Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"minority children"”.
-
Central auditory processing disorders in minority children
… syndrome which affects the lives of adults and children in profound ways. CAPD is often diagnosed in children who experience educational distress despite intact hearing and cognitive ability. The benefit of early diagnosis of CAPD is in the potential for implementation of an intervention program …
-
A smiling future: exploring the multidisciplinary associations with higher prevalence of tooth decay in minority children
… living in food deserts, it is no wonder why the children who living in these areas are consuming more processed foods. Processed foods and lack of proportional diet can have an adverse effect on the oral health of children and adults leading to tooth decay. Early Childhood Caries (ECC) is the …
-
The Task Variable in Children's Language Use: Cultural and Situational Differences
… widespread educational failure of lower-class minority children. The belief is that the way language is used in the home systematically places minority children at a disadvantage at school. This study represents an attempt to test this hypothesis.
-
Academic Bias Towards Minority Women
… very little research has been done surrounding minority females academic success; these gaps have been compensated with information about how these issues plague women in general. It is the researchers understanding that if an issue or circumstance within education affects white female students …
-
Application of the relational model of therapy in cross cultural counseling with children
… the clinical setting. Subjects were two ethnic minority children, a Hispanic boy, age nine, and a mixed-race boy, age 10, who was adopted by an African American family.
-
Application of the relational model of therapy in cross cultural counseling with children
… the clinical setting. Subjects were two ethnic minority children, a Hispanic boy, age nine, and a mixed-race boy, age 10, who was adopted by an African American family.
-
Blinded by the White: Soul-Searching for the Pedagogical Possibilities of Otherness in the White Hearts of Parents Raising Children of Color
… possibilities in this study as the potential for minority children to prevail in the aspects of life that have been hindered by those who are white. My own personal whiteness is explored as a mother and an educator. Additional exploration in this study comes from the voices and experiences of …
-
FIRST GRADERS AS SENSITIVE SOCIAL PARTNERS AND SKILLED READERS
… contribute to early literacy scholarship about minority children. In particular, I explore the relationship between low socioeconomic status Puerto Rican children’s reading experience and their social cognition by: (1) assessing them through quantitative and qualitative measures that reveal …
-
The Association between Callous-Unemotional Traits and Emotional Processing Within Individuals and Across Generations
… examined emotional processing in fifty community children, each with one parent, using the emotional pictures dot-probe task, which is a computerized task measuring attention to emotional pictures in the form of a facilitation score. The relationship between emotional processing, CU traits, and …
-
The Effect of Risk Assessment on Racial Disproportionality in the Child Welfare System
Minority children are involved in the child welfare system at rates disproportionate to their numbers in the overall population. Prior research argues that risk assessments conducted by child welfare agencies may be racially biased, and thus contribute to disproportionality. This study seeks to …
-
Improving teaching practice through education, mind, and selected brain research
… and many students, particularly low-income and minority children and youth, are failing to reach their academic potential. The texts submitted with this document (Conyers & Wilson, 2015a, 2016; Wilson & Conyers, 2013b, 2013c) were written as a means of bridging this gap by applying two original …
-
Differences across racial groups in caregiver ratings of symptoms in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders
… groups in caregiver ratings of symptoms of children diagnosed with ASDs. Results from such research will help determine whether cultural background can influence the recognition of behaviors indicative of an ASD. Culturally-sensitive clinical practice stemming from the significant findings …
-
Childhood feeding practices in African Americans
… study was to explore the feeding practices of minority children specifically looking at African Americans from birth to 11 years old to see if there are any red flags so that professionals can be alerted for a concern with obesity. Previous research conducted on feeding styles and patterns of …
-
Leadership Practices That Enhance Reading Achievement For African American Males: A Case Study
… a lack of appropriate educational resources for minority children and the achievement scores of African American males. The findings also indicate that the school that employed the highest percentage of diversity practices also had the highest standardized score on (PACT). Therefore, the results …
-
The developmental progression of cognitive-linguistic skills in emergent bilingual children
… development in monolingual, English speaking children, very little research has been conducted regarding the problems encountered by children learning English as an additional language (EAL). Recent political and educational concerns have been the educational under-achievement of minority …
-
The Impact of Race-Related Social Experiences on Black Fathers' Ethnic-Racial Socialization of their Children
… the meaning of race and ethnicity, teach their children what it means to be an ethnic/racial minority and equip their children with the skills to cope with racial discrimination (Neblett, Cooper, Banks, et. al, 2013). This process includes culture specific messages, artifacts and modeled …
-
The Impact of Depressive Symptomatology on the Efficacy of a Weight Loss Intervention Program in African-American Children and Adolescents
… within certain racial or ethnic groups, minority children and adolescents, or youth living within low-income neighborhoods, are at a particularly high risk for the disease. Current research denotes a relationship between obesity and psychopathology, even though the directionality and the …
-
In Search of Resilience and Positive Health Outcomes in Low-Income Adolescents with Asthma
… 24.6 million Americans, including 7.0 million children. In particular, 22% of high school students indicated a doctor or a nurse had told them that they had asthma, with 10.8% with current asthma. The disease disproportionately afflicts minority children from low-income areas. Adolescents with …
-
Managing linguistic and cultural diversity in Merseyside's primary schools : theory, policy and practice
Throughout the English-speaking world, minority language children (LMC) or children who speak English as an additional language (EAL) are being educated in mainstream classrooms where they have little or no opportunity to use their mother tongue. This study investigates how educators at primary …
-
The Implications of Parental and Child Smartphone Use on Parent-Child and Family Relationships: a Case-Study of the Turkish-Speaking Community in London
… It also explores the role of smartphones in children’s contact with distant family members and the implications of smartphones for children’s learning, health and entertainment. In exploring all these, this thesis aims to contribute to the literature on digital device use and its various …
Page 1 of 2