NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Severinsson, Susanne – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
This article presents analyses of documents from special schools in Sweden for students in the care of social welfare who have been assessed with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. The aim is to use actor-network theory to analyse how blame and critique are handled in individual educational plans, and how responsibilities are produced…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Risk, Conflict, Special Schools
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Oliveira, Paula Salgado; Fearon, R. M. Pasco; Belsky, Jay; Fachada, Inês; Soares, Isabel – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Institutional rearing adversely affects children's development, but the extent to which specific characteristics of the institutional context and the quality of care provided contribute to problematic development remains unclear. In this study, 72 preschoolers institutionalised for at least 6 months were evaluated by their caregiver using the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Institutional Characteristics, Child Development, Preschool Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lunsky, Yona; Raina, Poonam; Jones, Jessica – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2012
Background: Individuals with intellectual disability (ID) and legal involvement are a unique population with complex needs. To date, there has been limited research exploring the demographic and clinical profiles of individuals with ID and legal involvement that are in crisis and how they differ to individuals with ID without legal involvement.…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Profiles, Background, Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Nugent, Mary; Jones, Valerie; McElroy, Deirdre; Peelo, Mary; Thornton, Teresa; Tierney, Theresa – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2014
This article reports on a two year project in which educational psychologists offered consultation to groups of teachers, to help them find solutions to school-based problems. Teachers were drawn from within individual schools and from across a number of schools. Typically, teachers were trained by educational psychologists in group consultation…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Consultation Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Maatta, Tuomo; Maatta, Joonas; Tervo-Maatta, Tuula; Taanila, Anja; Kaski, Markus; Iivanainen, Matti – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2011
Background: Medical problems are described in a population of persons with Down syndrome. Health surveillance is compared to the recommendations of national guidelines. Method: Case records from the specialised and primary healthcare and disability services were analysed. Results: A wide spectrum of age-specific medical and surgical problems was…
Descriptors: Case Records, Alzheimers Disease, Diseases, Down Syndrome
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tirella, Linda Grey; Miller, Laurie C. – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2011
Many newly arrived international adoptees (IA) have difficulties with eating, sleeping, and self-soothing/self-stimulating (SS) behaviors. However, to date the prevalence of these problems and associated risk factors have not been clearly identified. Therefore, we proposed to evaluate 387 IA for the presence of these self-regulation and behavioral…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Sleep, Risk, Immigrants
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Holstead, Jenell; Dalton, Jim; Horne, Anita; Lamond, Diane – Child Welfare, 2010
Much controversy exists regarding the effectiveness of residential treatment. Recently, emerging research has demonstrated that community-based residential treatment has more positive long-term outcomes for youth. This article describes a community-based program that was implemented at a residential treatment agency serving youth. Targeted…
Descriptors: Residential Programs, Outcomes of Treatment, Program Effectiveness, Youth Opportunities