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Gosens, Lotte C. F.; Otten, Roy; de Jonge, Jannet M.; Schellekens, Arnt F. A.; VanDerNagel, Joanneke E.L.; Didden, Robert; Poelen, Evelien A. P. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2022
Background: The prevalence of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) in people with Mild Intellectual Disability and Borderline Intellectual Functioning (MID-BIF) is high and evidence-based treatment programs are scarce. The present study describes the development of a personalised SUD treatment for people with MID-BIF. Method: The personalised SUD…
Descriptors: Mild Intellectual Disability, Substance Abuse, Intervention, Individual Needs
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Kruger, Bethany; Northway, Ruth – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
There is limited research that explores the experiences of how behavioural specialists actively involve people with a learning disability and challenging behaviour in the development of their positive behavioural support (PBS) plan. Accordingly, this exploratory research study aimed to explore this little understood area of practice. Methods: The…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Specialists, Learning Disabilities, Participation
Adams, Chithra; Corbin, Amanda; O'Hara, Luke; Sheppard-Jones, Kathleen; Bishop, Malachy – Human Development Institute, 2018
In this research brief we present the results of a recent needs assessment evaluating the advocacy-based needs for Kentuckians with developmental disabilities and their families. Results highlight the different levels and types of supports needed to build self-advocacy capacity and to inform effective planning and services and the individual,…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Advocacy, Developmental Disabilities, Capacity Building
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Teshome, Yalem; Osei-Kofi, Nana – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2012
This study examines the day-to-day experiences of female spouses of international students living in the United States as legal dependents of their male student spouses. Although these women are well-educated professionals, as legal dependents, they are prohibited from engaging in educational and professional endeavors during their sojourn. As a…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Spouses, International Education, Females
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Lee, Robert E. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
Objective: This study attempts to uncover barriers to participation in a marital enrichment program that had been expected to be attractive to eligible couples. Method: Work products associated with a multiyear demonstration project were subjected to ethnographic analysis. Results: Eligible couples did not see congruence between the program's…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Implementation, Recruitment, Needs Assessment
Siegel, Sidney R.; Rives, Janet M. – Aging and Work: A Journal on Age, Work and Retirement, 1980
A study of 300 nonmanufacturing firms' current and projected preretirement programs indicated that (1) personnel departments have primary responsibility for existing programs, (2) focus is changing from financial planning to psychological counseling, and (3) such programs benefit the company as well as the employee. (SK)
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Fringe Benefits, Individual Needs, Motivation
Barker, Jerry D. – 1985
In order for teacher centers to develop programs and activities appropriate to the needs of their target populations, a detailed and accurate representation, as well as ongoing evaluation of the center operation must be maintained. A data base must be established that encompasses the accurate portrayal of daily operations in order to facilitate…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Individual Needs, Inservice Teacher Education, Needs Assessment
Glickman, Lillian L.; And Others – 1975
This document contains a sourcebook developed as a program planning guide for community colleges and other interested institutions for the planning and implementation of effective educational programs for the elderly. The sourcebook contains the following information: (1) an examination of the changes in the nature of the older adult population…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Guides
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Brown, James M.; Kayser, Terrence F. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1985
Presents a model based on person-environment fit that is designed to increase retention of students with unique educational needs in postsecondary vocational education programs. The specific details that surround the development of this model are examined and are related to the nature and extent of the problem. (CT)
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate, Educational Needs, Individual Needs
Sheldon, Ann Workman – 1981
Providing comprehensive services for the elderly in local communities presents planners and potential users with a complex set of problems. The development of new or expanded service to the elderly was examined within an ecologically informed resource dependency model to assess the effect on service expansion of organizational maintenance factors…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Resources, Financial Support, Human Services
Zweibel, Nancy R. – 1984
Research into the decisionmaking process of families faced with investigating alternatives to institutionalizing frail aged members could yield valuable information for service planners and providers. To analyze the extent to which its original service plan remained responsive to the changing needs of the frail elderly service population,…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Decision Making, Family Problems, Human Services
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Ogletree, Earl J.; Dunbar, Betty Jo – Illinois School Research and Development, 1979
The author concludes from his survey that inner-city classroom teachers find in-service programs to be irrelevant and useless if they are not based on the needs of the teachers and if teachers have little or no input in their development. (Editor)
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Individual Needs, Inservice Teacher Education, Negative Attitudes
Brown, James M.; Kayser, Terrence F. – 1982
A developing concern in Minnesota for the fact that a greater percentage of special needs students than non-special needs students tends to drop out of postsecondary vocational education prompted a project to promote articulation--transition--for these students into postsecondary education. A statewide survey was conducted to determine current…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Disabilities, Dropout Prevention, Educational Planning
Arnold, Carolyn; Marzone, Jean – 1981
As part of its five-year state plan for vocational education, the California State Department of Education and the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges commissioned a study of the needs of displaced homemakers. (These women's needs were relevant to the state's plans for vocational education because the Education Amendments of…
Descriptors: Adults, Displaced Homemakers, Educational Needs, Employer Attitudes
Flanagan, John C. – 1979
The situations and feelings of representative national samples of 50- and 70-year-olds were investigated in order to provide a representative, adequate data base for planning programs and policies that will result in maximum improvement in the quality of life of older Americans at minimum costs to taxpayers. Intensive case studies of 1,000…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitudes, Case Studies, Gerontology
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