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The Effects Of A Five-Day Therapeutic Horseback Riding Program On The Standing And/Or Sitting Balance Of Children Ages 8-18 With A Wide Variety Of Disabling Diagnoses As Measured By The Functional Reach Test And The Modified Functional Reach Test, Richard A. Chaperon, Pamela A. Staszewski, Heather L. Vavrina Jan 1998

The Effects Of A Five-Day Therapeutic Horseback Riding Program On The Standing And/Or Sitting Balance Of Children Ages 8-18 With A Wide Variety Of Disabling Diagnoses As Measured By The Functional Reach Test And The Modified Functional Reach Test, Richard A. Chaperon, Pamela A. Staszewski, Heather L. Vavrina

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect that a five-day horseback riding program had on the standing and/or sitting balance of children ages eight to eighteen afflicted with a variety of disabling diagnoses. The stated hypothesis is that after participating in a five-day session of therapeutic riding, subjects will show significant improvement in standing and/or sitting balance as measured by the Functional Reach Test (FRT) and the Modified Functional Reach Test (MFRT). The 15 subjects tested using FRT and the 17 subjects tested using the MFRT were all participants of the Cheff Center riding program. Subjects were …

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Unlv College Of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter, Steve Mccafferty, John Filler, Le Ann Putney, Kyle Higgins, Porter Troutman, Stanley Zehm, Cyndi Giorgis, Jack Starr, Sheila Gregory, Joyce Nelson-Leaf Jan 1998

Unlv College Of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter, Steve Mccafferty, John Filler, Le Ann Putney, Kyle Higgins, Porter Troutman, Stanley Zehm, Cyndi Giorgis, Jack Starr, Sheila Gregory, Joyce Nelson-Leaf

College of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter

As educators and future educators, we will be working with students from diverse groups and all walks of life. Many of us enter this field entrenched in our own culture with no real understanding of how others' life experiences have influenced their values and beliefs. The multicultural courses in the College of Education force us to examine how we came to adopt our values and from where our beliefs originated. No other course in the graduate curriculum forces us to challenge the myths and stereotypes of American society as profoundly as these courses.

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Unlv College Of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter, Steve Mccafferty, John Filler, Nancy P. Gallavan, Le Ann Putney, Nancy Sileo, Kyle Higgins, Porter Troutman, Stanley Zehm, Cyndi Giorgis, Aimee Govett, Jack Starr, Bill Pankratius, Sheila Gregory, Susan Rumann, Joyce Nelson-Leaf Jan 1998

Unlv College Of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter, Steve Mccafferty, John Filler, Nancy P. Gallavan, Le Ann Putney, Nancy Sileo, Kyle Higgins, Porter Troutman, Stanley Zehm, Cyndi Giorgis, Aimee Govett, Jack Starr, Bill Pankratius, Sheila Gregory, Susan Rumann, Joyce Nelson-Leaf

College of Education Multicultural & Diversity Newsletter

Join us on November 12, 13, and 14, 1998 at the Orleans Hotel and Casino for the 1st Annual Multicultural Conference & Luncheon sponsored by NvNAME (the Nevada chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education.) The 1998 Multicultural Education conference will feature keynote addresses by: Mr. Herbert R. Stevens, Director of the San Carlos Apache Tribal Cultural Center; Dr. G. Pritchy Smith, Professor from the University of North Florida; Dr. Rudolfo Chavez Chavez, Professor from New Mexico State University; Mr. Charles E. Pace, Scholar with the Chataqua Public Humanities, Dr. Sam Chan, Professor from the California School of …

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Revealing Confidential Secrets: Will It Save Our Children?, Karen L. Ross Jan 1998

Revealing Confidential Secrets: Will It Save Our Children?, Karen L. Ross

Seton Hall Law Review

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The Becca Bill Would Not Have Saved Becca: Washington State's Treatment Of Young Female Offenders, Tiffany Zwicker Eggers Jan 1998

The Becca Bill Would Not Have Saved Becca: Washington State's Treatment Of Young Female Offenders, Tiffany Zwicker Eggers

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

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Lethal Pity: The Oregon Death With Dignity Act, Its Implications For The Disabled, And The Struggle For Equality In An Able-Bodied World, Mark C. Siegel Jan 1998

Lethal Pity: The Oregon Death With Dignity Act, Its Implications For The Disabled, And The Struggle For Equality In An Able-Bodied World, Mark C. Siegel

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

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As Justice Requires/Permits: The Delimitation Of Harmful Speech In A Democratic Society, John A. Powell Jan 1998

As Justice Requires/Permits: The Delimitation Of Harmful Speech In A Democratic Society, John A. Powell

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

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Empowerment For The Pursuit Of Happiness: Parents With Disabilities And The Americans With Disabilities Act, Dave Shade Jan 1998

Empowerment For The Pursuit Of Happiness: Parents With Disabilities And The Americans With Disabilities Act, Dave Shade

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

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Implementation Of Least Restrictive Environment (Lre) In Nevada Rural Schools According To The Rachel H Standard, Laurie Magee Flanders Jan 1998

Implementation Of Least Restrictive Environment (Lre) In Nevada Rural Schools According To The Rachel H Standard, Laurie Magee Flanders

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Public Law 94-142, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act (1975); Public Law 101-476, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (1990); and Public Law 105-17, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 require that all disabled students be placed in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) in their educational settings; In 1994 the Ninth Circuit Court established the Rachel H. Standard, which provides a guide for school districts in determining the Least Restrictive Environment for their disabled students. All school districts within the authority of the Ninth Circuit must comply with the standard set forth in Sacramento City Unified …

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Critical Incidents In The Gaming Industry: Perceptions Of Guests And Employees, Lesley Jeanne Johnson Jan 1998

Critical Incidents In The Gaming Industry: Perceptions Of Guests And Employees, Lesley Jeanne Johnson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

During the service encounter or "moment of truth" the customer judges the quality of the service organization. Not all guest-employee service encounters, however, are equally important. For every organization there are probably particular. service encounters that are critical to customer satisfaction. Before they can initiate efforts to service their customers, service firms must first identify and manage critical service encounters. Using the environment of the gaming industry, this exploratory research investigated the concept of identifying and evaluating critical service encounters from the perspectives of both guests and customer-contact employees and measured the level of congruence/incongruence between the two parties involved …

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The Relationship Of Teacher Cognitive Style And Teacher Job Satisfaction, Moderated By Administrator Management Style, Holly Shella Jaacks Jan 1998

The Relationship Of Teacher Cognitive Style And Teacher Job Satisfaction, Moderated By Administrator Management Style, Holly Shella Jaacks

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Success as a school administrator strongly depends upon the complex interplay of teacher cognitive style, teacher satisfaction on the job, and the effectiveness of the principal's administrative management style. Nonetheless, the supervision of teachers within their cognitive style has had little research or attention given to it. According to the literature, administrative management style greatly influences teachers perceptions of satisfaction on the job. A wide variety of variables, directly impacted by administrative management style, influence a teachers degree of job satisfaction; This study surveyed teacher's cognitive style, as determined by Witkin's Field Dependence, Field Independence model utilizing the Group Embedded …

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Family And Service Coordinator Agreements In The Development And Implementation Of The Individualized Family Service Plan (Ifsp), Byoung-In Lee Jan 1998

Family And Service Coordinator Agreements In The Development And Implementation Of The Individualized Family Service Plan (Ifsp), Byoung-In Lee

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Part C of Public Law 105-17 (originally Part H of Public Laws 99-457, 101-476, and 102-119), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1997, strengthened incentives to states to provide services for infants and toddlers, from birth to age three, who have disabilities or are at-risk for developmental delays. The law and its regulations require that the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) is a written plan for services to be developed and implemented for the child and family. Inclusion of family members as full participants in the design and implementation of services is emphasized; This study was designed to …

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Learning To Teach Literacy: A Beginning Kindergarten Teacher's Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Marla H Mallette Jan 1998

Learning To Teach Literacy: A Beginning Kindergarten Teacher's Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Marla H Mallette

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study focused on the learning to teach process of a beginning kindergarten teacher in the area of literacy through the investigation of her pedagogical content knowledge. Shulman (1986) described pedagogical content knowledge as "the ways of representing and formulating the subject that make it comprehensible to others" (p. 9). The purpose of the study was to explore how this teacher transformed her knowledge of literacy into pedagogy for the diverse students she taught. The participant in this study, Nancy Green, was a white female, aged, 43 with two children. Data were collected using multiple data sources including interviews, observations, …

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Neighborhood Councils: A Family-Driven Approach To Community Change, Merlinda Raquel Gallegos Jan 1998

Neighborhood Councils: A Family-Driven Approach To Community Change, Merlinda Raquel Gallegos

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Following times of social upheavals, especially when social tensions exist in ethnically diverse and lower class neighborhoods, the U.S. government has provided increased aid to the poor, and new community-based initiatives have emerged. This dissertation focuses on Nevada's neighborhood-based, community-driven, collaborative approach to providing services in low-income areas: Family Resource Centers. The purpose of this exploratory study is to develop strategies which will increase community participation in Nevada's Family Resource Centers' neighborhood councils; After two years of participant observation and the use of focus groups in four neighborhood councils, seven dimensions emerged concerning strategies to increase voluntary participation in neighborhood …

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Special Education Students: Which Ones Are Prepared To Receive A High School Diploma?, Rhoton Titus Hudson Jan 1998

Special Education Students: Which Ones Are Prepared To Receive A High School Diploma?, Rhoton Titus Hudson

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study sought to determine whether statistically significant differences between students with disabilities who pass and those who fail the Nevada High School Proficiency Examination are accounted for by demographic variables alone, or if they can also be attributed to educational variables. To establish the basis for this study, legislation such as IDEA and Goals 2000 was examined, recent literature was reviewed, and court cases involving testing students with disabilities on standardized and minimum competency tests were studied; The study follows 965 students with disabilities who were in the eleventh grade during the 1998--99 school year through five administrations of …

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The Effectiveness Of Traditional Instructional Methods In An Online Learning Environment, Steven Bradford Smith Jan 1998

The Effectiveness Of Traditional Instructional Methods In An Online Learning Environment, Steven Bradford Smith

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

For more than a century, the most predominant form of instruction in higher education has been classroom-based and instructor-led. Today, this traditional approach to learning is being challenged by new technologies such as multimedia, telecommunications, and the Internet. It has been suggested that the effectiveness of traditional pedagogical methods in alternative learning environments may be resolved through the creation of a new domain for educational interaction referred to as online education (Harasim, 1990); There has been much research focused on the advantages of teaching university courses online (Davis, Odell, Abbitt, Amos, 1999; Hiltz, 1994; Harasim, 1990). However, there is little …

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Towards A Pragmatics Of Poetic Metaphor, Catherine C. Kidwell Jan 1998

Towards A Pragmatics Of Poetic Metaphor, Catherine C. Kidwell

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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A Fatal Reaction : Generation X'S Expectations Of Violent Films, Keith B. Severson Jan 1998

A Fatal Reaction : Generation X'S Expectations Of Violent Films, Keith B. Severson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Gangs : Myth Or Reality : An Examination Of The Gang Phenomenon In A Metropolitan City In A Rural State As Presented By The Regional News Print Media, Gerard Kottenbrock Jan 1998

Gangs : Myth Or Reality : An Examination Of The Gang Phenomenon In A Metropolitan City In A Rural State As Presented By The Regional News Print Media, Gerard Kottenbrock

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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A Profile Of The Regional Finance Officer In The Roman Catholic Church, Jeffry Tescher Jan 1998

A Profile Of The Regional Finance Officer In The Roman Catholic Church, Jeffry Tescher

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Parent Satisfaction With And Participation In Their Children's Special Education Programs, Marcia C. Gums Jan 1998

Parent Satisfaction With And Participation In Their Children's Special Education Programs, Marcia C. Gums

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Reactions Of College Students To Male And Female Peers With Speech Disorders, Margo D. Alexander Jan 1998

Reactions Of College Students To Male And Female Peers With Speech Disorders, Margo D. Alexander

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Toward Effective And Ethical Drug Abuse Prevention Policies: The Case Against Indiscriminate Drug Testing, Robert Eugene Gladd Jan 1998

Toward Effective And Ethical Drug Abuse Prevention Policies: The Case Against Indiscriminate Drug Testing, Robert Eugene Gladd

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

For an increasing breadth of organizational domains, a negative illicit drug screen result has become the final and paramount criterion for admission and/or continuing participation. Such a policy is vigorously promoted to the private sector by government and vendors of testing services as an inexpensive and vital tool for suppressing drug abuse. This policy, however, can been shown to be at once empirically unwarranted, methodologically dubious, constitutionally impermissible, and ethically unsustainable. Reducing the harm attributable to illicit intoxication is a legitimate and worthy social goal. The ends, however, cannot justify such means of indiscriminate and intrusive surveillance.

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Striptease: An Anthropological View, Angela Lee Ramsey Jan 1998

Striptease: An Anthropological View, Angela Lee Ramsey

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This following study serves as an attempt to apply theoretical questions to the phenomenon of striptease. I argue that striptease can be more fully understood as an act guided by the rules of performance. Strippers, and to a lesser extent the audience, can then be seen as actors employing a fantasy phase to sustain their respective roles within the charade of performance sex. Strippers and audiences are also players within the concept of performance itself, meaning they are simultaneously subject to and authors of the phenomenon. Using a biosocial approach, I explore the psychological, cultural, and physiological, etc., cues that …

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Nhetoric: Rhetorical Power In Cyberspace, David Paul Schulz Jan 1998

Nhetoric: Rhetorical Power In Cyberspace, David Paul Schulz

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The Alpha group is a faction of the white supremacy movement that has established a virtual presence in cyberspace. Rhetorical strategies of agitation are practiced by the Alpha group on the World Wide Web in an effort to encourage visiting avatars to join the white supremacy movement. This study explores the rhetorical strategies of power and promulgation which Alpha uses in cyberspace. Analysis of Alpha's digital discourse provide an opportunity to understand and evaluate the unique potentials that information technologies such as the World Wide Web bring to the rhetorical environment.

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A Comparison Of Elite Tennis Players' Motor Abilities With Those Of Elite Basketball, Soccer And Volleyball Players, Sarit Shalev Jan 1998

A Comparison Of Elite Tennis Players' Motor Abilities With Those Of Elite Basketball, Soccer And Volleyball Players, Sarit Shalev

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The difference in certain motor abilities was tested among four different groups of athletes. Specifically, this study compared elite tennis players' reaction time (RT), movement time (MT) and agility (AG), to soccer, basketball and volleyball players' MT, RT and AG; Thirty-three subjects were tested in the Wingate laboratory and tennis court. The laboratory tests included 25 trials of foot RT and MT recordings for each subject. These tests were conducted on a highly sensitive metal plate (a force plate that detects sensitive movement, e.g., a foot lifted of the plate) attached to a computerized device that records the RT and …

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Impact On Employee Motivation Of Management's Perception Of What Employees Want From Their Work: An Application To The Ski Resort Industry, Lisa Anne Ward Jan 1998

Impact On Employee Motivation Of Management's Perception Of What Employees Want From Their Work: An Application To The Ski Resort Industry, Lisa Anne Ward

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This study explored the impact managers' perceptions had on the motivation of ski resort employees. Hotel properties in Vail Valley, Colorado served as the population for the study. The study examined what ski resort employees want from their work and established their orientation to work. The relationship between what employees identified they wanted from their work and their motivation orientation was explored. In addition, the managers' perceptions of what they perceived their employees wanted from their work was measured and compared to what employees identified they wanted from their work. The impact of managers' perceptions was further identified with a …

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Anorexia Nervosa: An Exploration Of Early- And Later-Onset, Jennifer Claire Duddy Jan 1998

Anorexia Nervosa: An Exploration Of Early- And Later-Onset, Jennifer Claire Duddy

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Children with anorexia nervosa have often been overlooked or misdiagnosed because of the lack of understanding and clarity surrounding early onset. This study was aimed to help clarify ambiguities by exploring the similarities and differences of early- and later-onset anorexia nervosa. Results from case studies of a female child, adolescent, and adult diagnosed with anorexia nervosa are presented. Findings from the case studies indicate several similarities between the two onsets such as comparable demographic characteristics, diagnostic features, symptoms of associated mental disorders, personality characteristics, and etiological factors. Findings also infer some differences that include variance in prognoses, severity of physical …

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Nursing Students' Aids Knowledge, Attitudes, Social Norms, And Intentions To Care For Aids Patients, Martin Medvejer Jan 1998

Nursing Students' Aids Knowledge, Attitudes, Social Norms, And Intentions To Care For Aids Patients, Martin Medvejer

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

In this study, a descriptive correlational design was used to examine relationships between nursing students' AIDS knowledge, attitudes, and subjective norms, with intention to care for AIDS patients using Ajzen-Fishbein's Theory of Reasoned Action. Two questionnaires were distributed to a convenience sample of 243 nursing students. The first questionnaire Beliefs About Caring for Persons who are HIV Positive developed by Laschinger and Goldenberg (1993) tested for attitudes and subjective norms as predictors of intended care with AIDS patients based on Ajzen-Fishbein's Theory of Reasoned Action and a second questionnaire AIDS/HIV Knowledge developed by Tessaro (1995) tested for nursing students knowledge …

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Indexing Androgyny: The Transgendered Phenomenon And Its Challenge To Ethnology, Christopher Todd White Jan 1998

Indexing Androgyny: The Transgendered Phenomenon And Its Challenge To Ethnology, Christopher Todd White

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis will focus on the life experiences of transsexual individuals living in the Las Vegas community. This is an ethnographic study that includes field research, extensive interviews, and library research; Through this study I hope to gain better insight as to what motivated these individuals to seek surgical sex reassignment. I wish to explore the similarities and differences between preoperative transsexuals and other transgendered persons, and I hope to tie the experiences of local transsexuals to the experiences of transsexuals in other parts of America in order to determine if there are any social or environmental conditions that may …

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