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UNLV/CSUN Preschool

At this community engagement site, the UNLV/CSUN Preschool, they address the absence of child care facilities and schools effort to adapt to every child’s individual needs in terms of health, development, and academics.https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/educ_fys_103/1041/thumbnail.jp

The Efficacy of Telepractice in the Assessment and Treatment of Speech Disorders: A Systematic Review

Purpose: Children and adults with speech disorders face numerous barriers in accessing traditional face-to-face services with a speech-language pathologist. Telepractice may be a feasible solution. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the efficacy of telepractice in the assessment and treatment of speech disorders in children and adults. Methods: Research articles were ascertained from Ovid MEDLINE, PsychInfo, and CINAHL using an established and consistent search strategy that utilized both medical subject headings and subject terms related to telepractice. The predetermined inclusion criteria included diagnosis of a speech disorder, participants across the lifespan, direct comparison of both delivery methods (i.e., telepractice to face-to-face), and objective outcome measures. Articles were excluded due to lack of speech disorder diagnosis, use of purely subjective outcome measures, and lack of direct comparison of delivery methods. Quality assessment was established by the authors using the criteria in the Assessing the Quality and Applicability of Systematic Reviews and a rating scale (i.e., \u27poor,\u27 \u27fair,\u27 \u27good,\u27 \u27strong\u27). Results: Electronic searches of the databases resulted in the acquisition of 16 full-text research studies, which were used in this systematic review. The quality of the studies ranged from \u27poor\u27 to \u27strong\u27 with a majority of the articles rated as \u27good.\u27 The studies explored telepractice efficacy in speech sound disorders, fluency disorders, dysarthria, apraxia, and voice disorders. Conclusions: Generally, the quality of intervention delivered via telepractice is comparable to traditional face-to-face therapy. Additional research involving diverse populations with varied levels of severity in natural environments is required to confirm the efficacy of the delivery method. It is imperative the use of telepractice is considered by each clinician on a per case basis.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/csdms/1007/thumbnail.jp

Variations on a theorem of Davenport concerning abundant numbers

Let \sigma(n) = \sum_{d \mid n}d be the usual sum-of-divisors function. In 1933, Davenport showed that that n/\sigma(n) possesses a continuous distribution function. In other words, the limit D(u):= \lim_{x\to\infty} \frac{1}{x}\sum_{n \leq x,~n/\sigma(n) \leq u} 1 exists for all u \in [0,1] and varies continuously with u. We study the behavior of the sums \sum_{n \leq x,~n/\sigma(n) \leq u} f(n) for certain complex-valued multiplicative functions f. Our results cover many of the more frequently encountered functions, including \varphi(n), \tau(n), and \mu(n). They also apply to the representation function for sums of two squares, yielding the following analogue of Davenport's result: For all u \in [0,1], the limit $$\tilde{D}(u):= \lim_{R\to\infty} \frac{1}{\pi R}\#\{(x,y) \in \Z^2: 0<x^2+y^2 \leq R \text{ and } \frac{x^2+y^2}{\sigma(x^2+y^2)} \leq u\}$$ exists, and \tilde{D}(u) is both continuous and strictly increasing on [0,1]

Concert recording 2017-03-09a

[Track 1]. Tangling shadows / Nathan Daughtrey -- [Track 2]. 5 Huapangos. 1. Santa Cruz [Track 3]. 2. Las islitas [Track 4].3. Miramar [Track 5].4. Ofelia [Track 6].5. El llano / Mark Curtis -- [Track 7].Pastorale / Igor Stravinsky -- [Track 8]. Dream gardens / Robert Muller -- [Track 9-10]. Daughter of the sea. II. Your hand flew from my eyes [Track 11]. IV. You are the daughter of the sea / Andrea Clearfield -- [Tracks 12-14]. Quartett in F / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

White Rabbit: Embodying the Old and New in an Artistic Wonderland of Free Expression

White Rabbit gallery is a site dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary Chinese art post-2000, realised through the notions of modernity and postmodernism. Consisting of a body of Chinese artists spanning a vast array of backgrounds, the gallery effectively represents China’s art in its highest form, with works carefully selected for their originality and artistic professionalism by the gallery’s private owner Judith Nielson. These works instil a sense of awe in their viewers, whilst also expressing ideas on a deeper subversive level. White Rabbit gallery employs a profound general visitor discourse; extending an emphasis of attention on the visitor and ensuring their experience is one which aligns with ideals of modernity such as progress and renewal as represented through the gallery’s purchased level of work and incorporated capitalist structures including a gallery shop and teahouse. Exclusively housing contemporary Chinese art in a postmodern renovated knitting factory, the gallery further represents progress and hope for a world recovering from a global financial crisis in the utilisation of a site built in the wake of this crisis. Through the role of the gallery’s physical structure, its exclusive Chinese art content, and its experiential visitor discourse, notions regarding Marxist ideas on commodity fetishism and other theoretical perspectives on postmodern and modern spaces are revealed; the construct of the site further embodying Lyotard’s notion of the ‘nascent’ state from modernity to postmodernism. This article interrogates the modern and postmodern notions embodied by White Rabbit gallery in order for an understanding relevant to the present moment in which we live, as part of this modern and postmodern context, to be fully realised

Parents’ adverse childhood experiences in relation to parent-child emotion socialization

Parents’ adverse childhood experiences in relation to parent-child emotion socialization Objective: Parents have an integral role in a child’s development of important emotional and psychosocial processes through emotion socialization. The goal of this paper is to examine the presence of adverse childhood experiences during the parents’ childhood and adolescence alongside the parents’ responses to their child’s emotional expression. The impact of adverse childhood experiences on a parent’s ability to socialize their child’s emotions is a key factor in the continued objective of cultivating positive parent-child interaction and improving adolescent mental health. Methods: Participants were 165 adolescents and their parents. Adolescent participants had an age range of13 to 17 years, (M=14.56, SD= 1.34) and were 33% female. Participants completed several standard questionnaires as part of a larger online survey. Adolescents reported on how their parents typically respond to their negative emotions (Emotions as Child Questionnaire; O’Neal & Magai, 2005), and their parents reported on their exposure to adverse childhood events (ACE’s questionnaire). Results: Mediation analyses tested the study hypotheses regarding whether parent emotion dysregulation mediated the link between parent ACEs and parent emotion socialization responses (reward, punish). Covariates included parent and child gender, parent race, and parent education level. In the first model examining reward responses, there was an overall significant effect on parent reward and punishment responses. There was a significant indirect effect of parent ACEs on parent reward and parent punishment responses with parent emotion dysregulation as the mediator. Conclusion: Together, these findings suggest the value and necessity of healthy and stable emotion regulation, especially in parents. The present study shows a need for the recognition of the impact that a parent\u27s ability to successfully regulate their own emotions has on their ability to effectively respond to their children’s emotions. Additionally, stable parent child emotion socialization outcomes improve the child’s ability to self- regulate emotions which ultimately makes an insurmountable impact on children’s mental health throughout the lifespan

The Stigmatization of Hunger: The Impact of Social Stigma on Arkansas Youths’ Food Security

In Arkansas, 26.3% of children are food insecure, meaning they do not have enough or lack the ability to obtain enough food for adequate nutrition (Miller 2019). In recent years, a new phenomenon has been taking place called lunch shaming where children are sometimes forced to wear signs or handstamps that say the child’s lunch account is overdue. This research analyzes how the media frames food insecurity and how perceived social stigmas affect a student’s willingness to seek out help when struggling with food security