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Esler, Amy N.; Bal, Vanessa Hus; Guthrie, Whitney; Wetherby, Amy; Weismer, Susan Ellis; Lord, Catherine – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
Standardized calibrated severity scores (CSS) have been created for Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, 2nd edition (ADOS-2) Modules 1-4 as a metric of the relative severity of autism-specific behaviors. Total and domain CSS were created for the Toddler Module to facilitate comparison to other modules. Analyses included 388 children with ASD…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Diagnostic Tests, Observation
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Alzyoudi, Mohammed; Sartawi, AbedAlziz; Almuhiri, Osha – British Journal of Special Education, 2015
Children with autism often show a lack of the interactive social skills that would allow them to engage with others successfully. They therefore frequently need training to aid them in successful social interaction. Video modelling is a widely used instructional technique that has been applied to teach children with developmental disabilities such…
Descriptors: Autism, Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Modeling (Psychology)
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Chevallier, Coralie; Huguet, Pascal; Happé, Francesca; George, Nathalie; Conty, Laurence – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
Diminished social attention is often considered to be a central deficit in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). We further investigate this hypothesis by measuring the distracting power of social and non-social stimuli in the context of a Stroop task among children with ASD and typically developing controls (TDCs). Our results show that Stroop…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Cues, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Davis, Loni – ProQuest LLC, 2013
An increasing portion of the contemporary workforce is using mobile devices to create new kinds of work-space flows characterized by emergence, liquidity, and the blurring of all kinds of boundaries. This changes the traditional notion of the term "workplace." The present study focuses on how people enact and make sense of new work space…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Work Environment, Interviews, Reflection
Wendy M. Reinke; Melissa Stormont; Ann Clare; Tracey Latimore; Keith C. Herman – Grantee Submission, 2013
Schools implementing tiered supports for social behavior need to be systematic and thoughtful about moving to the next tier. However, schools often apply resources they have in a blanket fashion for children who demonstrate behavior problems. This practice is problematic, and there is a need for increased efforts to plan and be more careful about…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Intervention, Behavior Problems, Integrity
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Wendy M. Reinke; Melissa Stormont; Ann Clare; Tracey Latimore; Keith C. Herman – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2013
Schools implementing tiered supports for social behavior need to be systematic and thoughtful about moving to the next tier. However, schools often apply resources they have in a blanket fashion for children who demonstrate behavior problems. This practice is problematic, and there is a need for increased efforts to plan and be more careful about…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Intervention, Behavior Problems, Integrity
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Collinson, Craig – British Journal of Special Education, 2012
This article explores the possibility that "dyslexics" can be thought of as being "othered" and defined by the social norms and educational practices surrounding literacy; which can be termed "Lexism". As such the author, Craig Collinson, a postgraduate academic support officer at Edge Hill University, presents "Lexism" as a new concept that…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Social Distance, Inclusion, Literacy
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Korucu, Irem; Selcuk, Bilge; Harma, Mehmet – Infant and Child Development, 2017
It is argued that self-regulation skill is necessary both for displaying constructive behaviour and for controlling negative social behaviour, and self-regulation might affect social behaviours by increasing the ability to understand others' minds. In this research, in order to examine different aspects of self-regulation and their similarities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Control, Social Behavior, Executive Function
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Macvean, Michelle; Shlonsky, Aron; Mildon, Robyn; Devine, Ben – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objectives: To scope evaluations of Indigenous parenting programs designed to improve child psychosocial outcomes. Methods: Electronic databases, gray literature, Indigenous websites and journals, and reference lists were searched. The search was restricted to high-income countries with a history of colonialism. Results: Sixteen studies describing…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Psychological Patterns, Mental Health, Child Rearing
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McAlaney, John; Jenkins, William – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
The social norms approach is an increasingly widely used strategy of behaviour and attitude change that is based on challenging misperceptions individuals hold about their peers. Research to date has been carried out predominately in the US college system, with a focus on substance use behaviours. The aim of the current study was to explore peer…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Smoking, Drinking, Marijuana
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Pang, Bo; Rundle-Thiele, Sharyn Robyn; Kubacki, Krzysztof – Health Education, 2017
Purpose: Evidence indicates that active school travel (AST) including walking can effectively lower levels of obesity among school-age children. Yet Queensland has been identified as one of the most inactive states in Australia where only 5 per cent of Years 1 and 5 children engaged in AST on a daily basis. The purpose of this paper is to explain…
Descriptors: Transportation, Physical Activities, Obesity, Health Behavior
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Tarhini, Ali; Hone, Kate; Liu, Xiaohui; Tarhini, Takwa – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
In this study, we examine the effects of individual-level culture on the adoption and acceptance of e-learning tools by students in Lebanon using a theoretical framework based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). To overcome possible limitations of using TAM in developing countries, we extend TAM to include "subjective norms" (SN)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Adoption (Ideas), Models
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Balci, Özgül – English Language Teaching, 2017
The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the language learning strategies of freshman students and their learning styles. This study is a descriptive research and employs a relational screening model. Participants of the study were 328 freshman students majoring in different fields at Necmettin Erbakan University Ahmet…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Correlation, Second Language Learning
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Chang, Lei; Lu, Hui Jing; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Skinner, Ann T.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Steinberg, Laurence; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Chen, Bin Bin; Tian, Qian; Bacchini, Dario; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Pastorelli, Concetta; Alampay, Liane Peña; Sorbring, Emma; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Oburu, Paul; Malone, Patrick S.; Di Giunta, Laura; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Tapanya, Sombat – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH strategies in turn regulate development and behavior to optimize survival under prevailing safety…
Descriptors: Safety, Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Longitudinal Studies
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van Rijn, Sophie; Stockmann, Lex; Borghgraef, Martine; Bruining, Hilgo; van Ravenswaaij-Arts, Conny; Govaerts, Lutgarde; Hansson, Kerstin; Swaab, Hanna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
The present study aimed to gain more insight in the social behavioral phenotype, and related autistic symptomatology, of children with an extra X chromosome in comparison to children with ASD. Participants included 60 children with an extra X chromosome (34 boys with Klinefelter syndrome and 26 girls with Trisomy X), 58 children with ASD and 106…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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