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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Transition Issues"”.
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Transition Issues in Educational Audiology
… children with hearing loss still face a host of issues throughout the educational process, particularly during transitional periods. This literature review examines the existing research discussing these issues, including transitions from childhood to adolescence, high school to college, and …
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Transition of Health Care For Adolescent Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type I: Parent Perspectives
<p>Transition is a critical time for adolescents and young adults living with a genetic disorder. During this time, an adolescent faces the demands of having to gain a more complete understanding of his or her disorder and its clinical features, learning how to effectively manage his or her medical …
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More than just a number: student and educator perceptions about the transition to ninth grade
<p>The transition to ninth grade can be a difficult time for adolescents. New students confront the unknown on the first day, and their anxieties combine with new surroundings, teachers, and older students, to make for a stressful experience (Benner & Graham, 2009). Some students enter high school …
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Evaluation of the College Bound Summer Program for High School Students with Disabilities
… students with disabilities may lack adequate transition planning in high school that may explain why these students often experience poor outcomes in higher education. The College Bound Summer Program was developed in 1999 as a supplement program within the state of Virginia to address …
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Educational Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Perceptions of Parents and Teachers in a Northeast Tennessee School System.
… teacher attitudes; problematic parent attitudes; transition issues; and need for additional services. Parents and teachers described factors that facilitate positive parent-teacher relationships including collaboration, teamwork, and support; on-going communication; IEP Team processes; and …
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Hispanic immigrant students
… students has concentrated on curriculum issues and second-language acquisition. Little is known about the personal experiences of immigrant students and their difficulties prior to and after arriving in this country. If these experiences are traumatic in nature, they can easily influence …
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An Existential Perspective on the Role of Human Agency in the Retraining of Immigrant Skilled Workers in Canada
… was to provide a deeper understanding of the transition issues, retraining decision-making process, retraining experiences and outcomes, and coping strategies of the immigrant professionals to uncover the role of human agency in dealing with the existential givens of their Canadian career …
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Ghanaian diasporic migrant students: challenges, culture and capitals
… and researched in various disciplines, issues related to child migration are often neglected or subsumed under discussions regarding adult migration. This study shows children as agents whose experiences form distinctive migration and acculturation narratives. Utilising Bourdieu’s (1977) …
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Minority Students' Transition Experiences at a Predominantly White Institution
The process of transition to college is complex and has received attention from many scholars (e. g. Baker & Siryk, 1999; Beal & Noel, 1980; Choy, Horn, Nunez, & Chen, 2000; Gaither, 1999; Paul & Brier, 2001; Tinto, 1993). Transition impacts persistence in college, hence retention rates (Tinto, …
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Literacy At Transition : An Exploration Of The Continuities And Discontinuities In Literacy Practices Across Secondary Transfer And Their Implications For Literacy Development
<b>Literacy at Transition</b>, an interpretative study adopting the sociocultural perspective of literacy as a situated social practice, offers an “experiential” (Murdoch, 1986) examination of commonalities and differences in cross-phase literacy practices. Designed as a small ethnographic case …
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Towards “just” energy transitions in unequal societies: an actor-centric analysis of South Africa's evolving electricity sector
… the synonymous pathway towards a global energy transition. Through enhanced national climate action plans, countries worldwide are formulating development pathways that are aligned to a carbon-neutral and net-zero emissions global economy. The recent IPCC Sixth Assessment report confirmed, once …
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Is Anybody Listening? How Can Young People with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties influence their own Post School Transition Process?
… Difficulties influence their own post-school transition process? Susan Chesworth – candidate for EdD ABSTRACT This research project arose from my experience as head teacher of a special school. I observed that young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) did not have an …
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Freshman Academies: A Study of Student Outcomes.
<p>The transition to high school has been identified by researchers as a pivotal point in students' lives. The addition of a Freshman Academy in some schools has targeted the 9th grade year to ease students' transition to high school and increase the likelihood of academic success.</p><p>One …
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Student Outcomes and the Implementation of a Ninth Grade Academy in a Western North Carolina High School.
<p>One purpose of this study was to compare outcomes of students who were part of a 9<sup>th</sup> grade academy during their freshman year with outcomes of students who were not part of a 9<sup>th</sup> grade academy during their freshman year. Student outcomes are defined for this study to …