Resources: Dissertations

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Agran, M. (1984). An analysis of the effects of a self-control training program on the acquisition and generalization of social behaviors in work settings.

Berggren, L. J. (1974). The comparative effectiveness of a parallel construction method of sampling as a source of reliable data and complexity in the language of four year olds.

Bevins, S. I. (1995). Gross motor development in preschool children considered to be at risk for academic failure.

Bluth, L. F. (1972). A comparison of the reading comprehension of good and poor readers in the second grade with and without illustration.

Cheaney, R. D. (1979). An analysis of criteria and systems for identifying disadvantaged and handicapped students within local educational agencies in Illinois.

Clayton, M. (1991). The Delphi surveys: A round one instrument designed to identify critical-entry teaching competencies.

Clayton, M. J. (1992). Identifying critical-entry teaching competencies for beginning special educators: The Delphi study.

Cook, R. J. (1996). Congruence between self and peer perceptions of teaming behaviors during group decision making in early intervention.

Copher, J. I. (1988). "Integration into the life of the community" of residents of small community residential facilities for individuals with mental retardation.

Croll, V. J. (1990). Reading comprehension improvement when readers use pictures and reciprocal questioning to activate and build schemata.  (2 copies).

Dais, T. A. (1996). Extent of co-workers involvement with African American supported employers.

Delfalco, S. C. (1986). The influence of administrative policy on the dropout rates of handicapped children.

Dieker, L. D. (1994). Using problem-solving and effective teaching frameworks to create reflective practitioners.

Donder, Jr., D. J. (1986). Nonhandicapped peer tutors with students with moderate mental retardation: Examination of changes in both tutors and tutees.

Donegan, M. M. (1997). Effects of peer coaching on preschool teachers' implementation of social interaction interventions in an integrated preschool.

Drasgow, E. (1996). The influence of motivation and response competition on the generalized of a newly learned requesting form in three children with severe disabilities.

Ellis, W. K. (2000). An analysis of alternative day program services in supported employment.

Enchelmaier, J. F. (1992). Identification of model transition to employment program outcomes and activities for persons with disabilities.

Felner, T. Y. (1993). Determinants of parent-child interaction in adolescent mothers.

Fidler, D. A. (1986). Sensory skills, knowledge, and values perceived as important by special education supervisors and their teachers. (2 copies).

Finn. P. S. (1991). The influence of organizational level and ambiguity on evaluative criteria utilized during organizational consolidation.

Flynn, L. L. (1990). Social support among mothers of infants who were hospitalized for an extended period from birth.

Forcucci, R. A. (1972). Preschoolers' verbal reaction time in perceiving various phonetic features.

Galbreath, M. E. (1987). Newspaper coverage of special education in the Washington Post and New York Times: 1979-83. (2 copies).

Gault, A. (1989). Mexican immigrant parents and the education of their handicapped children: Factors that influence parent involvement.

Goldstein, H., Moss, J. W., & Jordan, L.J. (1965). The efficacy of special class training on the development of mentally retarded children.

Grimes, N. L. W. (1979). A classroom social skill training program for socially withdrawn children. (2 copies).

Gunsberg, A. (1981). Improved musical play: A way of fostering group play among handicapped and non-handicapped preschool children.

Harris, W. B. (1975). Educating severely handicapped children in downstate Illinois nonpublic facilities.

Hopkins, G. D. (1978). A comparison of cytogenetic groups of children with downs syndrome on verbal and nonverbal measures.

Hoppens, K.

Horn, JR., C. J. (1969). Federal aid for preparation of personnel to reach the handicapped.

Huang, S. C. C. (1988). Assessing knowledge structure: The development and try out of mapping techniques. (3 copies).

Hughes, C. (1990). The use of self-instruction with multiple exemplars to teach generalized problem-solving to individuals with severe mental retardation.

Hughes, M. A. L. (1992). Stress and coping of parents of hospitalized premature infants.

Hunt, E. A. (1974). Selected comparisons between former recipients of Usoe/Beh training in special education administration who hold special education administration positions and college or university teaching positions.

Hunter, A. E. S. (1980). Criteria identifies and validated by impaired workers for the selection of the training setting for their job competency development.

Hutchinson, S. M. (1984). Effectiveness and feasibility of a stress management program for third grade children.

Hyun, J. H. K. (1995). Facilitating communication between Korean mothers and their young children with developmental delays through a home-based conversational intervention.

Jackson, C. E. (1984). The effectiveness of conversational skill training on the development of communicative competence in children with language and learning problems.

Jackson, K. E. (1978). Identification of parenting skills perceived as having the greatest positive impact on infant from low-income families.

Johnson, J. R. (1991). Assessing the extent of co-workers involvement with supported employers.

Johnson, L. J. (1985). Factors That Influence Skill Acquisition of Practicum Students During a Field-Based Experience.

Jordan, L. J. (1961). Efficacy of a reading readiness with the educable mentally retarded. (3 copies).

Karnilowicz, W. (1988). The attitudes of non-disabled high school students toward same-age, same-sex peers with disabilities.

Karten, S. (1975). An exploratory study of some cognitive behaviors of hearing and deaf children.

Kass, C. E. (1962). Some Psychological Correlates of Severe Reading Disability (Dyslexia)

Kronick, N. C. (1996). African American Males With Mental Retardation: Friendship Formation and Maintenance in Community Based Employment.

Ladmer, L.A. (1994). Implentation of a Family-Centered Philosophy in Early Intervention: Perspectives of Families and Professionals.

Lagomarcino, T. R. (1989). Assessing the multidimensional nature of integration in employment settings.

Lartz, M. N. (1989). An analysis of maternal questions to young children during storybook reading.

Lewis, G. F. (1988). The social competence of preschool children’s response to conflict and peer acceptance in a mainstreamed classroom.

Lewman, B. S. (1987). Socialization of gifted girls: Has the process changed to prepare girls to meet today’s challenges?

Lively, C. (1988). An investigation of attitudes and receptivity of managers in community facilities toward integration and instruction of persons with severe handicaps.

Luft, P. J. (1995). An investigation of career patterns of transition-age youths and older workers.

MacKinnon, F. A. (1966). The relationship of perceived patterns of parent-child decision making to divergent thinking ability in gifted children.

Marco, W. D. (1969). The scatter of intellectual abilities of the hard of hearing as assessed by the Wechsler intelligence scale for children.

Maude, S. P. (1990). Personnel preparation in early intervention: An initial investigation into content specification.

Maxwell, C. H. (1986). An analysis of reported factors contributing to job terminations of individuals with severe disabilities in relation to length of tenure and type of job. (2 copies).

McCarrens-Biehl, J.A. (1995). Early Childhood Special Education Coordinators Report on the Prevalence of Dual Enrollment of Preschool Children with Identified Developmental Delays or Disabilities at the National Level.

McCaughrin, W.B. (1998). Longitudinal Trends of Competitive Employment for Developmentally Disabled Adults: A Benefit-Cost Analysis (2 copies).

McNair, J.L. (1989). Co-Worker Involvement in Supported Employment Programs. (2 copies).

McPhail, J.C. (1974). Ther Relationship of the Ability or Inability to Use Comparison in Verbal Description and Short Term Auditory and Visual Recall Span.

Menchetti, B.M. (1987). An Analysis of Select Psychometric Properties of the Vocational Assessment and Curriculum Guide. (2 copies).

Neutens, J.J. (1973). An Evaluation Instrument for Appraising the Dating, Premarital, and Marital Related Attitudes of Educable Mentally Handicapped Teenage Students.

Oellien, D.B. (1974). Test Evaluation for Diagnosis of Reading Problems for the Classroom Teacher.

O'Reilly, M.F. (1992). An Analysis fo Supervision to Teach Systematic Instruction Competencies to Special Education Student Teachers.

Page, B.K. (1995). Life Scraps/A Patchwork Quilt: Vignettes from the Lives of Brenda and Jim.

Painter, G.

Palincsar, A. S. (1982). Improving the reading comprehension of junior high students through the reciprocal teaching of comprehension-monitoring strategies.

Pino, J. F. (1970). Employer rating of the suitability of certain occupations for deaf persons and the vocational status of deaf employees in certain industries.

Pohl, R. G. (1969). Teacher nomination of intellectually gifted children in the primary grades.

Prendergast, S. G. (1992). Capturing and maintaining deaf toddler gaze in pretend play: A comparison of dyads with deaf and hearing mothers.

Rawlyk, S. L. (1974). Delivery of special education services in Saskatchewan.

Reed, F. E. (1995). The preparation of preservice regular educators for inclusion: A national perspective.

Reinoehl, R. B. (1992). Intervention with individuals who have severe disabilities: General case instruction communication and a methodological critique deaf intervention for self-injury. Research project.

Ritter, S. A. (1985). Teaching middle school students to use a test taking strategy.

Rockenbeck, M. U. (1975). An analog study of the label Educable mentally retarded attitudes toward the educable mentally retarded, and helper-trainees rated levels of empathic understanding.

Rubin, S. S. (1995). Wording formats and biases in interview responses by adults with mental retardation.

Ruchey, K. (1970). A comparison of oddity program and clustered program approaches to training semantic generalization in educable children.

Rylance, B. J. (1996). Predictors of school existing status and post-school administrators to compare costs of handicapped programs.

Schneider, K. E. (1987). A cost analysis decision making model for school administrators to compare costs of handicapped programs. (2 copies).

Schultz. R. P. (1984). Assessing employers expectations of entry-level survival skills for light industrial occupations.

Schworm, R. W. (1976). The role of selective attention in decoding.

Shobaki, J. A. (1985). In-grade retention of students in Jordanian public schools, grades 4 through 6.

Shuster, S. K. (1968). An analysis of leadership styles of recreation leaders in a setting for normal and educable mentally handicapped children.

Sister Kortas, M. (1969). The effects of a teacher-administrated token reinforcement program on educable retarded children in programmed reading.  (missing).

Smith, P. J. (1981). Special education training for preservice regular educators: An evaluation.

Stayton, V. D. (1986). Looking at patterns of mothers with handicapped and nonhandicapped babies in play and instructional interaction.

Trach, J. S. (1989). Analysis of the interrelationship of employment services and supported employment program outcomes.

Turan, Y. (1994). Promoting social responsiveness for young children with disabilities by enhancing the reinforcing value of social interactions.

Uhlir, R. F. (1972). Attrition of teachers of the educable mentally retarded in Iowa.

Washington, E. D. (1968). Matching and naming letters of the alphabet with and without redundant color cues.

Watts, E. H. (1995). A comparison of parents and teachers preferences for managing different levels of stereotypic behavior.

Whitten, M. E. (1989). The extent of which new teacher induction addresses the referral process for special education.

Wilson, P. G. (1991). An analysis of motivational variables in correspondence training.

Wischnowski, M. W. (1996). Writing an interagency transition agreement to bridge early intervention and early childhood special education services: Supports and barriers.

Wise, K. T. (1979). Levels of unity in production of long utterances in Laura.

Wright, L. S. (1969). Perceptual and cognitive characteristics and their relationship to social factors and academic achievement in third grade conduct problem boys.

Zbiden, W. R. (1970). Psycholinguistic and perceptual correlates of spelling in educable mentally handicapped children.

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