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Comparison of fractionated reaction time between cerebral palsied and non-handicapped youth

Creator:: Parks, Susan T.
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to study the effects of cerebral palsy on the ability to plan and execute a gross motor movement, as measured by the fractionation of Simple Reaction Time (SRT) into its premotor (central) and motor (peripheral) components. The experimental task required subjects (N = 10...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: young inactive group than to the old inactive group in both the SRT and CRT tasks. The authors

A theoretical design of rational autonomy : integrating elementary and early childhood teacher education through a contemporary derivation from Maria Montessori's social cognitive field paradigm

Creator:: Mitchener, Virginia Wedler
Abstract:: The individual through earliest recorded history reveals contradictory views of the human life-span. "Am I a free and unique individual, able to make choices and decide my own destiny?, or, "Am I only a victim of circumstance, a speck of dust in the universe's whirlwind of fate?" Each view is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: must make choices. Allowing the young student to progress on the road to autonomy, requires a new

Reform in undergraduate physical education major programs in the United States and in Japan

Creator:: Takeshita, Shunichi
Abstract:: Undergraduate physical education major programs in the United States and Japan were compared in terms of reform during the period 1972-74 to 1988-90. Two kinds of reform were studied: (1) change from single-track professional preparation to multiple-track preparation and (2) change from a nonacademic discipline-based program to an entirely academic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Physical Education was formed (Park, 1989). This organization, which Edward Hitchcock helped form, was

Gender differences in the perceptions of sexual abuse

Creator:: Sandras, Eric
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to explore gender differences in adult perceptions of sexual abuse encounters between an adult male and children of both genders and of various ages. Subjects were four hundred and fifty three students from a northwestern university. They were recruited from a lower-level human development...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: nearly 95 percent of the abusers of young girls and 80 percent of the abusers of young boys

Fathers' perceptions of their role and interest in parent education

Creator:: Van Elswyk, Brent Alan
Abstract:: The major purposes of this study were to describe paternal attitudes toward fathering and parent education and to then explore the relationships among these attitudes and interests. Specifically, the study attempted to relate traditional/developmental attitudes of fathers to: (1) expressed interests in knowing more about child rearing; (2) willingness to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: societies (Rosaldo, 1974), the parent most responsible for the care of young children has been the mother

Exposure of preschool children to companion animals : impact on role-taking skills

Creator:: Bailey, Cindee
Abstract:: The importance of role-taking skills in the social development of children has been well documented. Further, it has been shown that children's development of role-taking skills is dependent upon the quantity and quality of social interactions which require the consideration of alternative perspectives. Given recent evidence of the importance of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: in young children. Taking the role of another involves cognitive inference about the other's

The effect of an integrated adapted physical education setting on the motor performance of preschool children with developmental delays

Creator:: Zittel, Lauriece L.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of an integrated adapted physical education setting on the motor performance of preschool children with developmental delays. Subjects in this study participated in segregated and integrated adapted physical education classes. During the integrated conditions, same-age peers without delays participated in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: his advisment and shared love for the study of young children, and Dr. Majorie Reed for her interest

Family literacy programs : can they make a difference in parenting?

Creator:: Bailey, Sandra J.
Abstract:: Parenting education is a process of providing information to parents on the challenges of parenting, services available for families, and ideas on how to interact with children. The federal Even Start family literacy program, designed to increase the educational opportunities of parents and children, has a strong parenting education component....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: improve educational opportunities for young children and their parents and increase self-sufficiency by

The experience of sibling relationships in the voices of children : systemic interviews of dyads following the trauma of sibling incest and its recovery

Creator:: Fontana, Lynn A.
Abstract:: This qualitative study investigated the sibling relationship as it was described through the voices of the children. Ten sibling dyads (brother-sister or brother-brother) involved in family treatment following the discovery of sibling incest were interviewed. Participants in this study were participants in an outpatient clinic in the Northwest during the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The experience of southeast Asian refugee families : an exploration of family identity

Creator:: Lynch, Maureen Jessica
Abstract:: Every year thousands of families experience a major life-changing event when they are torn from their homeland and become refugees. Little is known about how the refugee experience impacts the family and how members perceive it affects their sense of family identity. The construct of family identity as proposed by...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . I would also like to thank three young women who are fine examples of womanhood and who, in

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Comparison of fractionated reaction time between cerebral palsied and non-handicapped youth

A theoretical design of rational autonomy : integrating elementary and early childhood teacher education through a contemporary derivation from Maria Montessori's social cognitive field paradigm

Reform in undergraduate physical education major programs in the United States and in Japan

Gender differences in the perceptions of sexual abuse

Fathers' perceptions of their role and interest in parent education

Exposure of preschool children to companion animals : impact on role-taking skills

The effect of an integrated adapted physical education setting on the motor performance of preschool children with developmental delays

Family literacy programs : can they make a difference in parenting?

The experience of sibling relationships in the voices of children : systemic interviews of dyads following the trauma of sibling incest and its recovery

The experience of southeast Asian refugee families : an exploration of family identity

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