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Diagnostic Considerations In The Identification Of The Hyperactive Child, Barbara Jagoda Draheim
Diagnostic Considerations In The Identification Of The Hyperactive Child, Barbara Jagoda Draheim
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
The hyperactive disorder of childhood and the enumeration of its features were described in two papers published in the mid-1950's, by Laufer and his colleagues (Laufer, 1957; Laufer, Denhoff & Solomons, 1956). It was a list that has since become familiar; short attention span, impulsivity, irritability, low frustration tolerance, poor academic achievement, and visual-motor difficulties. Like many who have since searched for definers of the syndrome, Laufer and his colleagues remarked upon the perplexing variability displayed by these children, and they noted that no single symptom could be considered diagnostic. They described the development of "secondary psychological difficulties" due to …
Single...Chance Or Choice, Karen Robinson
Single...Chance Or Choice, Karen Robinson
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
"It is said to be the largest unrecognized minority group in America, but it has no lobbying efforts, central organization or focus. The group is singles - divorced, widowed or never married - and there is an estimated l 190,000 of them in Kansas City Area." One out of every three adults in the United States is single. That is 43 million. Yet in spite of their great numbers, single people find that social pressures still call for "settling down" and raising a family.