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Ball State University offers online graduate programs in applied behavior analysis and special education with focus in autism. Our ABA course sequence is verified by ABAI and meet the course work requirements to take the BCBA exam. Study at your own pace with 8-week and 16-week formats.
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Identifying Minimal Hearing Loss and Managing Its Effects on Literacy Learning
Content type: Journal Article
Minimal hearing loss is an often undiagnosed condition that has a negative impact on literacy acquisition. Minimal hearing loss affects a substantial percentage of students, particularly those who struggle with literacy. Research has demonstrated that...
I Have a Child With a Cochlear Implant in My Preschool Classroom. Now What?
Content type: Journal Article
The purpose of this article is to present strategies for successfully including preschoolers who are deaf and use cochlear implants. The majority of children with cochlear implants attend general education classrooms in public schools. However, many...
A Grounded Theory of Text Revision Processes Used by Young Adolescents Who Are Deaf
Content type: Journal Article
This study examined the revising processes used by 8 middle school students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing as they composed essays for their English classes. Using grounded theory, interviews with students and teachers in one middle school, observations...
Social Adjustment of Deaf Early Adolescents at the Start of Secondary School
Content type: Journal Article
This study examined the peer relationships and social behaviors of deaf adolescents in the first 2 years of secondary school. Peer nominations and ratings of peer status and behavior were collected longitudinally with 74 deaf and 271 hearing adolescents...
Family-Centered Practices and American Sign Language (ASL)
Content type: Journal Article
Families with children who are deaf face many important decisions, especially the mode(s) of communication their children will use. The purpose of this focus group study was to better understand the experiences and recommendations of families who chose...
Predicting the Academic Achievement of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students From Individual, Household, Communication, and Educational Factors
Content type: Journal Article
Research suggests that the academic achievement of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students is the result of a complex interplay of many factors. These factors include characteristics of the students (e.g., hearing thresholds, language fluencies, mode of...
Teaching Vocabulary to Preschool Children With Hearing Loss
Content type: Journal Article
Despite poor vocabulary outcomes for children with hearing loss, few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of specific vocabulary teaching methods on vocabulary learning for this group. The authors compared three vocabulary instruction conditions with...
Elementary Students’ Use of Dialect and Reading Achievement: Examining Students With Disabilities
Content type: Journal Article
Nonmainstream American English, or dialect , among children may have important implications for reading research and practice. However, much of the research involving relations between dialect and literacy has analyzed dialect use in only one context and...
Cross-Cohort Evidence of Disparities in Service Receipt for Speech or Language Impairments
Content type: Journal Article
We examined the extent to which disparities in the receipt of special education services for speech or language impairments (SLIs) on the basis of race, ethnicity, or language use by kindergarten—when the delivery of these services might be expected to be...
Effect of Hearing Loss on Peer Victimization in School-Age Children
Content type: Journal Article
Nearly one third of school-age children report being bullied, primarily enduring teasing or rumors. Children with hearing loss (HL) are at increased risk of victimization due to being “different” from the general population. This project assesses effects...