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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"developmentally delayed"”.
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Facilitating communication in a developmentally delayed child
… facilitate the communicative capabilities of a developmentally delayed child. Specifically, the target goal was to have the student mand (request) the word "juice." Aspects of four intervention techniques were implemented. The four techniques included; Easy Does it for Articulation : An Oral …
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Assessment of Resident and Staff Activity in a State Residential Setting
… procedures in a residential facility for developmentally delayed adults. The procedure was further evaluated for sensitivity to changes relative to an intervention designed to increase staff and client interaction. A multiple baseline design was used to assess a data collection procedure …
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Gamma oscillatory activity in autism spectrum disorder during a face cueing task
… gaze to a stimulus. This skill is absent or developmentally delayed in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), causing cascading effects on development. Neural synchrony in the gamma frequency band is thought to be involved in cognitive functions such as joint attention. The current study …
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The effect of postpartum depression on child cognitive development
… of the lack of research with the special needs/developmentally delayed population in reference to Postpartum Depression.
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A longitudinal study on the effectiveness of preschool special education
… School Aide (ASSA) reports of 342 disabled or developmentally delayed children between 3 and 5 years of age who participated in Evesham Township's Preschool Disabled Program between 1990 and 2001. Data from this study was also used to re-evaluate the preschool curriculum, policies and …
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The Functional Relation Between the Onset of Naming and the Joining of Listener to Untaught Speaker Responses
In Experiment I, the experimenter selected 13 developmentally delayed preschool students without Naming to test for speaker and listener vocabularies. This affirmed the independence of speaker and listener vocabularies, as evidenced by a significantly larger listener vocabulary than speaker …
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Training Emotion Recognition Skills In Children On The Autism Spectrum Using Derived Relational Responding
… behaviors in both typically developing and developmentally delayed populations (Healy, Barnes-Holmes, & Smeets, 2000; Rehfeldt & Barnes-Holmes, 2009). The present study was designed to obtain preliminary data on the effectiveness of emotion recognition training that includes derived …
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The Effects of the Social Listener Reinforcement Protocol on the Audience Control of Stereotypy and Social Operants for Students with Developmental Delays
… of audience control, Experiment 2 identified developmentally delayed nursery school students in an integrated setting and tested the effects of the social listener reinforcement protocol (Reilly-Lawson & Walsh, 2007) on the audience control of social vocal operants. All participants had …
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Molecular mechanisms of radial axonal growth : insights from analysis of neurofilament gene-targeted mice
… of axons prior to proximal axon regions due to delayed expression of NFH. NF-H expression was developmentally delayed to allow distal axon segments prior to proximal segments which may have been beneficial for long-term maintenance of axonal diameter. Sequencing analysis of the NF-M across …
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The initial reliability and construct validity of the Autism Spectrum Disorder-Diagnostic (ASD-DC) in children
… 2 and 16 years, who are typically developing or developmentally delayed. Participants were asked to complete several rating scales including the ASD-DC, a DSM-IV-TR/ICD-10 checklist, the Matson Evaluation of Social Skills in Youngsters (MESSY), and the Behavioral Assessment System for Children, …
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Speech/Language and Social Behavior Performance as Predictors of Literacy Acquisition in Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects
… study were the following:</p><ol><li>Evidence of developmentally delayed speech/language functions and social behavior performance relates highly with literacy acquisition in children with FAS/FAE.</li><li>Expressive and receptive speech/language functions are expected to be the most critical …
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The Effects of Imitation Instruction Using a Mirror on the Emergence of Duplicative Responses by Preschool Students Diagnosed with Developmental Delays
… of using a mirror to induce GI with 4 young developmentally delayed preschoolers. The dependent variable was the number of untaught, unconsequated basic physical imitative responses (e.g., nodding head) emitted by participants prior to and following intervention conditions while directly …
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Stress and Anxiety in ADHD: Links to sensory over-responsivity
… been correlated with stress and anxiety in some developmentally delayed populations and has been associated with structures and functions of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis. Recent attention has been given to HPA functioning in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder …
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Neurodevelopmental outcome of the high risk infant in Cape Town
… diagnosed as cerebral palsied, six were globally developmentally delayed without signs of cerebral palsy and one infant showed significant motor delay with a normal developmental quotient. At two years of age one further infant had cerebral palsy and nine more infants were developmentally delayed. …
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Return of a Fragile X Syndrome Genetic Result: Exploring the feedback of Individual genetic findings and their relation to traditional knowledge in a village in Cameroon
… with a family history of FXS and taking care of developmentally delayed children. Lastly, in this community, we identified public stigma directed towards the royal family and courtesy stigma experienced by the royal family members. Most interviewees believed that people from the royal family …