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Roadmap For Un 2030 Education Agenda For Learners With Special Educational Needs Of Department Of Education, Pangasinan Division Ii, Philippines, Donato Balderas, Marites Tabuga, Jupiter Lopez Petilla

Journal of ICSAR

The UN 2030 Education Agenda is a global platform directed towards creating opportunities for learners with special educational needs (LSENs) for their holistic development and eventual mainstreaming in the society. The schools being the catalysts of societal transformation are focal points for the provision of instruction and intervention that emphasize inclusion, equity and gender equality among learners. Policies, programs, activities as well teachers’ training and orientation must be crafted to address the proper mainstreaming and placement of LSENs that will prepare them for self-independence and enhancement of their skills while ensuring that incidents of gender bias and bullying is eliminated, …

Improving The Interpersonal Intelligence Of The Students With Intellectual Disability Through The Bcct Approach, Yuana Maulidia, Sopingi Sopingi, Usep Kustiawan

Journal of ICSAR

Children with intellectual disability have a slow social development. Such as the interpersonal aspects of intelligence. The learning approach that can be used is Beyond Centers And Circle Time (BCCT) approach. The purpose is to describe interpersonal intelligence before and after being given the treatment as well as analyze the effect of the approach Beyond Centers And Circle Time approach interpersonal intelligence intellectual disability. The method used was Quasi-Experiment with Time Series Design and analysis with Wilcoxon test hypothesis. Based on the data analysis, It can be concluded that the BCCT approach effect significantly for the interpersonal intelligence of the …

The Effect Of Mingle Model To Improve Reading Skills For Students With Dyslexia In Primary School, Irdamurni Irdamurni, Kasiyati Kasiyati, Zulmiyetri Zulmiyetri, Johandri Taufan

Journal of ICSAR

Dyslexia is a cognitive process failure in acquiring information when reading. Children normally have been able to read at the age of 6 or 7 while children with dyslexia might still struggle with reading even when they reach 12. This research was conducted by mingle model in order to improve reading skills for dyslexic students in primary grades. The subjects selected were 23 students with dyslexia in primary grades. The research used purposive sampling and the data collected by conducting the reading test to the students. Descriptive analysis was performed as the method and intervention technique employed was mingle model. …

Brain Gym Video Model For Improving The Beginning Writing Abilities Of The Autistic Students, Ary Puspita Ningrum, Abdul Huda, Henry Praherdhiono

Journal of ICSAR

Language is a very necessary thing, especially in writing the beginning. Beginning the writing requires a fine motor ability wich adequate. The fine motor in the students with an intellectual disability is impaired so requiring movement that can coordinate motoric. Brain gym is a simple movement that can be used to train cognitive, motor and flexibility the small muscles of the fingers and coordinates the brain with the shoulders, arms, and eyes. The purpose of this research is to produce brain gymnastics. This video is packaged in CD format which is expected to help students to write the beginning. The …

The Effectiveness Of Augmentative And Alternative Communication Application Implementation In Improving Student With Autism Verbal Communication, Nurul Aina Nazri, Aliza Alias

Journal of ICSAR

Augmentative and Alternative Communication is widely used in the educational context as a learning aid for improving verbal communication among students. The aims of this research are to study the effectiveness of Augmentative and Alternative Communication implementation in improving students with autism verbal communication. This research was conducted at one of the primary school in Machang, Kelantan. 2 students with autism participate in this study as a respondent and divided into treatment group and controlled group. Pre and post-tests were conducted to collect and analyze data. Finding in this research shows there was a significant difference between the pre and …

Roadmap For Un 2030 Education Agenda For Learners With Special Educational Needs Of Department Of Education, Pangasinan Division Ii, Philippines, Donato Balderas, Marites Tabuga, Jupiter Lopez Petilla

Journal of ICSAR

The UN 2030 Education Agenda is a global platform directed towards creating opportunities for learners with special educational needs (LSENs) for their holistic development and eventual mainstreaming in the society. The schools being the catalysts of societal transformation are focal points for the provision of instruction and intervention that emphasize inclusion, equity and gender equality among learners. Policies, programs, activities as well teachers’ training and orientation must be crafted to address the proper mainstreaming and placement of LSENs that will prepare them for self-independence and enhancement of their skills while ensuring that incidents of gender bias and bullying is eliminated, …

Improving The Interpersonal Intelligence Of The Students With Intellectual Disability Through The Bcct Approach, Yuana Maulidia, Sopingi Sopingi, Usep Kustiawan

Journal of ICSAR

Children with intellectual disability have a slow social development. Such as the interpersonal aspects of intelligence. The learning approach that can be used is Beyond Centers And Circle Time (BCCT) approach. The purpose is to describe interpersonal intelligence before and after being given the treatment as well as analyze the effect of the approach Beyond Centers And Circle Time approach interpersonal intelligence intellectual disability. The method used was Quasi-Experiment with Time Series Design and analysis with Wilcoxon test hypothesis. Based on the data analysis, It can be concluded that the BCCT approach effect significantly for the interpersonal intelligence of the …

The Implementation Of Inclusive Education In Indonesia For Children With Special Needs: Expectation And Reality, Mohammad Efendi

Journal of ICSAR

Government efforts to legitimize the implementation of inclusive education for children with special needs in regular schools ranging from primary education to secondary education, the more opportunities to expand opportunities for children with special needs in order to obtain quality education services. However, good policy is not balanced with the readiness of the recommended schools to provide adequate learning facilities and resource support. As a result, there is an indication that the special needs of children’s education in inclusive schools have not received appropriate educational services based on their needs.

Brain Gym Video Model For Improving The Beginning Writing Abilities Of The Autistic Students, Ary Puspita Ningrum, Abdul Huda, Henry Praherdhiono

Journal of ICSAR

Language is a very necessary thing, especially in writing the beginning. Beginning the writing requires a fine motor ability wich adequate. The fine motor in the students with an intellectual disability is impaired so requiring movement that can coordinate motoric. Brain gym is a simple movement that can be used to train cognitive, motor and flexibility the small muscles of the fingers and coordinates the brain with the shoulders, arms, and eyes. The purpose of this research is to produce brain gymnastics. This video is packaged in CD format which is expected to help students to write the beginning. The …

Volume 55, Number 46: July 11, 2018, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Emotion Norms In Media: Acculturation In Hispanic Children's Storybooks Compared To Heritage And Mainstream Cultures, Victoria R. Sanders, Wolfgang Friedlmeier, Mayra L. Sanchez Gonzalez

Open Access Publishing Support Funded Articles

Cultural artifacts such as children’s storybooks may serve to facilitate learning of emotion display norms. We compared emotion displays in European American and Mexican books to infer cultural differences between the mainstream and a heritage culture to ultimately explore acculturation orientation in Hispanic storybooks. Totally, 1,059 images were coded from 10 popular storybooks from each cultural group. We focused on emotion type (positive, negative socially engaging, and disengaging) and intensity of expression. Context variables such as social partners and gender were also compared. Positive emotions were dominant in all groups, occurring most in Hispanic storybooks; Mexican and Hispanic storybooks displayed …

The Words Indicating Death And What Is Related To It In Al-Kafi By Al-Kulayni (D. 328-329 Ah) A Linguistic And Semantic Study Of The Words Of Imam Ali - Peace Be Upon Him - As An Example., Ali Farhan Jawad, Duea\' Rahif Lahu

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This paper seeks to address the phenomenon of multiple words function on recycled to the words of Imam-peace be upon him adequate Sheikh Kulayni (T328-329h) mercy of Allah, and that there are words to indicate the origin of the assets of the Islamic religion which is recycled, has received his words in the upper texts including: (coffins, funeral, burial, condolences, grieving, drowning, grave, Brhot, the Valley of peace, jihad, war), and contexts heterogeneous, and suggest these words to Dlalten, one: sign language, and the second: an indication contextual; Because the context of the situation or the case requires it, then …

Modeling Semantic Encoding In A Common Neural Representational Space, Cara E. Van Uden, Samuel A. Nastase, Andrew C. Connolly, Ma Feilong, Isabella Hansen, M Ida Gobbini, James V. Haxby

Dartmouth Scholarship

Encoding models for mapping voxelwise semantic tuning are typically estimated separately for each individual, limiting their generalizability. In the current report, we develop a method for estimating semantic encoding models that generalize across individuals. Functional MRI was used to measure brain responses while participants freely viewed a naturalistic audiovisual movie. Word embeddings capturing agent-, action-, object-, and scene-related semantic content were assigned to each imaging volume based on an annotation of the film. We constructed both conventional within-subject semantic encoding models and between-subject models where the model was trained on a subset of participants and validated on a left-out participant. …

Aurel Stein And The Kiplings: Silk Road Pathways Of Converging And Reciprocal Inspiration, Geoffrey Kain

Publications

Biographies of the renowned linguistic scholar and archaeological explorer Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) inevitably yet briefly refer to the role played by John Lockwood Kipling (1837–1911), as curator of the Lahore Museum—with its extensive collection of ancient Gandharan Greco-Buddhist sculpture—in exciting Stein’s interests in and theories of what likely lay buried under the sands of the Taklamakan Desert. A more insistent focus on the coalescing influences in the Stein-Kipling relationship, including a subsequent line of evident inspiration from Stein to the internationally famed author and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (Lockwood’s son; 1865–1936), helps to synthesize some of the highlights …

Six Propositions Of A Social Theory Of Numeracy: Interpreting An Influential Theory Of Literacy, Jeffrey Craig, Lynette Guzmán

Numeracy

We share our experiences comprehending social theory as it applies to numeracy scholarship. We build on existing arguments that social theory—explicitly acknowledging the presence and influence of histories, power, and purposes—offers something important to scholars who study and discuss numeracy. In this article, we translate the six propositions of one particular social theory of literacy into propositions about numeracy, then we explore the meaning of each proposition, its connections to existing scholarship, and its implications. This article emerges from two literature reviews: one on social theories (especially their application to and development in literacy) and one on numeracy. We bring …

Doctors As Migration Brokers In The Mandatory Medical Screenings Of Immigrants To The United States, Sofya Aptekar

Publications and Research

Applicants for legal permanent residency in the United States are required to pass a medical screening. Most of these applicants are already living in the United States on non-immigrant and temporary visas and are screened by civil surgeons, physicians designated by the government to look for infectious diseases, incomplete immunization records, and signs that the immigrant will pose a threat or become a public charge. Little is known about the work of these 4000+ physicians, who play a key role as migration brokers in a context where migration control has devolved to non-state actors. I present quantitative analysis of a …

Alma Link Resolver Subject Report 2017-2018, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Statistics for 2017-2018 on the number of OpenURL requests by Library of Congress classification code made to the Ex Libris Alma link resolver for items held by the University of Rhode Island Libraries.

Information provided includes Classification Code, Classifications, Number of Requests, Number of Clicked Requests, and % Clicks from Requests.

A Motherwork Challenge To Dominant Discourse: A Review Of Immigration, Motherhood, And Parental Involvement: Narratives Of Communal Agency In The Face Of Power Asymmetry, Katie D. Scott

The Qualitative Report

In Lilian Cibils dissertation-turned-book, Immigration, Motherhood and Parental Involvement: Narratives of Communal Agency in the Face of Power Asymmetry (2017), the stories of seven Mexican immigrant mothers provide insight into what motherhood looks like outside the mainstream ideology of parental involvement. Using a critical feminist lens, Cibils employs the concept of motherwork as an alternative to a cultural deficit approach for understanding Mexican immigrant motherhood.

Volitional Down-Regulation Of The Primary Auditory Cortex Via Directed Attention Mediated By Real-Time Fmri Neurofeedback, Matthew Sherwood, Jason G. Parker, Emily E. Diller, Subhashini Ganapathy, Kevin B. Bennett, Jeremy T. Nelson

Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Physiology Faculty Publications

The present work assessed the efficacy of training volitional down-regulation of the primary auditory cortex (A1) based on real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback (fMRI-NFT). A1 has been shown to be hyperactive in chronic tinnitus patients, and has been implicated as a potential source for the tinnitus percept. 27 healthy volunteers with normal hearing underwent 5 fMRI-NFT sessions: 18 received real neurofeedback and 9 sham neurofeedback. Each session was composed of a simple auditory fMRI followed by 2 runs of A1 fMRI-NFT. The auditory fMRI alternated periods of no auditory with periods of white noise stimulation at 90 dB. A1 …

Patterns Within Patterns Within The Smart Living Experience, Aitor Arribas Velasco, John Mcgrory, Damon Berry

Conference papers

Modern technology is increasingly being employed to create a “smart” living experience. These “smart” technology entities are producing copious of amounts data, which in turn rely on increased storage, distribution and computation capacity to manage the data. Depending on the scenario, the diversity of piecemeal solutions almost reflects the diversity of problems they address. But some solutions can be reapplied. In the field of computing, design patterns can provide a general, reusable solution to commonly recurring problems within a given context through software design. This work seeks to determine the core elements of a technology-independent design pattern format and an …

Language Matters: Developing Educators’ Expertise For English Learners In Linguistically Diverse Communities, Amy J. Heineke, Aimee Papola-Ellis, Kristin J. Davin, Sarah Cohen, Amanda Roudebush, Beth Wright-Costello, Carol Fendt

Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works

The population of English learners (ELs) continues to grow in schools across the United States and around the world. In this article, we share one urban university’s collaborative approach to building educational capacity for cultural and linguistic diversity through professional development efforts that brought together stakeholders from classrooms, schools, communities, and districts. This grant-funded project aimed to build educator expertise to effectively support and positively influence students’ language development and disciplinary learning. Grounded in sociocultural theory, we used an apprenticeship framework of teacher development, strategically planning and implementing collaborative capacity building efforts to foster learning across individual, interpersonal, and institutional …

Science Inquiry In Informal Settings, Michelle Elizabeth Gomez Ms.

LSU Master's Theses

This qualitative research study aims to answer the question of whether or not informal learning settings, such as museums and zoos, are beneficial to students’ understanding of new science concepts and the nature of science. The researcher uses the term, “informal educators,” to refer to the participants because they are educators who teach in settings outside of a school setting. This study focuses on four informal educators that are employed at four different informal learning settings in South Louisiana, but specifically how the informal educators’ instruction complements classroom instruction, how informal educators incorporate inquiry within their science instruction, and what …

Beyond Replicative Technology: The Digital Practices Of Students With Literacy-Related Learning Difficulties Engaged In Productive Technologies, Aimee Frier

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, I present the findings from a qualitative case study of the digital literacy integration of a teacher and the digital literacy practices of three students with literacy-related learning difficulties within her classroom. As a researcher, I was interested in the ways students with literacy- related learning difficulties navigated digital tools in a technology-infused environment created by a teacher who has experience using digital tools for instructional and student-learning purposes. My research was guided by the following questions: (1) What was the context, content, and structure of the teacher’s technology instruction? (2) In what ways did the students …

The Pedagogical Impacts Of The Common Core State Standards On Elementary Mathematics Teachers Of The Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing, Nathan E. Harrison

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This study explored the intersection of the Common Core State Standards and the field of Deaf Education, specifically the impact of the Common Core on the pedagogy of elementary mathematics teachers of the deaf. Pedagogy was defined as the union of the philosophy and methodology of teaching a teacher uses.

This study made use of an explanatory sequential mixed methods research design, which included a phase of quantitative data collection through a survey of elementary mathematics teachers in Deaf Schools in Common Core states and a phase of qualitative data collection through interviews with a sub-sample of participants from the …

Verb Stem Alternation In Vaiphei, Jesse Prichard

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis describes the form and function of verb stem alternations (VSAs) in Vaiphei, a Kuki-Chin (KC) language belonging to the larger Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. In the existing literature on Vaiphei and Kuki-Chin verb stem alternations, there is no treatment of the form and function of Vaiphei verb stem alternations and how they may be used in classifying Vaiphei in the broader Northern Kuki-Chin language family. I document the form and function of Vaiphei verb stem alternations, showing how these compare to other Northern Kuki-Chin languages and where to classify Vaiphei in Northern Kuki-Chin.

Participants were …

A Unique Small-Scale Microclimatic Gradient In A Temperate Karst Harbours Exceptionally High Diversity Of Soil Collembola, Natália Raschmanová, Dana Miklisová, Ľubomír Kováč

International Journal of Speleology

The collapse doline of the Silická ľadnica Ice Cave, 351 m² in area, is a unique phenomenon, a steep microclimate gradient in a low-altitude temperate karst in the Western Carpathian Mts, Slovakia, with a remarkable temperature decrease from the edge of karst plateau towards the doline bottom, which harbours perennial ice deposits. Collembola communities were studied in detail at seven sites along the 117.5 m long gradient slope during 2005–2007. An exceptionally high species richness of soil Collembola was observed, 129 species, which is about 91% of the total species richness generated by Chao1/ACE estimator. Species richness positively correlated …

Language, Literacy, And Multiliteracies: Preparing Graduate Students To Provide Language Intervention In The 21st Century, Wanda M. V. Kent

Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders

The concept of multiliteracies and its application in educational settings are described with a specific focus on the potential benefits and challenges in use of this approach with children with a language-based learning disability (LLD). The role of traditional literacy skills within a multiliteracies perspective is examined and the literacy skills required by children when using new modes of communication such as texting are discussed. Finally, the implications for educating prospective speech-language pathologists to provide service in a broader literacy landscape are examined.

Similarities And Difference In The Neural Processing Of Speech And Song In Religious Music, Brett Pielstick

Undergraduate Honors Theses

An fMRI study was performed to see the differences in the neurological processing between spoken and sung language in religious music. Students at Brigham Young University, who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were exposed to alternating blocks of spoken and sung lyrics of religious and non-religious songs. There was no significant activation when contrasting speech and song, but there was significant activation in the right middle temporal gyrus and the posterior cingulate gyrus when listening to spoken and sung religious lyrics, suggesting an emotional reaction to religious stimuli. Contrasting spoken stimuli for both religious …

Teaching Computational Thinking And Coding Education Basics To Early Childhood Educators, Enoch Hunsaker

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

The purpose of this project was to design and develop training, assessment, and credentials to help inservice and preservice teachers connected to Brigham Young University (BYU) to become competent in teaching computational thinking (CT) and coding in their classrooms. In accordance with the needs and desires of the stakeholders, the assessments for the project took the form of open badges, and the training consisted of corresponding tutorials to assist individuals earning those badges. The badges, tutorials, and some related resources were compiled onto the Tech with Kids website (https://iptedtec.wixsite.com/techwithkids) to make them accessible for all target learners.

Resisting Essentialism In Cultural Research: A Participatory Action Research Study Of Parent Involvement In Education Among Spanish-Speaking Students And Families, Michael J. Frank

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The present study aimed to investigate a locally-driven action research project to improve connections between Spanish-speaking Latinx parents and the high school that their children attend. Using Participatory Action Research (PAR), the study sought to create a collaborative research agenda that would empower the participants to study their own culture and practices at the school, and how the two combined to create a home-school partnership. Six parents and two members of the school’s bilingual staff comprised the PAR team, with a total of nine members including the principal investigator. The project began with the creation of a public sphere in …