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Amounts Of Nonverbal Behavior In Students Labeled Behaviorally Impaired And Comparison Students, Christine Rudolph

Student Work

The child’s behavioral and communicative skills are comprised of verbal and nonverbal components. The importance of a nonverbal context for smooth communication and interaction is often only evident when it is absent or defective, such as in children with severe behavioral disorders (autistic, schizophrenic). Actions and the way of saying things, rather than words, are essentially important since they are used deliberately or inadvertently to convey feelings or attitudes and determine the effectiveness of social and working relationships.

Preservice Training Of Teachers For Mainstreaming Handicapped Students, Janine Dahms Walker

Culminating Projects in Special Education

This study examined student teachers' perception,of their training program coverage of knowledge and skills necessary to accommodate handicapped students in the regular classroom. Students indicated through surveys the degree of coverage of skills and knowledge and whether they felt sufficient knowledge was obtained. The return rate was 53% with scores ranging from 22% to 72% across both measures.

Elementary majors and students with at least one course in special education were more positive about their training programs. Secondary majors and students with no special education.course work were less positive about their training programs. The data demonstrated that even with a …

Notification Of A Commercial Reading Program Presented As Learning Activity Packets For Learning Disabled Students, Edna M. Meyers

All Graduate Projects

This project represents a modification of a commercial reading program, with individual learning activity packets as the management tool for the program. The project plan provides for:

1. Program goals and objectives

2. An initial placement test

3. Unit criterion tests

4. Mastery level tests

5. Individual learning activity packets

Each learning activity packet includes:

1. Individual student record and assignment page

2. Individual story report forms

3. Vocabulary words

4. Detailed comprehension questions

5. Individual student/teacher reading contract

This project provides a reading program that meets the unique instructional needs of the learning disabled student in a financially feasible …

A Study Of Mainstreaming In The Elementary School, Judy Lachman

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Activities To Increase The Social Awareness Of Learning Handicapped Children In Kindergarten, Marcheta Herbranson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Teaching Multiplication And Division To Learning Disabled Children, Vickie Singley

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Language Processing Strategies Upon Reading Comprehension, Kathy Ann Kirby

Masters Theses

In 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed providing educational services for children with exceptionalities. Learning disabilities was one of those exceptionalities whose definition used a language disorder as its major criteria for the identification and classification of a specific learning disabilities. The inclusion of language disorders within its definition brought about greater interest in language and the understanding of language development, acquisition and processing and how these aspects related with academic learning, particularly with reading.

The purpose of this study was to address the issue of language processing strategies in the remediating of language deficits and …

The Effects Of Test-Taking Instruction Upon The Test Scores Of Students Labeled As Learning Disabled, Deborah Wolfson

Masters Theses

A multiple-baseline design was used to investigate the effects of test-taking instruction upon the social studies test scores of four seventh grade students labeled as learning disabled. This two-phased (baseline and post-intervention) study ran for two semesters and included 14 test entries. All the tests were administered in the subjects' social studies class and scored by the subjects' social studies teacher. The teacher was not informed as to the nature of this study while it was in progress. The 10- day, individually instructed intervention package included activities in (a) test preparation (b) general test-taking principles (c) clue words (d) following …

An Assessment Of Communication And Service Needs To Be Provided To The Regular Education Teacher By The Resource Teacher, Jacqueline Lee Holt

Masters Theses

This study was designed to determine the types of communication and assistance that should be provided to regular education teachers by the resource teachers. This study also attempted to determine if there was any significance in the needs of regular education teachers based on the grade level, level of education, and/or sex of the respondents. An open-ended questionnaire was distributed to students enrolled in graduate level classes at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. Responses obtained from the questionnaire were used to construct a second, multiple choice questionnaire. The questionnaire analyzed three main areas (a) consultation, (b) materials, and (c) …