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Witt, Joseph C.; VanDerHeyden, Amanda M.; Gilbertson, Donna – School Psychology Review, 2004
This article describes a systematic process for finding and resolving problems with classroom-based behavioral interventions in schools. Described is a step by step process for identifying and resolving issues that reduce intervention effectiveness. The article is organized around the Behavioral Intervention Troubleshooter, which is a checklist…
Descriptors: Intervention, Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
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Zambo, Debby; Brem, Sarah – Reading Psychology an international quarterly, 2004
As educators, we need to change the way we think about cognition and emotion, especially for children who struggle to read. Emotion and cognition work in parallel in subtle and powerful ways. In this article, we explore the relationship between emotion and cognition in a group of children with reading disabilities in grades five through nine. We…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Children, Emotional Response, Check Lists
Denney, Kathy A.; Van Gorder, Charles H. – Principal Leadership, 2004
The increasing reliance on harsh punitive approaches, such as zero tolerance policies, for school discipline makes procedural and substantive protections for students a timely issue. When zero tolerance policies are applied to behavior that does not threaten the immediate safety or welfare of others, they can have a negative impact on the welfare…
Descriptors: Discipline, Zero Tolerance Policy, Teamwork, Advocacy
Borko, Hilda; Stecher, Brian; Kuffner, Karin – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2007
This document includes the final data collection and scoring tools created by the "Scoop" project, a five-year project funded through the Center for Evaluation, Standards,and Student Testing (CRESST), to develop an alternative approach for characterizing classroom practice. The goal of the project was to use artifacts and related materials to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Testing, Faculty Development, Educational Change
DeVries, Arlene R.; Webb, James T. – Great Potential Press, Inc., 2007
This manual provides the essential information for persons wishing to conduct SENG Model parent support groups for parents of gifted children. Each week, parents in the group read a chapter of "A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children," and then discuss the concepts in the chapter, led by the group facilitator. Parents support one another in practicing…
Descriptors: Gifted, Social Support Groups, Group Activities, Parents
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Spanoudis, George; Natsopoulos, Demetrios; Panayiotou, Georgia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: Pragmatic language impairment has recently been the subject of a number of studies that attempted to illuminate classification and diagnostic issues, and identify the profile of children with pragmatic language difficulties. Although much progress has been made, the nature of pragmatic difficulties remains unclear. Aims: To contrast…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Verbs, Semantics, Pragmatics
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Leung, C.; Lindsay, G.; Lo, S. K. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2007
Early identification of children experiencing difficulties in learning is essential for timely and effective intervention. The aim of this study was to develop a screening instrument for identifying students with learning difficulties at the end of the first term of Primary 1 in Hong Kong. This paper describes the development and validation of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Problems, Identification, Check Lists
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Berg, Anne T.; Vickrey, Barbara G.; Testa, Francine M.; Levy, Susan R.; Shinnar, Shlomo; DiMario, Francis – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2007
Behavioral and related disorders are frequently reported in association with childhood epilepsy but the reasons for this are unclear. In a long-term prospective, community-based study of newly-diagnosed childhood epilepsy, behavioral assessments (Child Behavior Checklist) were performed in children 8 to 9 years after the initial diagnosis of…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Siblings, Epilepsy, Child Behavior
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Grey, Ian M.; McClean, Brian – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
Background: Effectively supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities who display challenging behaviours continues to be a priority for service providers. Person-focused training (PFT) is a model of service delivery which provides staff with skills in functional assessment and intervention development. Existing longitudinal data from a…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Mental Retardation, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Severity (of Disability)
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Rubin, David M.; O'Reilly, Amanda L. R.; Luan, Xianqun; Localio, A. Russell – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: The problems children have upon entering foster care can potentially explain prior research findings that frequent placement changes are associated with poor outcomes. This study sought to disentangle this cascading relationship in order to identify the independent impact of placement stability on behavioral outcomes downstream.…
Descriptors: Placement, Probability, Child Behavior, Check Lists
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Evansm, Allison Schettini; Spirito, Anthony; Celio, Mark; Dyl, Jennifer; Hunt, Jeffrey – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2007
Substance abuse is one of the most problematic health risk behaviors among adolescents. Given that research consistently finds increased levels of substance use among adolescents with conduct problems as well as trauma-related symptoms, it is important that substance abuse be examined to better understand its role in Conduct Disorder (CD) and…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Violence, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Adolescents
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Ivanova, Masha Y.; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Erol, Nese; Fombonne, Eric; Fonseca, Antonio Castro; Frigerio, Alessandra; Grietens, Hans; Hannesdottir, Helga; Kanbayashi, Yasuko; Lambert, Michael; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Larsson, Bo; Leung, Patrick; Liu, Xianchen; Minaei, Asghar; Mulatu, Mesfin S.; Novik, Torunn S.; Oh, Kyung Ja; Roussos, Alexandra; Sawyer, Michael; Simsek, Zeynep; Dumenci, Levent; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Metzke, Christa Winkler; Wolanczyk, Tomasz; Yang, Hao-Jan; Zilber, Nelly; Zukauskiene, Rita; Verhulst, Frank C.; Rescorla, Leslie A.; Almqvist, Fredrik; Weintraub, Sheila; Bilenberg, Niels; Bird, Hector; Chen, Wei J. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2007
There is a growing need for multicultural collaboration in child mental health services, training, and research. To facilitate such collaboration, this study tested the 8-syndrome structure of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in 30 societies. Parents' CBCL ratings of 58,051 6- to 18-year-olds were subjected to confirmatory factor analyses,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Cooperation, Child Behavior
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Gunter, Robert E. – Technology Teacher, 2007
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS], n.d.) has shown that workers involved in accidents have little, if any, instruction on the equipment they were using while injured. Keep in mind that instruction on the safe operation of a piece of equipment may take place early in the school year,…
Descriptors: Laboratory Procedures, Technology Education, Laboratory Safety, Technological Literacy
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Madigan, Sheri; Moran, Greg; Schuengel, Carlo; Pederson, David R.; Otten, Roy – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Attachment theory's original formulation was substantially driven by Bowlby's (1969/1982) quest for a meaningful model of the development of psychopathology. Bowlby posited that aberrant experiences of parenting increase the child's risk of psychopathological outcomes, and that these risks are mediated by the quality of the attachment…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Toddlers, Infants
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Woodard, Cooper; Groden, June; Goodwin, Matthew; Bodfish, James – Autism: The International Journal of Research & Practice, 2007
We used a mixed group/single-case, double-blind, placebo-controlled, ABAB design to examine the safety and efficacy of the glutamate antagonist dextromethorphan for the treatment of problematic behaviors and core symptoms in eight children diagnosed with autism. All participants had increased levels of irritability at baseline as measured by the…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Behavior Problems, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Children
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