Education & Treatment of Children articles from May 2002

Education & Treatment of Children archives from May 2002

A comparison of immediate feedback delivered via an FM headset versus delayed feedback on the inappropriate verbalizations of a student with ADHD.
May 1, 2002... The effects of immediate feedback (corrective feedback and specific praise) provided through a wireless headphone FM transmission system were compared to the effects of delayed feedback (corrective feedback and specific praise) on inappropriate...

A comparative analysis of two homework study methods on elementary and secondary school students' acquisition and maintenance of social studies content.
May 1, 2002... Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the comparative effects of two homework study methods on the acquisition and maintenance of social studies content. Experiment I used an A-B-A-B-A-B reversal design with 12 ninth graders, and...

Pupil-made pictorial prompts and fading for teaching sight words to a student with learning disabilities.
May 1, 2002... A nine-year-old male student with learning disabilities exhibiting speech and language delays, reading below grade level, participated in the study. He was taught to illustrate his own picture prompt materials for learning basic sight words....

A tool for identifying preschoolers' deficits in social competence: the Preschool Taxonomy of Problem Situations.
May 1, 2002... The purpose of this article is twofold. First, the article describes the development of the Preschool Taxonomy of Problem Situations (PTOPS), a preschool age-appropriate version of the Taxonomy of Problematic Social Situations. The PTOPS is a...

Technology applications for children with ADHD: assessing the empirical support.
May 1, 2002... Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects between 3 and 5 percent of the school-age population. One potentially effective tool for working with children with ADHD is computer-based technology. This article reviews technology...

Developing a writing package with student graphing of fluency.
May 1, 2002... This year-long study reports the results of student graphing of writing after brief freewriting periods in the 4th grade. The primary goal was to increase writing fluency. An examination of writing samples over time from students with the...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2002... The editors of Education and Treatment of Children extend our sincerest apology to Associate Editor, Dr. James Luiselli. Due to a clerical error and compounded by poor proofing, Dr. Luiselli's name was omitted from the list of Associate Editors...