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LC Journal of Special Education

Mental retardation

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Promoting The Self-Determination Of Students With Severe Cognitive Disabilities, Sookyung Shin, Vera Lynne Stroup-Rentier Aug 2022

Promoting The Self-Determination Of Students With Severe Cognitive Disabilities, Sookyung Shin, Vera Lynne Stroup-Rentier

LC Journal of Special Education

This literature review explores five published articles focused on the promotion of self- determination of students with severe cognitive disabilities. The purpose of this literature review is to better understand the details of the interventions designed to support students with the most severe cognitive disabilities. Within this framework, data was collected to examine participants, settings, implementers, and results. All five studies reported positive outcomes for all students in the promotion of self-determination.


Does Rap Increased Reading Comprehension Levels?, Crystal Hall Jun 2022

Does Rap Increased Reading Comprehension Levels?, Crystal Hall

LC Journal of Special Education

The purpose of this research is to determine whether using a learning strategy will increase reading comprehension for students with mental retardation. The specific learning strategy implemented in the survey is called RAP. The researcher hopes that students will be able to generalize the strategy to other academic classes to aid in reading comprehension of course material.