Some problems in junior high school English

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

Alien Registration- Kearney, Mary (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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Reflexivity and the Guidance Counsellor

Reflexivity is one of those buzz words that gets bandied about in a field such as guidance counselling. It is not always clear what is meant by it. It might be of some help to unravel the term “reflexivity” somewhat and see what it might have to offer guidance practitioners

Facilitating transformative learning. Department of Adult and Community Education NUI Maynooth

This report is about research carried out with sixty-two tutors who have worked on the Certificate in Counselling Skills at the Department of Adult and Community Education, NUI Maynooth. This course is a foundation-level course, conducted at NUI Maynooth and at outreach centres throughout the Republic of Ireland, and it has attracted over 14,000 students since it began in 1984. It has developed within a context where the profession of counselling has emerged as separate from psychology, and in a social context of a growing awareness of the role of counseling. The course is also unique in the field of counseling education, in that it has adopted from the start an educational stance rather than a therapeutic one. All the course tutors are qualified and, for the most part, practising counsellors. Many who were core to the course in its early days were also heavily involved in establishing the Irish Association for Counselling and Therapy (IACT), now the Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP)

Nurses\u27 Alumnae Association Bulletin - Volume 2 Number 1

March of Activities Treasurer\u27s Report It\u27s a Date Loyalty Coming Events Jefferson News In Florida for Winter The A.N.A. Convention Greetings! Keeping Up the Fight Eight Hour Committee Nurses Wanted Class of 1926 Convention Notes Attention Members Pine Street News Class of 1915 Class of 1916 Fifth Anniversary Prize Winners - 1932 Class of 1940 Owners of Scrap Books Sick List - 1939 and 1940 A Program of Nursing Information Please Private Duty Section Excerpts from Alumnae Minutes Staff News Please Remember Personals Engagements Marriages Deaths Hospital News Ballot for Officers Recent Births Lest You Forget! Please Change My Addres

Clinical outcomes and patterns of severe late toxicity in the era of chemo-radiation for cervical cancer

Background: We present a comprehensive analysis of both therapy-induced severe late toxicity and outcome in a cohort of cervical cancer patients following radiation who were treated according to current guidelines and discuss the methodologic problems of systematically reporting these cases. We introduce a revised concept of reporting treatment failure. Patients and methods: The records of 128 cervical cancer patients who received radiation from 2003 to 2008 were reviewed. Results: Thirteen patients (10.2%) developed severe late toxicity. The combination of heavy smoking and cardiovascular diseases was found to be a significant contributing factor (HR 6.55, 95% CI 0.99-43.49, p=0.048). Thirty patients (23.4%) experienced treatment failure. Of these, 12 (9.4%) were defined to have persistent disease, and 18 (14.0%) developed recurrent disease. Patients with recurrent disease had significantly better survival time (p<0.001). Compared with the persistence subgroup, they had significantly more often multiple sites of relapse (66.7 vs. 8.3%, p=0.002) and the sites were more often diagnosed outside the pelvis (70.7 vs. 7.7%, p<0.001). Early disease stages (OR 4.46, 95% CI 1.87-10.63, p<0.001) and severe late toxicity (p=0.037) were found to be significant factors for an improved disease-free survival. Conclusions: A comprehensive depiction of both late therapy-related toxicity and treatment failure requires precise clinical descriptions and analyses of the clinical courses. Our new concept to differentiate treatment failure following radiotherapy in cervical cancer into persistent and recurrent disease permits a clear differentiation between distinct subgroups of patients with regard to prognosis and clinical presentation and will lead to a more precise description of these cases in the futur

Creation of a Sudden Cardiac Arrest Safety Net

Background: More than 350,000 episodes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) occur annually in the United States, with less than half of the victims receiving bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Provision of bystander CPR has been noted to increase survival rates two to three-fold; however, bystander CPR is initiated in less than 50 % of out of OHCA episodes in the United States.Aim: The purpose of this pilot study was to create a sudden cardiac arrest safety net on a college campus. The American Heart Association (AHA) CPR in Schools Program© was provided to college students, athletes, faculty and staff.Method: A multi-group educational intervention with a pre- and post-test design. Results: Participant knowledge level of CPR and AED use significantly improved on the post test. Additionally, after attending the sessions participants reported an increase in comfort level performing CPR and improved knowledge of the locations of the AEDs on campus. As a result of the program, nine additional AED’s have been placed in high-traffic areas on campus.Conclusion: Empowering laypersons with the skills and knowledge to respond to potential episodes of OHCA are integral steps towards improving patient outcomes

Assessing the language skills of children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: The expressive vocabulary performance of Singaporean English-Mandarin bilingual preschoolers

Standardized language assessments such as the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Pre-school 2 United Kingdom (CELF Preschool 2 UK) are often used in speech-language pathology clinics to determine if a child is at risk of language difficulties. Many of these assessments are designed and standardized for use with monolingual Standard English-speaking children. It is thus recommended that these assessments should only be used with the populations they were designed for; if not test bias might result. However, such tests are still selected and used in the clinics of many multicultural and multilinguistic communities (e.g., Singapore). This research aimed to explore the performance of 79 Singaporean English-Mandarin pre-school children on the Expressive Vocabulary (EV) sub-test of the CELF Preschool 2 UK and to determine if their performance on the EV sub-test accurately reflected their language abilities by comparing their performance on a local screening language assessment tool, the Singapore English Action Picture Test (SEAPT). Results showed that local children performed poorly as compared to their UK counterparts. Two plausible reasons for the findings are: (1) the sub-test elicited only a single measure in English which ignored the language abilities of these bilingual children in their second language; and (2) the presence of culturally and linguistically biased test items

A preliminary report on the English phonology of typically developing English-Mandarin bilingual preschool Singaporean children

Background: There are no published data on typical phonological development for Singaporean children. There is therefore the risk that children's speech in Singapore may be misdiagnosed or that clinicians may set goals erroneously. Aims This paper reports a preliminary study on the English phonology of typically developing 4;0–4;5-year-old Chinese Singaporean children who speak English and Mandarin. Method & Procedures Seventy children were recruited throughout Singapore, and speech samples were collected in English using the Phonology Assessment of the Diagnostic Evaluation of Articulation and Phonology (DEAP). The participants were divided equally into two groups: English-dominant and Mandarin-dominant. Their speech samples were compared with British English targets (BT) and Singapore English targets (ST) in terms of phonological accuracy and types of phonological processes used. Outcomes & Results The results showed that Singaporean children's phonological accuracy scores increased significantly when scored against ST instead of BT. When scored against ST, English-dominant children were found to perform similarly to their DEAP counterparts. However, Mandarin-dominant children had significantly less accurate consonant production in English and exhibited more interference effects from Mandarin phonology than English-dominant children. Conclusions & Implications In this preliminary study, the results highlight the importance of speech and language therapists using local dialect pronunciations to be the target of speech assessments so as to provide appropriate assessment and intervention. It is also essential to account for the language background and language dominance of the children. More local normative data are needed for the typical acquisition of Singapore English in children, especially for children whose dominant language is not English