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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"special populations"”.
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Youth Gardening: Opportunities for Strengthening Life Skills and Educational Achievement with Special Populations
It is believed that an effective way of reducing levels of juvenile delinquency is to implement preventative programs for young children. This research explored the use of a youth gardening project as a preventative program by examining the effects on self-concept. The study involved two groups of …
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An Historical Policy Analysis of the Carl D. Perkins Legislation: Examining the History, Creation, Implementation and Reauthorization of the Law
… Act of 1984, with the incorporation of “special populations” as a provision in the law from 1963. From 1917 through 1963, vocational funding primarily supported teacher training, research, program improvement, and expansion of vocational programs, in 1963 acknowledging the social climate …
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Test-Relief Reliability of the Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test with Children Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… way. Research supports the use of this test with special populations such as those with learning disabilities, those who are intellectually gifted, as well as with those who have speech/language impairments (Bracken & McCallum, 1998). One population not accounted for in the test's standardization …
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Play Therapy Instruction: A Model Based On Objectives Developed by the Delphi Technique
… to the field, methods, skills, training in special populations, practicum experience, and advanced skills. Two questionnaires were used to obtain opinions from play therapy experts and play therapy instructors. The first questionnaire was sent to twelve play therapy experts to obtain their …
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A Descriptive, Comparative Health Assessment Of Unique Older-Adult Populations In Israel
… Israel's elders include numerous minorities and special groups, and despite research of many groups over decades, disparities continue to exist. Methods: A descriptive analysis of special geriatric populations and their health issues was performed based on national and international literature, …
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Role taking ability and social interaction competence in mental retardation and autism
… role taking deficits in a variety of special populations. Recent data suggest that individuals with autism also show such deficits when compared to nonautistic mentally retarded subjects and normal subjects matched for mental age. These deficits in role taking ability have been …
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Vaccination Hesitancy Through the Ages: The Past, Present, and Future Implications
… with lower COVID-19 caseload, a miracle for special populations such as pregnant, pediatric, and older patients at higher risk for COVID-19 complications. This thesis seeks to explore, through a bioethical lens, the factors that contribute to the growth of today’s vaccine hesitancy movement. …
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Evidence of emotion knowledge in down syndrome
… developmentally sensitive measures when studying special populations like DS.
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Using a voice synthesizer to increase reading comprehension levels of learning disabled adults:implications for training
Research efforts to determine the needs of special populations has increased in the field of human factors. The majority of these efforts are focused on the physically disabled. Little attention has been paid to the learning disabled, and specifically, the learning disabled adult. A single factor …
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Challenging Norms, Creating Art: An Anti-Ableist Lens on Visual Arts Education
… and advocate for the importance of art for special populations, this qualitative study explored how visual artists with disabilities make and articulate their creative processes and final products, revealing four basic themes—Material Choices and Use, Methods, Inspirations, and …
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Online data collection for developmental research
… back for repeat sessions, and working with special populations or diverse samples. These constraints limit the types of questions that can be addressed in the lab as well as the quality of evidence that can be obtained. In this dissertation, I present a new platform, "Lookit," that allows …
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Developing a protocol for an online exercise programme for cerebral palsy clients using 'Physitrack'
… technology show successful integrations in other special populations of games and applications (apps) (i.e., Virtual reality (VR)). However, the use of task-specific online exercise programs/apps within the CP population is unknown. METHODS The literature review (Chapter 2) systematically searched …
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Looking smart is not the ultimate goal: An examination of a gifted and talented science program
… investigate the significance of each of these in special populations particularly in the academic field of science. The literature indicates that educational programs should be subject to evaluation, yet such evaluation is not routinely carried out. In a balanced teaching system, components such …
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Evaluating the utility of the test of narrative language for use with deaf children via American Sign Language
… the appropriateness of this measure for use with special populations and bring to light new information about children's narrative development and the differences in the language modalities of these two groups. Also, the application of this information on future testing of deaf populations is …
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Issues related to the education of gifted children in the United States: a Delphi study
… and training of teachers for the gifted; (d) special populations of gifted (handicapped, females, minorities, underachievers, pre-school, and the highly gifted); (e) goals of gifted programs; and (f) definition of the term "gifted." Panelists agreed on 53 actions that should be taken at the …
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Examining Stage at Diagnosis and Survival in Three Cancers with Definitive Screening Guidelines for Average-risk Adults: The Role of Marital Status
… screening guidance. It is critical to identify special populations that may be at risk for poor cancer outcomes.</p> <p>The objective of this study was to examine the relationship of marital status with disease stage at the time of diagnosis and cancer-specific survival among population-based …
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A study of self-efficacy based interventions on the career development of high achieving male and female high school students
… and replication with more diverse and special populations as well as with elementary and junior high school students.
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A Phenomenological Approach to User-Centered Design: Conceptualizing the Technology Design Space to Assist Military Veterans with Community Reintegration
… information from representative users from special populations. This research extended elicitation approaches traditional focus on user needs and context to include criteria describing obstacles users encounter. Military veterans were selected for this research effort as representative users …
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Teacher Job Satisfaction in the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice School System
… condition of size emerged as significant, especially with teachers who work with special populations. The researcher found that teachers with more years teaching experience and those with higher levels of certification were more satisfied with their jobs than those with less years teaching …
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Development of a pericyte-based strategy to recover aged skeletal muscle after disuse
… physical rehabilitation is often incomplete in special populations such as older adults, due to injury and pain, functional limitations, and anabolic resistance. Prolonged loss of muscle can lead to metabolic disorders, physical disability, loss of independence and premature death. Therefore, it …
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