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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Latino Parents"”.
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Understanding Service Utilization Disparities and Depression in Latino Parents and Children: The Role of Fatalismo
… and utilization of mental health services for Latino adults and children. The adapted Health Beliefs Model (Henshaw & Freedman-Doan, 2009) provides a useful framework for conceptualizing the roles of perceived severity and therapy expectations in the relation between demographic variables and …
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Factors that Influence the Participation of Immigrant Latino Parents in the Special Education Process of their Children with Disabilities
… Education Act emphasized the importance of parents’ participation in all educational decisions concerning their children with disabilities. However, parents’ ability to actively participate in, and contribute to, their children’s special education process is influenced by a variety of parent …
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Latino parents' perceptions of, and response to, child Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder: An ecological perspective
… and behavior problems occur at high rates among Latino children in the United States; however, Latino children are less likely than children from other racial/ethnic groups to receive treatment for these problems. Efforts to understand and address these disparities should include research to …
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Involving Latino Parents in the Middle-Level School: A Study of First-Generation and Second-Generation Mexican and Mexican-American Parents
… as students who are unmotivated and who have parents that are unresponsive to their growth and development in terms of educational attainment. However, this conception of poor academic achievement and lack of parental involvement is unfounded since research indicates that culturally diverse …
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Perceptions of Bilingualism and Home Language Maintenance and Loss: A Study of Latino Parents at a San Francisco Bay Area Elementary Charter School
… the relationship between first generation Latino parent perspectives of bilingualism, home language maintenance and loss, and the intersection of culture and identity in an elementary school community. It also investigates how parents create an additive bilingual environment in the …
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Latino Parental Acceptability towards the Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine
… Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination among Latino parents. The role that acculturation may play in Latino parents' acceptability of the vaccine was also examined. A survey conceptualized using the Health Belief Model and two acculturation measures were administered to participants (N = 130). …
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Latino Families and Parental Involvement: A Case Study of Home Literature Conversations in a Primary Bilingual Classroom
… describes and interprets the dialogue between Latino parents and their children during home literature conversations. The participating students were enrolled in my first and second grade classroom in East Los Angeles, California. I was guided by the following research questions in this …
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No Mas Excusas: Parent Latino Initiative
<p>Immigrant Latino parents are invested in their children and have an authentic interest in assisting their children to acquire an education and to succeed in school, but many parents face socioeconomic, language, and cultural barriers. This qualitative study looked at a group of immigrant Latino …
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Middle-Income Latinos in Middle-Class Communities: A Study on Parental Involvement Dynamics
<p>The academic underperformance of students of Latino backgrounds is a serious cause for concern in the United States, especially considering the significant portion of the total U.S. population that Latinos constitute. Since parental involvement is known as a powerful resource in helping all …
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“Pa’ tra’ ni pa’ coger impulso”: parental influences on the education journey of low-income Latino males who “made it” to a four-year university
Latino males from low-income backgrounds have one of the highest high school dropout rates and lowest college enrollment and graduation rates in the United States. Like many disadvantaged students, low-income Latino males face multi-systemic obstacles that limit them from realizing their full …
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Latino Immigrant Parents of English Language Learner Students, School Involvement and the Participation Breach
… this study was the minimal school involvement by Latino immigrant parents due to the hegemonic practices, cultural misunderstandings and deficit-thinking models adopted by school personnel. The purpose of this Participatory Action Research (PAR) was to investigate the perceptions and benefits of …
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Parental Involvement Strategies Implemented by Selected Virginia School Districts
This descriptive study explored Latino parental involvement strategies implemented in selected Virginia school districts. Randomly selected teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools whose student population is 10% or greater Latino were surveyed. Exploratory data analysis was utilized to …
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How Spanish -speaking parents understand kindergarten and support their children's education within the context of a school
… year to understand how individual agency of parents, access to a community's practices and events, and the resulting interrelationship, shape parent understanding of and participation in school practices and events and ultimately impact student achievement outcomes. In a nation that is …
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Authentic parent engagement : a case study of moving from discourse to authentic praxis in a Midwestern school district
… a variety of people and organizations--such as parents, citizens, and social agencies." The purpose of this study was to examine the engagement of African American and Latino parents in a Midwestern school district during a major restructuring process. The qualitative case study sought to enrich …
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PARENTING AND STUDENTS' GPA IN THE LATINO POPULATION: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
<p>The present study experimentally investigated Latino high school students’ grade point averages (GPA) and the parenting styles used by their parents based on Baumrind’s (1968, 1971, 1989, 1991) theory of parenting behaviors. Participants (N=52) were asked to take a survey of 62 questions total …
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Parents' Perceptions of Teenage Pregnancy
<p>The purpose of this study is to shed light on Latino/a parents' perceptions and attitudes about adolescent pregnancy. This study aims to reveal how parental perceptions and attitudes may impact parental communication with their children about teen pregnancy. Considering that parents play in …
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Parental Factors Impacting Neurobehavioral Late Effects in Latino Pediatric Cancer Survivors
… factors on neurological late effects in Latino pediatric CNS cancer survivors. SEM was used to explore the hypothesis that higher parental knowledge, self-efficacy, pro-learning behaviors, and level of acculturation would have an impact on child neurocognitive function and health related …
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