Kristen Beach

The purpose of this project is to develop an intervention to improve the academic language of adolescents with disabilities in Grades 6 8. Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (2013) indicate that adolescents with disabilities have poor reading comprehension. More research is needed on how to develop the academic language of adolescents with disabilities. This project seeks to fill this gap by developing three sets (one per grade) of a 12-week intervention with vocabu...