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Conway, Christopher M.; Pisoni, David B.; Anaya, Esperanza M.; Karpicke, Jennifer; Henning, Shirley C. – Developmental Science, 2011
Deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) represent an intriguing opportunity to study neurocognitive plasticity and reorganization when sound is introduced following a period of auditory deprivation early in development. Although it is common to consider deafness as affecting hearing alone, it may be the case that auditory deprivation leads to…
Descriptors: Deafness, Disadvantaged Environment, Assistive Technology, Auditory Perception
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Hickey, Dianne Kruse – Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 1983
Describes skill deficiencies exhibited by disadvantaged students and the types of students who would benefit from identification and remediation. (SK)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Interpersonal Competence
Senungetuk, Joseph E. – 1971
Written by an Eskimo who created all the book's art work, drawings, and illustrations, this narrative portrays the theme that prior to white contact the Eskimos had a complex, satisfying, technologically developed, and progressive culture which was immobilized, fragmented, and exploited by European invaders: hence the title--give or take a…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indians, Autobiographies, Communication Problems
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Grietens, Hans; Geeraert, Liesl; Hellinckx, Walter – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2004
Objective: The aim was to construct and test the reliability (utility, internal consistency, interrater agreement) and the validity (internal validity, concurrent validity) of a scale for home visiting social nurses to identify risks of physical abuse and neglect in mothers with a newborn child. Method: A 71-item scale was constructed based on a…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Nurses, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Boyd, Virlyn A.; Morgan, Carolyn A. – 1966
A group of rural sociologists initiated this 1958-1965 research project for the purpose of increasing knowledge about social and economic adjustments of low-income people in the rural areas of the South. Factors found to be associated with the adjustment of low-income families and individuals were anomia, level-of-living, joint decision making,…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Black Attitudes, Communication Problems, Community Action