Speech Recognition Technology for Writing: Usage Patterns and Perceptions of Students with High Incidence Disabilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 016264342097992
Author(s):  
Min Wook Ok ◽  
Kavita Rao ◽  
Jon Pennington ◽  
Paula R. Ulloa
Keyword(s):  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Teacher Perceptions ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Perceptions Of Students ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Usage Patterns ◽  
Student And Teacher Perceptions ◽  
Individual Needs ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities

This exploratory study examined the usage of speech recognition (SR) technology by students with high incidence disabilities in grades 4–8 and student and teacher perceptions of using SR as part of the writing process. The study also examined factors contributing to students' use of SR and barriers to using this technology. Results indicated that students across all grades had positive perceptions about using SR, but younger students tended to use it more often. SR was especially helpful for students who struggled with spelling and supported some, but not all, students with drafting text. The study illustrated the importance of taking student variability into account in relation to affinity for SR usage. By integrating opportunities for using SR as part of writing instruction and guiding students to reflect on whether the technology is useful for their individual needs and preferences, teachers can help students with disabilities make choices to use SR in ways that are the most useful for their individual needs.

Sufficiency of Teachers’ Access to Resources and Supports for Students With Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 088840642110462
Author(s):  
Samantha A. Gesel ◽  
Lindsay Foreman-Murray ◽  
Allison F. Gilmour
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
General Educators ◽  
Release Time ◽  
Service Delivery Model ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities ◽  
And Training

Students with disabilities are served by both special and general educators, yet teachers often feel unprepared to meet the needs of these students in their classrooms. Using data from a nationally representative survey, we examined the sufficiency of teachers’ access to supports available for meeting the needs of students with high-incidence disabilities, their access to development opportunities, and the sources teachers used to access interventions. We explored differences in teachers’ experiences by grade band, service delivery model, and teacher preparation model. We found teachers of students with disabilities rated the sufficiency of access to supports between somewhat insufficient and somewhat sufficient, with the lowest ratings for planning/release time and training and information. Teachers reported greater rates of access to collaboration than professional development. Colleagues were sources for resources related to academic interventions and administrators were sources for nonacademic intervention resources. There were few significant differences in these results by teacher characteristics.

Evidence-Based Learning Strategies: Preparing Students With High-Incidence Disabilities for College

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 204-211
Author(s):  
Amber B. Ray
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
College Teaching ◽  
Academically Successful ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Test Taking ◽  
Assignment Completion ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities

An increasing number of students with disabilities now attend college, but many do not complete their college program due to poor grades. This may occur because students with high-incidence disabilities often struggle acquiring the academic skills essential to success in college. Teaching learning strategies to students with high-incidence disabilities in high school can help prepare them to be academically successful in college. Learning strategies are specific techniques used to help students approach and learn content material. This article presents five strategies for learning academic content that can be taught to students with high-incidence disabilities who aim to go to college. The learning strategies incorporate mnemonics and an evidence-based practice and are intended to improve students’ listening during class, effective note taking, reading content material, assignment completion, and test taking.

Predictors of Postschool Education/Training and Employment Outcomes for Youth With Disabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela M. T. Prince ◽  
Janie Hodge ◽  
William C. Bridges ◽  
Antonis Katsiyannis
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Outcome Data ◽  
District Level ◽  
Youth With Disabilities ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Indicator 14 ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities ◽  
The Impact

Youth with disabilities have consistently poor postschool engagement outcomes in employment and postsecondary education and training. At least once every 6 years, states are required to submit a State Performance Plan in which they report performance on the progress of students with disabilities (20 U.S.C. 1416(b)(1)). Indicator 14 requires states to collect postschool outcome data 1 year after students exit high school. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the impact of student-, school-, district-level, and combined (student + school + district) factors on engagement outcomes for youth with high incidence disabilities across 3 years. Findings from logistic regression analyses indicate that student-level, district-level, and combined factors were significant in predicting postschool outcomes of employment and postsecondary education.

Including Students With Disabilities in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports: Experiences and Perspectives of Special Educators

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke C. Shuster ◽  
Jenny R. Gustafson ◽  
Abbie B. Jenkins ◽  
Blair P. Lloyd ◽  
Erik W. Carter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Behavioral Interventions ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Special Educators ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
Positive Behavioral Interventions ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Low Incidence ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities

As interest in proactive and systematic approaches to supporting positive student behavior grows, important questions remain about the ways in which special education staff and their students participate in school-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). We report findings from a statewide study of 849 special educators addressing (a) their involvement in their school’s PBIS framework, (b) the ways their students with disabilities participate, (c) potential barriers to such participation, and (d) the topics and avenues through which they desire professional development. Special educators rarely participated in school-wide PBIS teams, reported variability in the extent to which their students with disabilities participated in aspects of the school’s framework, indicated that they implemented some features of the framework in their classroom more than others, and highlighted salient barriers to student involvement. The views and actions of special educators working primarily with students with low-incidence disabilities differed from those of teachers working with students with high-incidence disabilities. We discuss implications for research and practice aimed at enhancing the implementation and impact of school-wide PBIS on students with disabilities.

Using the VA Framework to Teach Algebra to Middle School Students With High-Incidence Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 016264342110193
Author(s):  
Erin K. Bone ◽  
Emily C. Bouck ◽  
John P. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Functional Relation ◽  
Virtual Manipulatives ◽  
School Students ◽  
Negative Numbers ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
One Step ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities ◽  
Multiple Probe ◽  
Support Students

Algebra is considered by many to be a gateway to higher-level mathematics and eventual economic success yet students with and without disabilities often struggle to develop algebra skills. This study builds on the limited understanding of how virtual manipulatives support students with disabilities in the area of algebra by investigating their use within the virtual-abstract (VA) framework. Using a multiple probe across behaviors, replicated across participant design, researchers found a functional relation between the VA framework and student algebraic learning. Mathematical behaviors based on grade-level curriculum included: one-step equations with positive and negative numbers, two-step equations with positive numbers, and two-step equations with positive and negative numbers. All three seventh-grade students with high-incidence disabilities improved their performance on each of the three algebra behaviors during intervention, and all participants maintained their accuracy after intervention, as compared to baseline to maintenance. Detailed results and their implications for practice are discussed further.

scholarly journals Study of Fish Types at Parit 1 Kuala Tungkal Market for High School-Biology Popular Scientific Book

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
DINI MAIDIKA ◽  
JODION SIBURIAN ◽  
AFRENI HAMIDAH
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Perceptions ◽  
Freshwater Fish ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
East Coast ◽  
High School Biology ◽  
A Value ◽  
Saltwater Fish ◽  
Perceptions Of Students ◽  
Student And Teacher Perceptions

Kuala Tungkal<strong> </strong>is a district located in the east coast Province of Jambi. Kuala Tungkal has excellent potential in the field of fisheries. Various types of fish sold in the Parit 1 Kuala Tungkal Market. Fish is a among the examples of the diversity of fauna in Indonesia. This diversity needs to be introduced to students to improve the contextuality of learning. This study aims to determine the type of fishes being sold in the market. Student and teacher perceptions about the book that developed based on the results of fish studies in the Parit 1 Market. This research is descriptive and analytic. The study describes the type of fishes being sold in the Parit 1 Kuala Tungkal Market through direct observation and interviews with fish traders, as well as the perceptions of students and teachers of high school of Kuala Tungkal (SMA N 1 Kuala Tungkal) about the book. The results showed there are 23 species of saltwater fish from 15 families and 7 species of freshwater fish from 6 families. Students appraised the book belongs as “very good” with a value of 94% and teachers also appraised the book as “very good” with a value 86,7%.

An Intervention to Promote Positive Teacher–Student Relationships and Self-Determination Among Adolescents With Emotional Disturbance

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lind ◽  
Marcus Poppen ◽  
Christopher Murray
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Emotional Disturbance ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Student Relationships ◽  
Teacher Student Relationships ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities

Positive teacher–student relationships provide adolescents with disabilities the confidence to explore new challenges in and out of the classroom. Goal-setting and self-determination skills have been consistently shown to promote healthy transition adjustment among students with disabilities. Despite the growing awareness of the importance of positive teacher–student relationships and self-determination, there is a paucity of specific strategies designed to improve teacher–student relationships while supporting self-determination for adolescents with high-incidence disabilities. This practitioner-focused article describes the Adolescent Goal-Setting Intervention (AGSI) and how it can be implemented in an educational context to promote teacher–student relationships and self-determination.

Planning Computer Science Instruction for Students With High-Incidence Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 105345122110249
Author(s):  
Amy Hutchison ◽  
Anya S. Evmenova
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Universal Design For Learning ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Science Content ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Integration Planning ◽  
Content Area Instruction ◽  
Model Computer ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities

States increasingly are adopting computer science standards to help students develop coding and computational thinking skills. In an effort to support teachers in introducing computer science content to their students with high-incidence disabilities, a new model, computer science integration planning plus universal design for learning (CSIP+) offers ways to integrate computational thinking and coding into content area instruction. This column presents an example of how a teacher might implement the CSIP+ model when designing instruction accessible to all learners. Guiding questions to support teachers at each phase of the planning cycle are provided.

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