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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Minarovic, Timothy J.; Bambara, Linda M. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2007
This study examined the effects of teaching employees with moderate intellectual disabilities to use sight-word checklists as antecedent prompts to self-initiate job tasks in varied and novel sequences. The intervention package consisted of (a) sight word reading and comprehension instruction, and (b) self-management training using first a…
Descriptors: Employees, Mental Retardation, Supported Employment, On the Job Training
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Lohrmann, Sharon; Bambara, Linda M. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2006
The purpose of this qualitative interview study was to describe the perspectives of elementary teachers about what supports were needed by them to successfully include a student with challenging behaviors in their general education classroom using positive practices. Fourteen general education teachers participated, each having had the experience…
Descriptors: General Education, Intervals, Elementary Education, Developmental Disabilities
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Bambara, Linda M. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2004
Seminal articles are not only timely in their ability to push the field in new directions but are often timeless in their message. As relevant today as it was 20 years ago, Mayer Shevin's and Nancy Klein's 1984 article on the importance of choice making raises thought-provoking implications about what choice making is, why it is essential in the…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Severe Disabilities, Special Education, Behavioral Science Research