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Maitê Schneider; Carolina Prietto Ferrazza; Roberta Francieli da Silva Bomber; Felipe Picon; Diego Luiz Rovaris; Paulo Roberto Stefani Sanches; Danton Pereira; André Russowsky Brunoni; Joan A. Camprodon; Wolnei Caumo; Claiton Henrique Dotto Bau; Eugenio Horacio Grevet; Luis Augusto Rohde; Douglas Teixeira Leffa – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2025
Objective: Few trials in ADHD incorporate participant-centered outcomes that evaluate the impact of interventions on meaningful life activities. Additionally, in psychiatry, the translation of changes in symptom rating scales into meaningful impacts on participants' lives has been questioned. The Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adults, Goal Orientation, Intervention
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Man-Chi Lai; Yu-Feng Lin; Sheng-Wei Wang; Ching-Hsiang Shih – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2024
This study investigated the effectiveness of applying a smartphone to reduce the hyperactive/impulsive behaviors of 3 students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in class. A smartphone that can simultaneously provide vibration and visual text prompts was adopted in this study to remind the participants when they exhibited…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Prompting, Stimuli
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Charest, Jonathan; Marois, Alexandre; Bastien, Celyne H. – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Introduction: Previous studies have shown that student-athletes suffer from sleep difficulties. This study explored the impact of tDCS on sleep parameters among student-athletes. Method: Thirty student-athletes (15 females, 15 males, age 21.1 ± 2.1 years) were recruited. All participants underwent a series of questions to rule out depressive and…
Descriptors: Sleep, Foreign Countries, College Students, Athletes
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Han, Yvonne M.Y.; Chan, Melody M.Y.; Shea, Caroline K.S.; Mo, Flora Y.M.; Yiu, Klaire W.K.; Chung, Raymond C.K.; Cheung, Mei-Chun; Chan, Agnes S. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This triple-arm, double-blind, randomized clinical trial investigated the effect of multisession prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on social functioning in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A total of 105 individuals (age 14-21 years) diagnosed with ASD were randomized into the active-tDCS, sham-tDCS, and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Stimulation, Stimuli
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Lin-Stephens, Serene; Manuguerra, Maurizio; Tsai, Pei-Jung; Athanasou, James A. – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: Stories of employability are told in employment and educational settings, notably the selection interviews. A popular training approach guiding higher education students to construct employability stories has been the past-behaviour storytelling method. However, insufficient research exists regarding the method's effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Employment Interviews, Story Telling, Imagery, Personal Narratives
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Takemura, Atsushi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Science and technology education necessitates teaching and learning experiments involving electronic circuit construction and measurements using experimental equipment. In this study, a novel cross reality system for learning physical circuit construction and performing virtual experiments using virtual experimental equipment with mid-air haptics…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Electronic Equipment, Science Experiments
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Lazzaro, Giulia; Costanzo, Floriana; Varuzza, Cristiana; Rossi, Serena; De Matteis, Maria Elena; Vicari, Stefano; Menghini, Deny – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
Emerging evidence suggests that the combination of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and reading training may provide promising benefits for dyslexia; however, the clinical effects and the role of individual differences in tDCS outcomes for dyslexia remain unclear. To this end, the present study investigated the effects of tDCS on…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Stimuli
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Mon, Chit Su; Yap, Kian Meng; Ahmad, Azlina – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2021
Educational entertainment or edutainment is a popular approach to allow learners experience a fun learning environment while acquiring knowledge. Currently, this approach is widely used and has promising benefits, whereby not only it provides a fun learning environment but also cause learners to hardly notice the learning process. However, as…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Blindness, Students with Disabilities, Educational Technology
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Borges Silva, Maristella; Novais Shimano, Suraya Gomes; Lopes de Oliveira, Nuno Miguel – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to develop and implement an audio-tactile protocol for therapeutic intervention in individuals with visual impairments. Methods: The Physiotherapy Protocol for People with Visual Impairment (PP-PVI) was developed following five steps: physiotherapy evaluation, linguistic selection, protocol design,…
Descriptors: Physical Therapy, Intervention, Quality of Life, Visual Impairments
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Hamdan, Mohammed Akram – International Journal of Special Education, 2018
The present study aimed to develop a proposed training program based on DTT to improve the nonverbal communication skills in children with ASD. To achieve the objective of the study, the author developed a scale of non-verbal communication skills consisted of (20 items) measures attention and eye contact, imitation and using the signal,…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Nonverbal Communication, Communication Skills
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Crook, Nicola; Adams, Malcolm; Shorten, Nicola; Langdon, Peter E. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Background: This study investigated whether a personalized life story book and rummage box enhanced well-being and led to changes in behaviour for people with Down syndrome (DS) who have dementia. Materials and Methods: A randomized single case series design was used with five participants who had DS and a diagnosis of dementia. Participants were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Behavior Change, Down Syndrome, Dementia
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Chu, Szu-Yin – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2016
Current educational policy promotes the use of evidence-based practices to maximize children's learning outcomes. With the goal of enhancing a child's ability to learn functional language, the purpose of this study was to focus on involving families through the utilization of evidence-based intervention based upon the Applied Behaviour Analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Verbal Communication, Language Skills
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Tsesmeli, Styliani N.; Tsirozi, Theologia – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2015
The case-study aims to examine the effectiveness of training of morphological structure on the spelling of compounds by a spelling-disabled primary school student. The experimental design of the intervention was based on the word-pair paradigm and included a pre-test, a training program and a post-test (n = 50 pairs). The Training Program aimed to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary School Students, Learning Disabilities, Spelling
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Navarro, Jose I.; Marchena, Esperanza; Alcalde, Concepcion; Ruiz, Gonzalo – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2004
Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) has been shown to be an efficient learning-teaching procedure. Although there is an extensive educational software tradition using CAL approaches, few of them have demonstrated a better student performance than standard drill and practice methods. The purpose of this study was (a) to evaluate the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Program Effectiveness, Prompting