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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Low-functioning"”.
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Using an iPad to teach spontaneous communication of students with low-functioning autism
… of using the Apple iPad to assist students with low functioning autism in learning communication skills. Three non-verbal students identified as having autism and being low-functioning participated in the study. A multiple baseline design with AB phases across academic and social settings was …
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Symbolic Understanding of Pictures in Low-functioning Children with Autism and Typically Developing Children.
This thesis investigates how low-functioning children with autism and language-matched typically developing children comprehend symbolic relations between pictures, words and the objects they represent. Using a series of cognitive-behavioural paradigms, this research documents how these …
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Teaching Facial Emotion Recognition to Low-Functioning 4-7 Year Old Students with Autism
… Previous studies focused on older, high-functioning individuals with ASD whereas this one focused on younger,</p> <p>low-functioning individuals with ASD. This study has identified several notable cautions that should be considered prior to the start of any additional formal research.</p>
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Effect of a Classwide Peer-Mediated Intervention on the Social Interactions of Students with Low-Functioning Autism and the Perceptions of Typical Peers
… of the disorder, such that students with low-functioning autism require significantly more support to successfully participate in peer interactions than students with high functioning autism. This study used mixed methodology to examine the effects of a classwide peer-mediated intervention …
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Video Game Addiction And Motivation In Emerging Adults: A Person-Centered Approach
… clusters of individuals representing a High Functioning/High Gaming group, A Low Functioning/Moderate Gaming group, and a High Functioning/Low Gaming group. For motivation it was found that participants who derived satisfaction of higher order needs from video game play had an increased …
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Using video modeling to teach complex play sequences to children with autism.
… to other settings for children with low-functioning autism/ developmental disabilities. A multiple baseline across 3 play sequences was implemented with 3 males. Results indicate that 2 acquired vocal and motor responses and 1 acquired imitative noises and motor responses using video …
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Social Experiences of Young Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: Toward an Understanding of Communication
… language needs. Their needs highlighted and allowed critique of the research methods that I have learned, bringing up important ethical and pedagogical issues regarding difference and (dis)ability in research and research populations. I asked them what they thought about and wanted from their …
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Unexamined Youth of the Juvenile Justice System: An Examination of the Prevalence of Unspecified Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorder Diagnosis
… the analyses presented here, into three classes: low-functioning, high-functioning, and internalizing classes. The statistical analyses used for aim 3 did not produce a result using the current data set due to technical difficulties. The implications of the current findings are discussed.
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Survey of Skills for Blissymbol Use : A Pilot Study
… subjects. These subjects were rated from high to low functioning in Blissymbol knowledge and usage by the speech language pathologists and were chosen subject to availability.</p> <p>It was determined to be beyond the scope of the present study to pretest the revised evaluative questionnaire which …
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The Game Of Chess: A Conduit To Increase Student Academic Achievement In Pinellas County: A Policy Advocacy Document
… improve cognitive abilities among educationally low-functioning students, and it has been shown to help students academically when traditional methods have failed to produce the desired outcome. Most people think of chess as a game, and I think the time has come for educators to think about chess …
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The effect of management instability on air line pilots and their families: an overview of sources, mediators, and symptoms of stress
… pilot families across carriers were found to be low functioning families. The results of the study document the importance of unstable airline working conditions as an explanatory variable in examining pilot stress. It is suggested that understanding the pilot stress process depends on the …
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An Evaluation of Mental Health and Methadone: Anxiety, Depression, and Drug Use
… This included adding medication therapy for low functioning clients with severe symptoms of anxiety or depression to improve overall outcomes. The paper also looked into more holistic treatments for clients who are more fragile with less severe psychiatric symptoms and would prefer to …
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Identification of Latent Subgroups of Obese Adolescents Enrolled in a Healthy Weight Management Program
… (physical-, emotional-, social-, and school functioning) and the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Scale. A 3-class solution was parsimonious and demonstrated the best statistical fit (Bayesian information criterion = 10596.96; Lo-Mendell-Rubin-adjusted likelihood ratio test = 73.020, p < .05). The 3 …
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A Comparative Study of Working Memory in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
… provided conflicting reports with regards to the functioning of the various components of working memory in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, and in particular in those with autism. This research was initiated to answer some of the questions raised by these research studies and to …
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An investigation of discrepancies in interpersonal perceptions and expectations between parents of low and high functioning children
… of the parental relationship and the level of functioning of their children. The discrepancies between role perception and role expectation within the parental relationship were selected as the major focus of this study. The principal hypothesis stated that parents of high functioning children …
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Investigating sharing skills in children with autism spectrum conditions through participatory research
… work in this area is typically with higher-functioning individuals with Asperger Syndrome or educated in a mainstream schooling environment. Limited work has been conducted with lower functioning individuals with additional learning disabilities. There is also a lack of interventions that …
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The Well-Being and Self-Regulation Capacity of Physicians
… thus studies addressing physicians' positive functioning are limited. The purpose of this two-phase, mixed methods study was to investigate the well-being and self-regulation capacity of physicians using a positive psychology lens. In Phase 1, 132 physicians (n = 40 physicians; n = 92 resident …
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Executive dysfunction and weak central coherence : neither theory suitably explains a core cognitive deficit in autism spectrum disorders
… way of processing information that allows individuals to focus on and remember minutiae) and executive dysfunction (EF dysfunction; an inability to employ goal-directed cognition to plan, organize, and alternate between tasks, or to inhibit incorrect responses) largely dominate current …
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Theatrical bodies and madness: a case study of a theatre playground in a South African forensic psychiatric hospital
… in the group was voluntary and constructed to allow involvement in theatrical play on its own terms, set apart from the therapeutic and rehabilitation agendas that govern the institution. By means of a conceptually-driven critical analysis of the empirical practice, the study explores the ethical …
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