Social-communication and Play (ASAP) intervention on preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder What’s the big idea: A studied completed by Dykstra‚ Boyd‚ Watson‚ Crais‚ and Baranek evaluated social communication and play skills in young children. The study took place in a public preschool with children who were on the spectrum. Dykstra et al.‚ examined the outcomes of the ASAP intervention (Advancing Social-communication and Play). They used the intervention in two different situations: a group
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KCISD SUICIDE THREAT/INTENT INTERVENTION PROTOCAL FOR KCISD PRINCIPALS‚ SCHOOL COUNSELORS‚ & NURSES Call 911 immediately if the student is in imminent danger of loss of life‚ or in a medical emergency as a result of a suicide threat/attempt. Then immediately contact the School Nurse‚ School Counselor‚ and School Principal. Step 1: Intervention if student is not in immediate threat of loss of life or medical emergency: • If a student threatens suicide or shows signs of intent‚ immediate action
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Federal Investment in Early Childhood Intervention The United States government has been advocating the early influence on health and development of children since the early 1900’s. Congress established a Children’s Bureau in the Department of Labor in 1912. The purpose of this sub-department was “to investigate and report … upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people.” (Meisels & Shonkoff) In the Bureau’s first printed annual report
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Questions: 1) Describe the purpose of the study (1-2 sentences‚ 1 mark). The purpose of the study outlined in the article was to evaluate one of the fairly new intervention programs‚ MEND. 2) Describe the study design (just the design‚ not the intervention)‚ including the number of children in the intervention and control groups (3-4 sentences‚ 2 marks). The particular study design was executed as a 6-month randomized controlled trial which consisted of a 9-week MEND program followed by a 12-week
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Several interventions were implemented. One intervention consisted of identifying and reinforcing positive school behaviors with the student. The intervention was also discussed with his family and they also agreed to reinforce the same messages at home. The theory that this was based on was the behaviorist psychologist
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flexibility-training interventions can maintain or improve functional abilities in healthy adults over the age of 65 years. As this research was exploratory‚ a hypothesis was not stated. According to Stathokostat et al.‚ in this study there were 1127 participants‚ of whom 841 were female‚ and 286 were male. The participants’ ages ranged from 65 years to 88 years old. An electronic literature on five databases was researched for intervention studies‚ which related to training interventions‚ flexibility‚
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Most of the primary care clinics in Quebec and in the world do not offer an interdisciplinary intervention to treat individuals with LBP [66-71]. However‚ four CSSSs in Quebec offer an interdisciplinary intervention program to manage individuals with CLBP. In this program‚ individuals with LBP are first seen by general practitioners (GPs) who refer the patients to the interdisciplinary team‚ which includes physicians‚ nurses‚ physiotherapists‚ and clinical psychologists. The team delivers pharmacological
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attention and creating a passion among the students about the subject taught has been a concern for a very long time. Student –centered instruction is gaining more importance where students exercise a substantial degree of responsibility for what is taught‚ how it is learned‚ and for involvement in the classroom. The role technology played in this change cannot be ignored. Technology is helping teachers to expand beyond linear‚ text-based learning and to engage students‚ who learn best in
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How to define the ’middle class ’? BY LI KUI-WAI Published: Mar 15 2013 8:50 Email | Print | Share Text Size The definition of “middle class” has been debated recently in Hong Kong. One simplistic definition would be to take the median or average income and those who received the middle” level of income are the “middle class”. Such a definition is easy to understand in mathematical terms‚ but is naive and has a number of drawbacks. Firstly‚ how close the income level to the “middle” would
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