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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Functional skills"”.
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New numeracies: the social practice of functional skills and social justice
This thesis explores how creating and performing digital numeracy texts, affords students learning opportunities in Mathematics that demonstrate their numerical social practice. In an environment that celebrates performance before competence, students explore how to design and engineer their …
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Retention of mathematics and reading comprehension skills among Navy Functional Skills Program graduates
… comprehension skill retention of Navy’s 1987 Functional Skills Program graduates over three to twelve month period immediately following training. Two separate studies were conducted. One studied math retention for a course using Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI). The other study …
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Life Skills for Life-Long Learners: Teaching Functional Skills to Elementary Students with Special Needs
… extensive studies exist regarding teaching life skills at the middle school and high school level in special education to support students’ transition to adulthood, a comparable amount of research is still needed to examine the use of life skills-based programs in elementary special education …
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A Study to Determine the Continuing Professional Development Needs of Therapeutic Recreation Specialists Employed in Mental Health Settings
… personnel; (2) To identify and verify the functional skills needed to perform tasks; (3) To determine which skills can be identified as training needs; and (4) To determine if training needs are associated with importance of the skills, agency type, education level, and primary role.
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Pragmatic communication following traumatic brain injury in early childhood
… the impact of TBI on children's cognitive skills, with little exploration of children's higher level functional skills, especially in the language/communication domain. Difficulties in these areas are likely to contribute to persisting social and academic difficulties often associated with …
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An experimental analysis of opportunity and communication response form in a child with autism and hearing impairments.
… pool of high preference items and very few functional skills. Key factors for this child included a structured environment that created a verbal community and contingent access to high preference items. No preference in communication response form was observed. The child successfully used …
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Supporting students with Asperger Syndrome in higher education
… data on the demographics of each group, their skills, their weaknesses, and their experiences within the program. It was found that most of the students were able to either maintain their GPAs or raise their GPAs while participating in the program, and all were exposed to various social skill …
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Leisure involvement and the subjective well-being of young adults with mental retardation
… through improving social communication skills, functional skills, and increasing social support which, in turn, were proposed to affect subjective well-being. Research questions were also addressed on differences suggested in the literature among associations with personal and social …
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Self management of daily life tasks in diploma-track youth with disabilities
… were to: (1) distinguish deficits in discrete skills from challenges organizing skills to self-manage complex tasks associated with adult roles and (2) explore the extent to which challenges in social, cognitive and behavioral factors relate to self-management of daily life tasks. In Study 1, …
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Effectiveness of the Bridge/Adapt Program on Functional Skill Generalization After Acquired Brain Injury
… program for generalizing increased cognition to functional skills. Three participants, identified as having significant cognitive impairments as measured by the Cognistat assessment, participated in the Bridge/Adapt program, an eight-week program that includes both remedial and compensatory …
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Italian immigrant women and literacy : a case study
… interaction, and the acquisition of literacy skills are the fundamental reasons why these women enroll in a literacy program. Several positive effects of the literacy program are noted. These range from an increase in functional skills to an improvement in self-confidence. Communication with …
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An investigation into the use of literacy materials by adult learners : a study of the education programmes in two Cape Town public libraries
… the teaching of writing, reading, calculation skills and developmental and functional skills such as income generation skills. Literacy programmes are supported by both teaching and reading materials that are usually made available in public libraries and literacy classes. The objectives of the …
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Synergy, relatedness, and organization form in the strategic management of diversification
… of relatedness, the strengths of firm-specific skills, and the design of appropriate organization structures. Research hypotheses about synergy, relatedness, and organization form are examined with sample firms randomly selected from the list of Fortune 1000 firms. Additional data covering the …
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Reading Development: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Individuals with High Functioning Autism
… (ASD) by improving their communication and functional skills, and, in the long run, improving their quality of life. Research is needed to gain a better understanding of how individuals with autism experience their reading development from their own perspectives and the perspectives of their …
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Neuropsychological subgroups of dementia of the Alzheimer's type
… characterized by dramatically poorer language skills. Mean ages of the DAT groups was similar so that age alone did not appear to contribute to cluster differences. Moreover, information regarding time since onset of symptoms did not suggest that poorer performance was merely a function of the …
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A reflexive study of students with severe learning disabilities in further education
… work linked to the ability to perform a set of functional skills. Whilst inclusion in the workplace for people with severe learning disabilities is dependent on a normalised set of skills and behaviours and moreover, that these can be learned through behaviourist principles, this inclusion will …
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What is it like for you?: a phenomenological study: teaching adult literacy in a further education college under the auspices of the Adult Literacy Core Curriculum
… in its defining of adult literacy as a set of functional skills within a socio-economic context, and that its use galvanized the humanism of co-researchers and their sense of moral obligation. It further found that the ALCC became what unified the co-researchers professionally and instigated a …
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Assessment of ELL Written Language Progress in Designated ESL Noncredit Courses at the Community College Level
… of the effect of targeted instruction of functional language skills for English language learners (ELL) enrolled in community college basic skills classes is important as community colleges continue to offer noncredit courses for ELL students designed to improve English skills. The …
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The Social Competence of Preschool Children's Response to Conflict and Peer Acceptance in a Mainstreamed Classroom
… to increase peer interaction by using social skills training to improve children's peer acceptance. One of the critical social skills relating to peer acceptance may be the way children manage social conflict situations. The present study investigated the relationship between peer acceptance …
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Self-efficacy in depression: Bridging the gap between competence and real-world functioning
… and symptom remission does not always result in functional improvement. Comprehensive analysis of functioning requires investigation both of the competence to perform behaviours, as well as actual performance in the real world. Further, two independent domains of functioning have been proposed: …
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