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Showing 1 to 20 of 576 for “"Life Experiences"”.
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Adults with Autism Speak Out: Perceptions of Their Life Experiences
… high functioning adults with autism about their life experiences. After a review of the literature, I determined that there is a lack of information regarding adults with autism, especially those at the high end of the spectrum. There is a great deal of information regarding the educational needs …
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The Effects of Women's Health and Life Experiences on Surgical Intervention
… and types of surgical interventions over the life course.</p><p> A triangulated study using quantitative and qualitative approaches was designed. The cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted through use of a survey of 156 women who were scheduled for elective surgery. The qualitative …
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Environmental tendencies and significant life experiences of municipal sustainability coordinators in Canada
… environmental tendencies, and significant life experiences of 91 Sustainability Coordinators employed by municipalities across Canada. The intent of this research was to find a common set of activities that may have motivated these individuals, and may motivate others, to take on roles and …
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Life Experiences of Street Children in Bulawayo: Implications for Policy and Practice
… negotiation or imposition by others. Their experiences are presented in their words in order to capture who they are and how they navigate living on the margins of society; crossing physical as well as social and moral boundaries. The study employed an ethnographic approach and was informed …
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Predicting Views of Sex Offenders and Sex Offender Policies Through Life Experiences.
… on these social policies by examining aspects of life experience due to Techniques of Neutralization and Labeling theories. Reliability and Factor analyses were used to create factor-based indices to predict views on social policies, specifically views on sex offender registries and community …
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The impact of life experiences on the expression of compassionate action in volunteers
… study considers the connection between life experience and compassion by conducting two virtual circle processes with volunteers located in Williams Lake, British Columbia. A network selection strategy was used to gather 10 participants, resulting in two circles with five volunteers …
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Exploring the value of adverse life experiences of social service and support workers
… health and social services have had more adverse experiences than the general population and that these experiences may have in part formed their vocational motivation. This is an area of little research in Aotearoa that I believed worthy of exploration given that I have worked in the sector for …
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Scents and scent-sibilities: A sociocultural inquiry of smells in everyday life experiences
Here, smells take on a social character. Scents influence how we think, act and behave. The study argues for smell as a social intermediary that fleshes out issues concerning personhood and the presentation of self, and smells as employed in the (re)constructions of social boundaries running along …
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Chimpanzee Early Life Experiences and Responses to Caregiver Use of Species-Specific Behavior
… primate behavior can be influenced by early life experiences, such as rearing history and prevalence of human and conspecific interaction partners. The current study aimed to expand on previous research comparing chimpanzee responses between a CB and HB condition and to determine the …
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A phenomenological approach to profiling the life experiences of the Kayayoo in Ghana
… out on the richness and texture of the Kayayoo's life, which means that programs and policy interventions that use them are not as effective as they could be in reaching the Kayayoo's needs. This phenomenological study revealed that there is likely no need to continue trying to conduct a census of …
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The Everyday Life Experiences of Three to Six-Year-Old Children with Comforting Possessions
… provide to the child may be shaped by personal experiences in childhood with such possessions. The second pattern suggested that children develop highly ritualized ways of handling and placing the comforting possession during use. The third pattern suggested that the children's varied use of the …
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The effects of stressful life experiences and maladaptive daydreaming on selective attention among young adults
Adverse childhood (ACEs) and adult (AAEs) experiences have been connected to negative psychological and physical consequences. ACEs have been associated with maladaptive daydreaming (MD) and impairments in selective attention (SA). Less is known about AAEs on selective attention and MD in adults. …
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Exploratory study of the administrative work life experiences of selected visible minority female school principals
… known for its multicultural practices, the work life experiences of visible minority female school principals are unheard and absent from educational leadership research in Canada. In light of the fact that the student population in Canadian schools is increasingly diversifying, it is important …
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Different Challenges and Different Blessings: Life Experiences of Young Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome
<p>Life experiences of young mothers of preschool aged children with Down syndrome were explored in this qualitative narrative study. Intensive interviews of four purposefully chosen young women were conducted. The findings of this study illustrate the impact of a preschool aged child with Down …
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Different Challenges and Different Blessings: Life Experiences of Young Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome
<p>Life experiences of young mothers of preschool aged children with Down syndrome were explored in this qualitative narrative study. Intensive interviews of four purposefully chosen young women were conducted. The findings of this study illustrate the impact of a preschool aged child with Down …
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Analysis of fifty supplementary readers to determine the real life experiences necessary for meaningful beginning reading.
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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