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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"verbal skills"”.
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Skill-based treatment embedded in enhanced choice model for a child with developmental disabilities and impaired verbal skills in a school setting
… package applied to individuals with impaired verbal skills. Therefore, this study aimed to expand on this line of research by investigating the effects of the SBT-ECM intervention package in treating problem behaviour in an 8-year-old boy with comorbid DD diagnoses and impaired verbal skills. …
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Three Essays on Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
… we are interested in the associations between verbal and quantitative skills and individual earnings as well as the employer learning process of these two specific types of skills. There exist significant differences in both the labor market rewards and employer learning process of verbal and …
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Executive and behavioural functioning in girls with Turner's syndrome
… a specific neuropsychological profile of normal verbal skills, impaired visuo-spatial and/or visuo-perceptual abilities and difficulty with motor function. Recently there have been reports of deficits in executive functions. The current study investigated the role of executive and behavioural …
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College students' comfort with assertive behaviors: An analysis of students with and without disabilities in three different postsecondary institutions
… assertiveness; b) college students' comfort with verbal assertiveness; and c) college students' comfort with prosocial verbal skills. iv There were no significant differences between students with disabilities and students without disabilities in terms of their discomfort with assertive behaviors …
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The effects of early intervention on young handicapped children who are nonverbal or have limited expressive language skills
… sixteen young handicapped children who were nonverbal or exhibited limited expressive verbal skills. It was proposed that these children would make gains in all areas of development including cognitive, receptive language, expressive language, fine motor, gross motor, self-help, and …
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Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and challenging behaviours (CB): training and content knowledge of teachers in the Republic of Ireland
… outcomes (e.g. raised IQ scores, improved verbal skills, and increased adaptive behaviours; Fein, 2013; Dawson et al. 2010) and is widely accepted as an evidence-based practice for educational interventions for individuals with autism spectrum disorders (Odom,2010). Irish teachers of …
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Exposing a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to more than one language in the home : is it beneficial?
… a parental questionnaire. The participants’ pre-verbal skills were assessed during free-play using the Rossetti-Infant Toddler Language Scale (Rossetti, 2006), while their receptive and expressive language skills were assessed using the Mac-Arthur Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words …
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Research, Rhetoric, and the Writing Curriculum: Consciousness Expansion Through Bi-Hemisphericity
… brain research has to say about left-hemispheric verbal skills and right-hemispheric imaginal skills. A survey of literary, philosophical, and rhetorical expressions shows that man has for a long time "known" what brain research bears out: verbal and imaginal skills must work together for one to …
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A scale for the measurement of metacognitive reading awareness in developmental college students
… subjects enrolled in college reading or study skills courses at a medium sized Midwestern university were used. Student reactions from pilot testing, evaluations from reading specialists, and readability estimates were used to assess suitability and content validity.Reliability investigations …
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The Use, Beliefs, Perceived Barriers, and Methods of Delivery of Play Therapy by Elementary School Counselors
… 2004). Because young children often lack the verbal skills needed to communicate anxieties or fears and because children naturally communicate through the use of play, elementary school counselors realize that play therapy is an appropriate alternative to talk therapy (Landreth, 2002). …
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Linking Developmental Working Memory and Early Academic Skills
… Current research has examined working memory skills in relationship to early learning. The function of working memory is best examined in the context of childhood developmental theory using the framework of Baddeley and Hitch's model. Understanding developmental working memory components in …
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Cluster analysis of learning disabled and brain damaged children and adolescents using psycho-educational, neuropsychological and behavioral variables
… measures but demonstrated relatively stronger nonverbal than verbal skills. The second group (20%) was within normal limits on all psycho-educational and behavioral measures but demonstrated marked sensory deficits. A third and much smaller group (9%) was distinguished by its younger average age, …
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Social cognition in childhood: The relationships between Attachmnet-related representations, Theory of Mind and Peer Popularity
… were found to be associated with theory of mind skills at baseline and follow up, but this was no longer significant once verbal ability was controlled for.<br/>Children’s disciplinary attachment-related representations were found to be associated with teacher-rated problems amongst peers. Also, …
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Getting in sync: Exploring and supporting peer interaction in an autistic child with inconsistent access to speech
… intervention studies have tended toward a skills-based approach that emphasizes remediating perceived social deficits in the autistic individual, with most of the literature focusing on children who are classified as “high functioning” due to their verbal skills and/or typical IQ scores. …
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A Critical Study of Carl F. H. Henry's Portrayal of the Human Role in Revelation and Inspiration
… capacity, reasoning powers, memory, and verbal skills to receive, elucidate, or articulate revelation. Its nature is so adjusted to man that he does not need supernatural help to understand and communicate it. In fact his reasoning faculties can even discriminate between revelation and …
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The semiotics of non-verbal communication in the attorney, client consultation process
… of law graduates that were lacking in essential skills and they stressed that clients in legal matters are placed at risk if new practitioners are not properly equipped to assist them.1 Many lamented the academic nature of the LLB programmes at most tertiary institutions as concentrating only on …
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Predicting the academic performance of Virginia community college transfer students to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University using academic and non-academic background characteristics
… a curriculum is an important moderator variable. Verbal skills appear important in humanities, education, and business; quantitative skills in engineering, architecture, and agriculture. Transfer students graduating with a CC GPA of 3.0 or higher in the Associate in Science or Associate in Arts …
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Preschoolers’ Use of Verbal and Musical Strategies for Solving a Spatial Reasoning Task
<p>Spatial reasoning is the ability to visualize and interact with one’s three-dimensional environment. A spatial problem that is particularly challenging for young children is the tube task, developed by Hood in 1995. Children are presented with an apparatus that consists of a large frame with …
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The relationship between growth, development and social milieu - a longitudinal study involving preschool Coloured children in Cape Town
… fine motor development including visuo-motor skills and language, both comprehension and expression as well as basic colour and number concepts. Social data were collected during home visits by two experienced, full-time research social workers, who were both integrally involved in the …