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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"parent support"”.
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Exploring factors that inhibit the Outlook Parent Support Group from achieving their stated goals
… factors that hindered the women of the Outlook Parent Support Group from achieving their stated goals. The literature review discusses the relationship between poverty and disability and its impact on the identity and occupations of carers of disabled children. Furthermore it explores self-help …
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Towards developing a parent support programme for single parents who have children in need of care
… exploring the feelings and experiences of single parents whose children were found in need of care. A qualititative approach was used, with data being gathered from focus group sessions and semi-structured interviews. Some of the majory findings focussed on the needs of single parents as well as …
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Parent-to-Parent Support for Parents of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: A Conceptual Framework
Background: Parent-to-parent support for parents with children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) is identified as an important component of early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programs for children with hearing loss. Purpose: The specific aim of this review was to identify the …
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Assessing the needs of parents of "at-risk" children in residential care : towards the development of a parent support programme
… and assess the present level of functioning of parents of"at-risk" children in residential care. An exploratory study was conducted at a non-profit welfare organisation, a residential institution in Athlone. The importance of the study was an attempt to make a contribution to the understanding …
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An Examination Of The Relationship Among Iraqi High School Students' Science Achievement And Perceptions Of The Value Of Education, Parent Support, And Peer Support In The United States
… perception of the value of education, the parental support, and the peer support, were examined using the Facilitating Conditions Questionnaire. The three subscales were part of a larger self-administered questionnaire used by McInerney (1997). In addition to the FCQ survey, a student …
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Exploratory Study of Manualized Parent Training with Parental Support for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) present for therapeutic services with two essential needs: training on behavioral strategies specific to children with ASD and support for parental stress. Training parents as agents of behavior change increases intervention exposure …
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Applying social cognitive career theory to college science majors
… such as learning experiences, aptitude, and parent support. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to assess model fit for the whole sample as well as men and women separately. Results indicated that social cognitive career theory was a good fit for the data with some exceptions; it was …
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The Goals and Expectations of Parents and Teachers: A Comparison of Two Schools
… of a gap between the goals and expectations of parents and those of teachers in the middle school classroom. The study went further to examine if affluence of the parent community determined the existence or absence of this gap. Different works over the past two decades which have touched on the …
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Relating children in foster care to school bullying
… descriptive information by attending foster parent support group meetings in New Jersey. Resource parents reported on behalf of the foster child in their care at that time. Participants were asked to report information within the current school year. Data showed that children in foster care …
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Back to School, Back to Normal? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Childhood Cancer Survivors and their Families Throughout the School Re-Entry Process
This study investigated parent and child perspectives of childhood cancer survivors' return to school. Four specific areas were examined including cognitive and academic concerns, social issues, perceived support, and the impact on siblings. Participants consisted of parents and childhood cancer …
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An exploration of the perceptions of caregivers regarding the psychosocial support needs of hearing impaired children: A case study of the Usko Nghaamwa Special School in the Ohangwena region, Namibia.
… of caregivers regarding the psychosocial support of hearing impaired children at the Usko Nghaamwa Special School in the Ohangwena region of Namibia. Data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews by means of audio recordings and field notes. Five teachers and five parents were …
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Parenting the Gifted: Caregivers’ Perspectives of Challenges and their Confidence to Support their Exceptional Children
… (1977) to examine the lived experiences of eight parents of gifted children and how their experiences, both positive and negative, shape their perception of their confidence and may contribute to building future supports for gifted parents and caregivers. Qualitative data, collected through …
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The Effects of Family, School and Peer Support on the Achievement Outcomes of African American Adolescents
… the relationship between protective influences (support from parents, teachers and peers, social capital assets, and social support use), contextual risks, and two achievement outcomes in a representative sample of male and female African American high school seniors (N=317). Responses to two …
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Understanding the experience of teenage parents: An empirical examination of attitudes and expectations among education professionals
… health, and socioeconomic hardship. Social support is one factor that moderates these outcomes. This study employed the use of written vignettes to examine differences in expectations for success (educational, economic, and psychological) that educational professionals have for teenage …
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Use of Online Support Groups by Parents of Students with Special Needs
… of this study is to analyze the use of online support groups by parents of students with special needs. The study addresses the reasons that parents seek to join these online support groups and the information they expect to acquire within them. The reviewed literature focuses on aspects of …
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A Telephone-Assisted Planning Intervention to Promote Parental Support for Physical Activity Among Children and Youth With Disabilities
Enhanced parental support could increase physical activity (PA) among children and youth with disabilities (CYD). The multi-process action control (M-PAC) model highlights behavioral strategies such as action planning (AP) as critical in facilitating parental support. There is no known research …
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Everyone Is Their Own Kind of Beautiful: The Long-Term Influences of the Girls Circle Process
… improve, including the creation of mandatory parent support group, "refresher” circle sessions, and implementation of a circle program aimed at helping young men.
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Estimating place-based protective factors for foster care placement disruption : a mixed methods study.
… agencies in mitigating conflict between foster parents and county caseworkers', and well-organized foster parent support teams. The study also proposes a new theory of personal characteristics that mitigate common causes of disruption called "restorative framing."
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