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Group Counseling for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

The mentally retarded are the focus of this paper that looks at group counseling. This is not an ordinary approach taken with this...

Americans with Disabilities Act and its Impact Upon Transportation in the United States

In ten pages this paper discusses how US transportation has been impacted by the 1990 passage of the ADA. Ten sources are cited i...

Children with Disabilities and Communication Assistance

In eight pages strategies that can be employed to foster communication in disabled children are discussed and include various inte...

Troponin and Changes in Muscular Fitness During Deep Space Flight.

This 7 page paper discusses the involvement of troponin with regard to the effects of zero gravity on muscle mass. There has been ...

U.S. Attitudes About Disabilities, Religion, and Race

time again in the pervading interest in areas of social psychology, abnormal psychology and individual differences. However, even ...

ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

Maltreatment: Impact Upon A Child's Cognitive And Physical Development

to the childs mental composition. If left emotionally unattended, infants learn the opposite lessons required for living within a...

Bluest Eye, Sonny Blues and Cathedra

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

Submissive Characters In Children's Literature: Influence Upon Self-Perception In Female Children

set down for them without making any fuss. Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, authors of Writing and Reading Across the Curri...

Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

and classical theories of language processing. That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language...

Education And Senior Centers

active role in adult education by virtue of already having a facility full of eager learners. Some might not be aware of just how...

Learning A Second Language In Infancy And/Or Childhood: Benefits Or Costs For Language Development?

controversial - examples of how the spoken language has fallen victim to the lazy tongues of many bi- and multilingual societies. ...

Cultural And Gender Influences In Education And Organizations

the grip of failure. Students with limited English speaking skills are routinely challenged to understand the very basics of less...

Possible Benefits Of Video Games On Academics & Academic Studies

game makes it obvious how this long-considered time wasting, socially depriving commodity be put to use for its beneficial propert...

Inclusion And Cooperative Learning

a variety of models to increase academic performance of special education students. They have met with some success in that 65 per...

Adult Learning Styles, Temperaments And Theories In "Educating Rita"

a person and requires the individual to participate fully and completely in the experience. The first segment of the Kolb Model -...

Personal Definition Of Video Games

methods of book reading; given the multitude of students who have at least some level or type of learning and/or attention disorde...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Training and Change

it though learning. The different models can be seen as based on learning styles, how information is communicated and also how t...

Lessons Learned From Love Canal

with earth and sold it to the city for one dollar" (Beck, 1979). Shortly thereafter a residential community and school sprouted u...

Sameroff's Transactional Model Of Development: Association With Cognitive Development

Whether typical in nature or fraught with learning difficulties, Sameroff (1975a) contends the extent to which parental involvemen...

The Brain and Foreign Language: Acquisition

which memory is responsible for structuring learning foreign language is both grand and far-reaching; that certain components of r...

Park's "The Siege: The First Eight Years Of An Autistic Child"

they could understand. Even so, Park believed this was the best option for Elly if she was going to assimilate into any semblance...

Learning Theories And Teaching Models

to associate the ringing of a bell with being fed and would subsequently salivate when the bell was rung (Encyclopedia of Educatio...

Adolescent Motivation To Learn And Achieve

this youngster is challenged with massive physiological and emotional changes. This stage is called: Identity vs. Role Confusion (...

An Overview Education Concepts

Five educational concepts were explained with comments about how they would impact the student and the instructor. The concepts ar...

Behaviorism/Teaching College Students

focused on operant rather classical conditioning (Mergel, 1998). Operant conditioning refers to "voluntary behaviors used in opera...

Formulating an ESL Theory

between grammatical and communicative approaches to second-language teaching. Grammatical approaches refer to instructional method...

Modallity Preferences

We all have a preference in terms of how we want to receive information and how we tend to convey information. This essay describe...