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Showing 1 to 20 of 190 for “"Disabled Children"”.
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The Adoption of Disabled Children
… that contribute towards the decision to adopt a disabled child. Increased knowledge about placing disabled children for adoption is particularly important as they are regarded as the category hardest to place (Adoption Register 2009). Despite the wide gaps in knowledge, the negativity associated …
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Teaching developmentally disabled children to play by themselves
… procedure designed to teach developmentally disabled children to play by themselves was examined. In addition, the influence of the frequency of probing was investigated. Baseline data showed low levels of self-amusement. The generalization training procedure produced moderate increases in …
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The Right to Support: Severely Disabled Children & Their Mothers
The author examines how severely disabled children and their mothers, who are usually their primary caregivers, are treated by Canadian law and policy. She identifies and analyzes deficiencies in care and other supports the state makes available to them. She further provides an analysis of the role …
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An investigation into the families of physically disabled children
This study investigated families of physically disabled children. Birth has always been anticipated with great excitement and high expectations for the future. But the discovery that the child has a disability changes everything. The family into which this disabled child is born undergoes major …
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The Useful Field of View of Reading Disabled Children
<p>Recent research suggests that some reading disabled children process visual information differently due to a transient system or magnocellular pathway deficit. In light of this hypothesis, the present study represents an investigation of the visual processing abilities of both good and poor …
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Event description by two subtypes of learning disabled children
… subtypes of nine to thirteen year old learning disabled children (math and generally disabled) was examined. Children viewed a narrative or a puppet show, then were asked to either describe of enact what had happened. Generally disabled children enacted the events as accurately as nondisabled …
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Expressed Emotion In Parents Of Behaviourally Disturbed Learning Disabled Children
… disturbance for families with learning disabled children, no published study has specifically investigated the relationship between parental EE and child behavioural disturbance. The current study focused on a comparison of high and low EE households with regards to child behavioural …
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Design guidelines for small community-based residential facilities for disabled children
… small community-based residential facilities for disabled children. Each of the major issues which are relevant to these types of facilities were looked at in some detail. These issues were therapeutic environments in general, small residential facilities, community-based facilities, and disabled …
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The empowering social services for the assitance for families with disabled children /
… services actualize the families growing children with disability? How empowering social services come out when assisting families growing children with disability on individual, sectional, communal and political levels from different perspectives (families and social workers)? Research …
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FUNCTIONS UNDERLYING PERFORMANCE OF LEARNING-DISABLED CHILDREN IN INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS.
… Neuropsychological Battery with a learning disabled population. Scores of 42 children, 38 males, 4 females, ages 6.2 to 8.8 years were compiled on specific tests of the Reitan-Indiana. Principal component factoring of the original correlation matrix was followed by principal factoring, using …
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Vigilance and skin conductance characteristics in a population of reading disabled children
Dyslexic children are probably not a homogeneous group in terms of important characteristics assumed to be involved in reading; disability since underlying causes may vary widely. Such characteristics as arousal and performance on a vigilance task would differ not only from a control group, but …
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The use of reaction time to assess cognitive functioning of learning disabled children
Fifteen children (mean age 10 years) who were defined as learning disabled (LD) by school authorities and were enrolled in special LD classrooms were matched with 15 children from regular school classrooms on the basis of sex, chronological age, and mental age. Each child performed individually in …
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Parenting Stress: A Comparison of Mothers and Fathers of Disabled and Non-Disabled Children
… parenting stress between mothers and fathers of children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), children with developmental disabilities, and normally developing children. The relationship of certain demographic variables, such as Socio-economic Status (SES), number of children, …
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COMPARISON OF MELODIC AND VERBAL PRESENTATION MODES ON AUDITORY SERIAL LEARNING BY LEARNING DISABLED CHILDREN
… devices on the learning patterns of learning disabled children. A total of 33 fifth and sixth grade learning disabled students from seven self-contained special education classes participated in the study with the written permission of parents or gaurdians. Subjects were assigned randomly to …
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