rickyWburk

The Impact of Learning Disabilities on Adulthood – A review of the evidenced-based literature for research and practice in adult education

rickyWburk — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:06:14 +0000

This review of the extant evidence-based learning disabilities (LD) literature seeks to discover relevant knowledge that can be shared with practitioners who serve adults with LD in a variety of professional and volunteer roles, particularly in adult education settings.

Gerber. Journal of Learning Disabilities. 2012, 45, 31-46.

Supporting Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in General Education Classrooms

rickyWburk — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:58:23 +0000

A unique partnership between the Washington State Center for Childhood Deafness and Hearing Loss (formerly the Washington School for the Deaf) and Listen and Talk created to help local, school-based teams effectively provide services to students with a hearing loss who want to develop listening and spoken language skills is described. Specifics of the collaborative process, data collection procedures, and accommodations for students are included.

Berndsen & Luckner. Communication Disorders Quarterly. 2012, 33, 111-118.

Hispanic Parents During Family-Cenered Speech-Language Intervention

rickyWburk — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:53:02 +0000

Kummerer presents strategies for implementing collaborative, family-centered language intervention with Hispanic parents and their children with communication disabilities. General strategies include establishing a trusting relationship, valuing parents as experts of their children, creating mutually constructed goals, accommodating families’ schedules and roles, individualizing intervention in the home language, and encouraging parental education and advocacy.

Communication Disorders Quarterly. 2012, 33, 84-95

Examining Relationships Among Dialect Variation and Emergent Literacy Skills

rickyWburk — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:49:01 +0000

Terry examined the relationship between nonmainstream American English (NMAE) dialect use and various emergent literacy skills among typically developing children in PreK. The results suggest an indirect role for NMAE use in emergent literacy achievement and that frequency of spoken NMAE production may be secondary to children’s metalinguistic skills.

Communication Disorders Quarterly. 2012, 33, 67-77.

The Effects of Using the Transition Planning Inventory and a Structured IEP Process as a Transition Planning Intervention on IEP Meeting Outcomes

rickyWburk — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:39:19 +0000

Rehfeldt, Clart, & Lee looked at whether secondary individualized education program (IEP) teams who used the Transition Planning Inventory (TPI) in conjunction with a structured IEP meeting that based discussions and decisions on TPI data as a planning intervention generated significantly more transition-related IEP goals. Results indicated significantly more transition-related goals, and, in addition, parents of students in the experimental group were likely to report more satisfaction with the IEP process.

Remedial and Special Education. 2012, 33, 48-58.

Effects of Immediate Feedback Delivered via Webcam and Bug-in-Ear Technology on Preservice Teacher Performance

rickyWburk — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:29:39 +0000

Scheeler, McKinnon, & Stout conducted research to evaluate the effects of using webcams and Bluetooth™ technology to deliver immediate feedback to special education preservice teachers in practicum placements from remote locations. Results suggest that immediate feedback provided via this technology was effective in increasing the targeted technique. Each participant rated the intervention as acceptable. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for classroom application.

Teacher Education and Special Education. 2012, 35, 77-90.

Self-Efficacy, Intrinsic Motivation, and Academic Outcomes Among Latino Middle School Students Participating in an After-School Program

rickyWburk — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:10:35 +0000

Niehaus, Rudasill, & Adelson reported in this study involving Latino students in 6th through 8th grades, that intrinsic motivation was positively associated with student GPA, self-efficacy was a positive predictor of student school attendance and standardized math achievement scores, and attendance in an after-school program contributed positively to student math achievement.

Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 2012, 34, 118-136.

Being All That You Can Be-The Weighting of Potential in Assessments of Self and Others

rickyWburk — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:17:12 +0000

Williams, Gilovich, & Dunning reported that participants in this study, when assessing themselves and other people, required more tangible proof that someone else has a given level of potential than they required of themselves, and they relied more on how they would ideally perform in self-assessment but more on how others actually performed in judging them.

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 2012, 38, 143-154.

The realibility of the OWLS written expression scale with ESL kindergarten students

rickyWburk — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:16:27 +0000

Harrison, Ogle, and Keilty conducted an analysis of the Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS) written expression scale with ESL and non-ESL kindergarten students. The authors concluded that the results of their analysis supported the use of the OWLS written expression scale as an early norm-referenced measure to reliably gauge ESL student early English writing skills.

Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2011, 26, 319-328

Ink and Holes-Correlates and predictive associations of body modification among adolescents

rickyWburk — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:26:02 +0000

Dukes & Stein examined correlates and predictive associations of tattoos and body piercings among 1462 Colorado students in grades 9 – 12 and found boys reporting a greater number of deviant behaviors than girls. Factors examined included: school orientation, weapons possession, delinquency, and substance use. The authors concluded educational staff should become aware of the possible at-risk status of body-modified adolescents, especially among girls who have piercings.

- Youth Society, 2011, 1547-1569