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Psychologists and Social Change

earn a good deal less for doing the same job. Lips (2003) reported that the earnings gap has persisted for decades and it does not...

The Problem of Alcohol Abuse - Impact in Abusers and Families

Alcohol poses a direct risk as a result of the physical impact it has on the body. The use of alcohol is often seen as a social ...

Instruction of the Deaf, A Film Analysis

to abide by her decision to communicate only in sign language. Young children acquire language skills by listening. From the tim...

WWIS-IV Case Study

Bowles & Skibbe, 2006). There are several cognitive assessment tests that can be used with preschoolers. These include the BSID-II...

How Difficult Can It Be?/Richard Lavoie

the class is ridiculous. However, just as CPR would be what this adult needs, accommodations are what LD student need and it is fa...

Setting Appropriate Goals for Children with Disabilities

reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...

Are Same-Sex Couples with Children Families

In 2006, for instance, surveys reflected that 30 percent of respondents stated that pets would count as family but gay couples did...

Montessori Mathematics

Montessori understood that math is more than numbers and calculations. It involves space, patterns, symbols, and patterns and the ...

Ideas For Teaching 0-6 Year-Olds

Theorists point out that even infants learn. In fact, infants learn math and science before they can talk. Young children are natu...

Family Dynamics and Alcoholism

connectedness is to avoid emotional fusion (Johnson and Stone, 2009). The study conducted by Johnson and Stone (2009) indicated th...

Wechsler Intelligence Test for Children

This essay discusses a number of issues related to the Wechsler for Children and testing scores in general. It defines percentile,...

Learning Comprehension

in that they know what the purpose of learning how to read is. Children do not necessarily equate a pleasant purpose. There are m...

The Effects of Divorce

of research, journal articles, books, magazines and newspaper articles. A great deal of it paints a negative and sad picture of th...

Hungry Children in America

This essay reports statistical data regarding families living below the poverty line and the numbers of children who are food inse...

Overweight Youth

The percentages of overweight and obese children and youth is alarming. About 17 percent of American children and adolescents are ...

A Program to Reduce Overweight Kids

The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...

Wartime Trauma

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on the presence of PTSD in children. This paper specifically looks at children who ...

CBT and NST to Treat Latino Victims of Sexual Abuse, A Research Method

This 5 page paper gives an example of how the method for a research study on Latino children victims of sexual abuse could be cond...

Weight and Self-Esteem

The percentage of obese children between the ages of 6 and 11 was 18 percent in 2012 while 21 percent of adolescents are obese. Th...

Sensory Training in the Montessori Method

Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician (the first female physician in Italy) and a renowned educator. The pedagogy she de...

The Use of Play for Therapy with Children

activities have been created as a part of therapeutic play; a process of introducing play activities through which children can pr...

This is a paper that discusses Uncle Tom’s

because they are swimming on a white persons property they find trouble, and violence. Big Boy and Bobo backed away, their eyes fa...

Preparing Children to Take Music Lessons

in reaching deaf and blind children who would otherwise tune out. When used to help children learn basic skills, it is referred to...

Ethnographic Research

Observations help the researcher to formulate initial descriptions and explanations of the phenomenon being explored; they may als...

Black Students Educational Achievement

programs for a specific race or ethnicity. The research question, by default, then, is: What types of educational programs help B...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Baltimore’s Child Protective Services & Chessie

the promise by officials that Chessie would give workers ready access to thousands of case files on a statewide basis had yet to m...

The Psychological Impact of Separation from their Parents on Foster Children

happening (Simms, Dubowitz and Szilagyi, 2000). Even though each case if different, there are several common reactions when chil...

Woman and Global Work

countries like this, sends a large portion of her salary home to support her children, as well as to pay the nanny who looks after...

Advancing Physical And Intellectual Competence In Children

year of life, where infants develop an understanding of the world around them by combining sensory experiences with physical activ...