Social skills training for youth with learning disabilities in transition from school to work is of substantial importance. To examine the generalization of such training to real employment settings, this study used a multiple-baseline design to investigate the effects of 12 measured behaviors (3 behaviors per student) on four high school seniors. An initial simulated social skills package delivered at school led to generalization in 8 of 12 behaviors. Subsequently, in situ training at the work site produced generalization in 4 of 6 behaviors. This two-phase model appears to be a powerful way to promote generalization of behavioral skills.
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J Speech Lang Hear Res
January 2025
Down Syndrome Program, Division of Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA.
Purpose: Toddlers with Down syndrome (DS) showcase comparable or higher rates of gestures than chronological age- and language-matched toddlers without DS. Little is known about how gesture use in toddlers with DS relates to multiple domains of development, including motor, pragmatics, language, and visual reception (VR) skills. Unexplored is whether gesture use is a good marker of social communication skills in DS or if gesture development might be more reliably a marker of motor, language, pragmatics, or VR skills.
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Department of Public Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
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January 2025
Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom.
This exploratory study aims to understand athletes' experiences and perceptions of the "Voices of Athletes" (VOA), an athlete support program specifically designed and implemented in the Pacific Islands. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, combining questionnaires and short interviews, data were gathered from 414 athletes (questionnaires) and 104 athletes (interviews) during the 2019 Pacific Games in Samoa. While a Chi-square test was used for quantitative analysis to assess the association between familiarity with the VOA and interest in learning more about the program, content and thematic analyses were employed to qualitatively examine participants' perceptions and attitudes towards the VOA.
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January 2025
Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (MIND) Institute, University of California, 2825 50th Street, Davis, Sacramento 95817, California, USA.
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) presents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), intellectual disability, developmental delay, seizures, hypotonia during infancy, joint laxity, behavioral issues, and characteristic facial features. The predominant mechanism is due to CGG trinucleotide repeat expansion of more than 200 repeats in the 5'UTR (untranslated region) of (Fragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein 1) causing promoter methylation and transcriptional silencing. However, not all patients presenting with the characteristic phenotype and point/frameshift mutations with deletions in have been described in the literature.
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February 2025
Graduate Institute of Gerontology and Health Care Management, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, ROC.
The increasingly severe issue of societal aging worldwide has prompted the reevaluation of elderly-care strategies and related workforce development. This paper was developed to explore new directions in elderly care workforce development from the perspective of social co-care. The current state and challenges of elderly care personnel in Taiwan are analyzed, emphasizing the importance of cross-professional collaboration to enhancing elderly care quality.
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