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Yu, Hairui; Sheu, Jiunn-Jye – Health Educator, 2020
About three in ten Americans with hypertension do not take medication to control their blood pressure. The risk and protective factors of non-adherence to prescribed anti-hypertensive medication have not been well investigated. Participants who were aware of their hypertension, advised by healthcare professional to take anti-hypertensive…
Descriptors: Risk, Drug Therapy, Adults, Hypertension
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Muller, Kristen; Brady, Nancy C.; Fleming, Kandace K. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate and compare alternative modalities and stimuli used to measure receptive vocabulary skills in autistic children who are minimally verbal. This study systematically compared participants' outcomes on three different receptive vocabulary assessment conditions: a low-tech assessment that used a stimulus…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children
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Jones, Vita; Higgins, Kyle; Boone, Randall; Miller, Susan P.; Sileo, Nancy – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2014
This study involved a Delphi inquiry concerning the characteristics of resiliency specific to African American children/youth. The study was conducted with a large group of African American parents who were considered experts in resiliency because they had graduated from high school and had at least one child who had graduated from high school.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Parent Attitudes, Beliefs, Resilience (Psychology)
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Prady, Stephanie L.; Kiernan, Kathleen; Fairley, Lesley; Wright, John – Child Care in Practice, 2013
Some parenting behaviours and child characteristics can result in future behavioural problems. Relatively little is known about parenting behaviours in Pakistani-origin women, and how the timing of migration to the United Kingdom might affect such behaviours. We analysed differences in parenting behaviours and six-month infant temperament by…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Individual Characteristics, Behavior Problems
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Bennett, Emily; Heaton, Pamela – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Parents of 125 children, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders completed a newly developed questionnaire aimed at identifying cognitive and behavioural characteristics associated with savant skills in this group. Factors distinguishing skilled individuals were then further investigated in case studies of three individuals…
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Young Adults, Short Term Memory