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Courchesne, Eric – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2004
Due to the relatively late age of clinical diagnosis of autism, the early brain pathology of children with autism has remained largely unstudied. The increased use of retrospective measures such as head circumference, along with a surge of MRI studies of toddlers with autism, have opened a whole new area of research and discovery. Recent studies…
Descriptors: Autism, Clinical Diagnosis, Pathology, Brain
Welner, Kevin – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2006
This article discusses the laws that protect individuals with disabilities and the laws that protect individuals from racial and language discrimination. It explains the important difference between the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504. It also describes practical application of the laws and provides two examples…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Student Diversity, English (Second Language), Minority Group Children
Fleckner, John A. – Journal of Archival Organization, 2004
New information and communications technologies have transformed the archival enterprise in less than a quarter century. They have changed the way we work and, more importantly, our relationship with the wider society. Access to archives has increased immeasurably and spurred demand for use of archives. At the same time, in a painful irony, public…
Descriptors: Archives, Information Management, Technological Advancement, Time Perspective
Braley, Susan – E-Learning, 2005
The study "New Media in the Humanities: from metaphors of inevitability to metaphors of possibility," argues that using digital technologies in humanities classrooms (at the post-secondary level) is transformative for both students and professors. It begins by identifying and then allaying the fears that scholars in the humanities…
Descriptors: Internet, Humanities, Educational Technology, Figurative Language
Kaste, Janine A. – Teaching & Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2004
This study focused on my use of first grade literacy cases to scaffold a diverse constructivist perspective in my literacy methods course for preservice teachers. The cases depicted my concurrent work in a local school with three underachieving readers, two having diverse backgrounds with respect to home languages and socioeconomic status. I…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Preservice Teacher Education, Constructivism (Learning), Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Fernandez-Viader, Maria del Pilar; Fuentes, Mariana – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2004
This article examines the legal instruments and educational politics affecting deaf persons' educational rights in Spain. We present a historical view of deaf education in Spain before and after the Congress of Milan (1880) and then introduce educational legislation and practices in recent decades. At present, Spanish legislation is moving toward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Bilingual Education, Deafness
Dail, Edward; Mora, Jorge – Community College Journal of Research & Practice, 2006
John Tyler Community College in Chester, Virginia, began a program in architecture and building construction in fall 2003 to meet the needs of the Hispanic community--a much neglected but rapidly growing segment of the regional population. After first hiring a Hispanic director (Mr. Jorge Mora), a program was developed that heavily involved the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Architectural Education, Community Colleges, School Community Relationship
Hadden, D. Sarah; Pianta, Robert C. – Young Children, 2006
Professional Development is an ideal way to ensure that early childhood teachers have the skills and knowledge they need to improve student achievement. Unfortunately, many teachers report that the workshops and in-services typically offered are of minimal value because they often do not relate to what is actually going on in their classrooms…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Web Based Instruction, Literacy Education, Language Skills
Hayiou-Thomas, Marianna E.; Harlaar, Nicole; Dale, Philip S.; Plomin, Robert – Journal of Research in Reading, 2006
We use a genetically sensitive design to examine the relationship between language and nonverbal ability at 4 and a half and reading skills at 7 years of age in a sample of more than 1,000 children participating in the Twins Early Development Study. We find that nonphonological as well as phonological measures of early language make significant…
Descriptors: Twins, Emergent Literacy, Language Skills, Nonverbal Ability
Bakx, A. W. E. A.; Van der Sanden, J. M. M.; Sijtsma, K.; Croon, M. A.; Vermetten, Y. J. M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2006
An important purpose of higher social work education is to guide students to acquire and develop social-communicative competencies. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role students' personality characteristics, self-perceived communicative competence and learning conceptions play in the acquisition and development of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Student Characteristics, Personality Traits, Higher Education
Van der Elst, Wim; Van Boxtel, Martin P. J.; Van Breukelen, Gerard J. P.; Jolles, Jelle – Assessment, 2006
The Stroop Color-Word Test was administered to 1,856 cognitively screened, healthy Dutch-speaking participants aged 24 to 81 years. The effects of age, gender, and education on Stroop test performance were investigated to adequately stratify the normative data. The results showed that especially the speed-dependent Stroop scores (time to complete…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Adults, Psychological Evaluation, Predictor Variables
Dalla, Rochelle L.; Lopez, William E.; Jones, Vicky O.; Xia, Yan – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2006
Individual (e.g., depression, learning styles) and familial (e.g., social support) factors affecting the psychosocial well-being of bilingual, rural Nebraska, paraprofessional educators were examined. Of 26 participants, 15 were first and 5 were second generation Hispanic immigrants. All were currently (n= 20) or formerly (n= 6) involved in an…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Bilingualism, Stress Variables, Hispanic Americans
Avila, Verdi N. – School Administrator, 2005
The No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to communicate with parents in an "understandable and uniform format ... in a language that parents can understand." But with a student population representing 131 countries and speaking 81 major languages, the Cobb County, Ga., Public School District was finding it difficult to meet…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Federal Legislation, School Districts, Non English Speaking
Jeon-Ellis, Gumock; Debski, Robert; Wigglesworth, Gillian – Language Learning & Technology, 2005
Language teachers need to provide students with a context for genuine communication (Sullivan, 2000). Project-oriented computer-assisted language learning (PrOCALL) attempts to achieve this by orienting learners towards tasks, which encourages them to communicate in the target language while working towards completion of a project (Debski, 2000).…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Educational Technology
O'Dwyer, Laura M.; Russell, Michael; Bebell, Damian; Tucker-Seeley, Kevon R. – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2005
With increased emphasis on test-based accountability measures has come increased interest in examining the impact of technology use on students' academic performance. However, few empirical investigations exist that address this issue. This paper (1) examines previous research on the relationship between student achievement and technology use, (2)…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Grade 4, Correlation, Research Methodology

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