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Parent-To-Parent Interactive Transition Information Session: Sharing Information On Transition Services From High School To Post-Secondary Experiences, Timothy J. Pead
Parent-To-Parent Interactive Transition Information Session: Sharing Information On Transition Services From High School To Post-Secondary Experiences, Timothy J. Pead
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Parents of high school aged children with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities sometimes experience fear and anxiety associated with transition of children to post-‐secondary programs. Most information is disseminated to these parents from local education agency staff, including: special education teachers, transition specialists and administrators. This project examined the effects of a parent-‐to-‐parent interactive session on knowledge and perspectives of parents in transition. Parents of youth (ages 14-‐20) who are diagnosed as having moderate to severe intellectual disabilities who live in the school boundaries of the high school within which the researcher teaches were part of this study. A group …
Parent Evaluation Of A Parent Training Program Of Positive Behavior Interventions, Jeana Washburn
Parent Evaluation Of A Parent Training Program Of Positive Behavior Interventions, Jeana Washburn
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Parent training programs have been shown to be helpful to parents in regards to implementing behavior intervention strategies with their children. Parent satisfaction with a parent-training program is an important variable in that, if parents like a program, it is more likely to be successful. The purpose of this project was to provide a brief parent training program using Dr. Glenn I. Latham’s website, Parenting Prescriptions, and examine parent evaluations of the program. The participants were four mothers of preschool age children. Each child had an educational classification of speech and language impairment. The project evaluated the parent training program …
Parent Nutrition Education And The Influence On Family Lifestyle Behavior Changes, Kelsey Rich
Parent Nutrition Education And The Influence On Family Lifestyle Behavior Changes, Kelsey Rich
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Utah State University in the collaboration with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) proposes to develop and implement a program to help families develop healthy eating habits and lifestyle behaviors. Recently, childhood overweight and obesity has reached epidemic proportions. The diseases associated with adult obesity are now being seen in the pediatric population; therefore, there is a call for preventative efforts. A diet high in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in combination with an active lifestyle discourages the presence of obesity. Currently, most childhood obesity prevention efforts have taken place in the school setting and have only had short term …
Treatment Of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Utilizing Parent-Facilitated Acceptance And Commitment Therapy, Jennifer Yardley
Treatment Of Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Utilizing Parent-Facilitated Acceptance And Commitment Therapy, Jennifer Yardley
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects as many as 2.7% of children. Pediatric OCD is associated with significant distress for both families and children in multiple domains. Unfortunately, the majority of children with OCD do not receive adequate treatment. Without treatment pediatric OCD often persists into adulthood.
The current primary psychological treatment for pediatric OCD is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with exposure and response prevention (ERP). However, there are multiple limitations of this treatment. Some children either do not respond to current treatments or respond only minimally, while others drop out or refuse treatment.
Exposure-based treatments yield problems with treatment adherence, …
Parent Education In A Cooperative Nursery School, Owen William Cahoon
Parent Education In A Cooperative Nursery School, Owen William Cahoon
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Parent education has existed for as long as one parent has attempted to help another, and for as long as we have records. To what extent it has served its purpose has not been fully established. Only the future will fully tell how successful parent education programs have been among those who participated in them, because the final measure of success of a parent education program is the degree to which it contributes to effective family relationships and to favorable growth and development of children in the home.
Parent education sometimes is defined as the use of educational techniques to …
Parent Participation At Central School Of Brigham City, Utah, Elbert J. Anderson
Parent Participation At Central School Of Brigham City, Utah, Elbert J. Anderson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
We plead for a better, a more just, a more open and straightforward, a more public society, in which free and all-around communication and participation occurs as a matter of course in order that education may be bettered. We plead for an improved and enlarged education in order that there may be brought into existence a society all of whose operations shall be more genuinely educative, conducive to the development of desire, judgment and character. (1)
Participation is concerned with three groups; students, trained experts, and parents. None of these, in the eyes of Dewey or Kilpatrick and their school …