Teaching Purchasing Skills Through the Application of Constant Time Delay to Students with Moderate Mental Retardation during Community-Based Instruction

A constant time delay procedure was used to teach two students with moderate mental retardation how to purchase food at local fast food restaurants and snacks at a local convenience store. Students were taught to purchase the items using paper money and were required to determine the amount due by locating the next dollar up amount on a number line. A 5-second time delay was used in teaching the subjects these purchasing skills. Training was evaluated with a multiple probe design across settings. Results indicated subjects did not reach criterion in the fast food setting. In the convenience store setting subjects did not reach the criterion level; however, subjects made substantial improvements in their purchasing skills

The Compassionate Court: Reforming the Justice System Inside and Outside

There is growing scholarship and justice system attention regarding the quality and effect of court interactions on citizens who come before the bar, as well as court system employees. From this research and the impact of therapeutic court experience, the Compassionate Court is born. The Compassionate Court considers court matters from a wider perspective that factors human behavior and disabilities, as well as community and societal influences that caused conflicts, and encourages courts to formulate alternative therapeutic solutions. The Compassionate Court reflects a coherent, navigable, and humanistic judicial process no matter the severity of the matter or difficulty of the personalities involved. It embodies compassion as part of a cohesive, integrated structure at each door, floor, person, and component in the court. The result is a court system whose focus is on the well-being of its users, not just resolving the narrow issue at bar

The Power of Compassion in the Court: Healing on Both Sides of the Bench

Every day in courtrooms around the globe, judges face a regular diet of difficult and emotional cases involving human misery and heart-wrenching circumstances that wear on a judge’s psyche and tolerance. Despite the nature of the cases, judges are expected to remain stoically neutral and unemotional to render fair and unbiased decisions. However, it is unreasonable to expect a human being, who happens to be a judge, to be emotionally unmoved by the plight of a young mother who turns to shoplifting and prostitution to feed her children; or the young man, raised in foster homes, with little education, guidance or hope, who deals street drugs to survive. Judges cannot help but absorb the despair they hear and be affected by the suffering around them. Research has established the detrimental impact on an individual’s health, relationships, professional performance, and long-term quality of life from continued exposure to dramatic accounts of cruelty and harm in other professions. Judges should be aware, they are not immune, and are in fact at risk for developing secondary trauma. Large caseloads and the inherent isolation of life on the bench can also contribute to trauma. Training in the use of therapeutic and compassionate approaches will enable judges to craft healthier outcomes for those appearing before the court while cogently relieving judicial trauma

Reading materials for the gifted child in the second grade

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University, 1946. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

MUSCLE TRAINING FOR PECTORAL CINEPLASTY

Amputation through the upper arm produces the dual problem in any prosthetic replacement of restoring elbow flexion as well as closing the terminal hand unit. These two actions can be separately provided in a long above-elbow amputation by using stump flexion or abduction to activate the elbow mechanism and a shoulder harness for the hand movements. It is in the short above-elbow stump or shoulder disarticulation, where stump function is severely reduced, that an extra motor is required to work in conjunction with the shoulder harness. Pectoral cineplasty is reserved for these short humeral stump patients who may then independently activate the hand unit by the pectoral muscle motor while flexing the elbow by shrugging the shoulder

Introducing a virtual emergency operations center into a higher education curriculum

At West Texas A&M University, faculty members in the Criminal Justice and Emergency Management programs teach students how to deal with man-made and natural disasters. These program courses require students to learn about the National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) in addition to passing certain requirements. Each student must pass NIMS courses 100 and 200 as part of their coursework where students are given the opportunity to work through a table-top exercise involving a natural or man-made disaster. Over the past several years, due to the success of these exercises, one of the criminal justice professors proposed a funding project to create a classroom designed for crisis management exercises in the future. This article conveys important qualitative discussions in two significant areas: how the crisis management classroom was created, designed, and integrated into the emergency operations center for the Texas Panhandle; and how the crisis management classroom was provided with the opportunity to integrate a virtual emergency operations center (VEOCI), making West Texas A&M University the fifth university in the United States to have access to the new virtual management system

Perceptions of linguistically responsive teaching in teacher candidates/novice teachers

This qualitative study examined data from 36 teacher candidates and novice teachers to explore their perceptions and understandings of linguistic responsiveness. The findings illustrate the challenge of demonstrating linguistically responsive teaching practices in the early and initial stages of entering the teaching profession, and more research is necessary to understand how to support teachers. Includes supplemental materials

Stress and adolescent hippocampal neurogenesis: diet and exercise as cognitive modulators

Adolescence is a critical period for brain maturation. Deciphering how disturbances to the central nervous system at this time affect structure, function and behavioural outputs is important to better understand any long-lasting effects. Hippocampal neurogenesis occurs during development and continues throughout life. In adulthood, integration of these new cells into the hippocampus is important for emotional behaviour, cognitive function and neural plasticity. During the adolescent period, maturation of the hippocampus and heightened levels of hippocampal neurogenesis are observed, making alterations to neurogenesis at this time particularly consequential. As stress negatively affects hippocampal neurogenesis, and adolescence is a particularly stressful time of life, it is important to investigate the impact of stressor exposure at this time on hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive function. Adolescence may represent not only a time for which stress can have long-lasting effects, but is also a critical period during which interventions, such as exercise and diet, could ameliorate stress-induced changes to hippocampal function. In addition, intervention at this time may also promote life-long behavioural changes that would aid in fostering increased hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive function. This review addresses both the acute and long-term stress-induced alterations to hippocampal neurogenesis and cognition during the adolescent period, as well as changes to the stress response and pubertal hormones at this time which may result in differential effects than are observed in adulthood. We hypothesise that adolescence may represent an optimal time for healthy lifestyle changes to have a positive and long-lasting impact on hippocampal neurogenesis, and to protect against stress-induced deficits. We conclude that future research into the mechanisms underlying the susceptibility of the adolescent hippocampus to stress, exercise and diet and the consequent effect on cognition may provide insight into why adolescence may be a vital period for correct conditioning of future hippocampal function