Teaching Children With Intellectual Disability How To Read

Dr. Jill Allor is the author or co-author of numerous articles and several curricular materials. She was awarded the 2000 Award for Outstanding Research by the Council on Learning Disabilities and is the co-recipient of the Best Article in Learning Disabilities Research and Practice for 1999. She is also the co-recipient of the 1999 Outstanding Proud Project, which was awarded by the Learning Disabilities Association of America. She has delivered numerous teacher/staff development programs on a wide variety of topics, including peer tutoring, early literacy development, phonemic awareness instruction, literacy assessment, and other literacy instructional techniques.

Currently, Dr. Allor is the principal investigator on the federally-funded research grant, Project Intensity: The Development of a Supplemental Literacy Program Designed to Provide Extensive Practice with Multiple-Criteria Text for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (R324A130102 from the Institute of Education Sciences). The purpose of the grant is to develop (or select) carefully designed texts and application lessons to provide students who are struggling to learn to read, particularly those with intellectual disabilities, with (a) focused opportunities to develop listening and reading comprehension, (b) additional cumulative review of key skills, and (c) explicit instruction in the transfer and application of skills to text. Emerging research in this area is encouraging and points to the need for intensive integrated cumulative review and transfer of skills to connect text. Connected text is needed that carefully sequences word structures and facilitates the development of comprehension and oral language.

#epilepsysurgery #seizures #epilepsy #epilepsyawareness #epilepsysurgery #seizures #epilepsy #IEP #special education #intellectualdisability

***

Our mission is to enhance the lives of children who need neurosurgery to treat their seizures. We do this through our impactful programs, services, and research before, during, and after surgery.

Info + Resources: Our website contains information, downloadable guides, videos, and evidence-based knowledge to help you navigate your child's epilepsy surgery journey.

Parent Support Navigator Program: Our support navigators are trained in evidence-based peer support practices. They speak English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Farsi, Hindi, and Malay Indonesian.

Surgical Evaluation Travel Scholarship: Up to $1,000 in reimbursed travel costs for families who seek an epilepsy surgery evaluation for their child more than 50 miles from home.

School Training: We help school teams understand your child's strengths and challenges after epilepsy surgery.

Facebook: @PESAlliance
Instagram: @pedsepilepsysurgeryalliance
X: @PESAlliance

[SRoseBlog]

working w an 11 year old boy w intellectually disabled. he is at the beginning. he doesn't know letter sounds
I desire greatly for him to be literate and know to count money