A booming gaming industry has flooded the market with educational software applications in recent years, but little evidence exists to prove or disprove student achievement using these games. In this podcast, we speak with author Nancy Nelson about the obstacles and benefits of using educational games and apps. Nancy coauthored the article “Considerations for Realizing ...

Group contingencies—which allow students to earn a reward due to the behavior of one or more students in a group—have a long record of helping teachers manage their classrooms effectively. In this R2P podcast, publications manager Lorraine Sobson speaks with researcher Howard Wills about how the group contingency intervention CW-FIT (class-wide function-related intervention team) can ...

  In this R2P podcast, publications manager Lorraine Sobson chats with Sarah Nagro about how to engage students with disabilities when teaching to a whole group. Listen to learn how strategies such as hand signals and response cards can help to keep your students tuned in. Sarah co-authored the TEACHING Exceptional Children article, “Whole-Group Response ...

  In this episode of Research2Practice, Kara Hume joins us to talk about how and why students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) might express grief differently from their peers who do not have ASD. Listen in to find out how you can best support these students after a loss. Listen now! Or, download the podcast. ...

  In this podcast, CEC’s Lorraine Sobson speaks with researcher Jeanne Wanzek about ways to improve understanding of social studies content for students with disabilities who are both English learners and non-English learners. Listen now! Or, download the podcast. Download the podcast transcript. Original Article Subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode! About the ...

In this episode of Research2Practice, Seth King and Chris Lemons discuss the results of their synthesis of literature relating to math interventions for students with ASD, strategies that seem to promote positive student outcomes, how teachers can identify effective practices to implement in the classroom, and resources for identifying evidence-based practices in mathematics. Listen now! ...

In this episode of Research2Practice, Holly Lane and Paige Cullen Pullen are with us to talk about why blending wheels work and how we can use them to help struggling readers with decoding. Listen now! Or, download the podcast.     Download the podcast transcript. Original Article Subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode!     About ...

In this episode of Research2Practice, Matthew E. Brock is here to talk about what new research can tell us about using teacher-trained paraprofessionals to implement peer support arrangements for students with severe disabilities. Listen now! Or, download the podcast.   Download the podcast transcript. Original Article Subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode!      About ...

In this episode of Research2Practice, Elizabeth Hamblet, author of the CEC book, 7 Steps for Success: High School to College Transition Strategies, is here to talk about ways to improve college transition planning for students with disabilities. Listen now! Or, download the podcast. Download the podcast transcript. Subscribe so you don’t miss a single episode!     About ...

In this episode, we’re talking with Catherine Creighton Martin and Clara Hauth, authors of the brand-new edition of The Survival Guide for New Special Education Teachers, a handbook full of realistic strategies teacher candidates and new teachers need to succeed in their first years in the classroom – and beyond. You’ve got the right stuff to be a ...