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Williams, Regina Gavin – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of customized individual counseling interventions on the career and college readiness of adolescents within foster care. An intervention program, consisting of customized individual interventions, entitled "Students That Are Reaching Success" ("S.T.A.R.S.") was created by the…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Intervention, College Readiness, Foster Care
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Baltruschat, Lisa; Hasselhorn, Marcus; Tarbox, Jonathan; Dixon, Dennis R.; Najdowski, Adel C.; Mullins, Ryan D.; Gould, Evelyn R. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often exhibit impaired executive function (EF) performance, including difficulty with working memory (WM), in particular. While research has documented the existence of these deficits, surprisingly little research exists that evaluates potential treatment strategies for improving EF or WM. One…
Descriptors: Intervention, Maintenance, Autism, Short Term Memory
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O'Hare, Michael; Hogan, John D. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1983
Seventy mentally retarded students, successfully taught to conserve number and substance in the Piagetian sense, resisted attempts at extinction but were unable to generalize to other conservation tasks. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Elementary Secondary Education