written linguistic cues and conventions of narrative …


Lesson 4: Academic Self-Management, Nancy K. Glomb Jan 1991

Lesson 4: Academic Self-Management, Nancy K. Glomb

Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Paraprofessional Training Project, Robert L. Morgan, G. W. Gassman, S. Rule, Charles L. Salzberg Jan 1991

Paraprofessional Training Project, Robert L. Morgan, G. W. Gassman, S. Rule, Charles L. Salzberg

Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of Computer Use On The Process Writing Of Learning Disabled Students, John W. Hill Jan 1991

The Effect Of Computer Use On The Process Writing Of Learning Disabled Students, John W. Hill

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.