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The adjustment of Latin American children adopted at an older age and their families to adoption: A natural experiment of the role of early experience.
(1989)
The cognitive, academic, and social development of Latin American children adopted after 3 1/2 years of age was compared to the population norm and a comparison group. 76 children from 25 two-parent and 13 single-parent ...
Syntax, Vocabulary and Metaphor in Three Groups of Novels for Children in Grades Four to Six.
(1983)
The objective of this study was to provide information about language differences in three groups of novels for readers in the middle grades. The three categories of novels, chosen from a 'high' literature--popular literature ...
The Development of Self Image in Childhood and Adolescence.
(1982)
The purpose of this study was to provide empirical support for a general developmental approach to self concept and to investigate a specific aspect of self concept: the ideal self image. It was hypothesized that the ideal ...
The blessing and the burden: A phenomenological study of the life stories of helping professionals.
(1988)
In order to explore the life histories of helping professionals (psychologists, social workers, counselors, mental health workers, and psychiatric nurses), and to discover the meaning of their career commitments and life ...
Psychiatric Diagnoses Among a Community-Based Mentally Retarded Population: Implications for Diagnostic Overshadowing and Programming (Mental Illness, Psychopathology, Developmentally Disabled).
(1986)
The primary purpose of this study was to survey a community-based sample population who had been given both mental retardation and psychiatric diagnoses (i.e. 'dually diagnosed'). The goal was to present information for ...
A revealed preference analysis of consumer tastes for public education.
(1988)
Data on 846 Michigan homeowners are checked for consistency with revealed preference. If data are consistent, they could have been generated by consumers with the same preferences. A number of stratifications are checked ...
Sign Language Use of Hearing-Impaired Children Whose Home and School Sign Language is a Manual English System.
(1987)
This study examined hearing-impaired children's production of Signed English and American Sign Language (ASL) (with vocalization). The home and school sign language of the children was Signed English. Their production of ...
Higher Education and State Government in Michigan: a Historical and Organizational Analysis of the Relationship from 1950 to 1971.
(1987)
This dissertation, based on archival research, presents a history of the patterns of interaction between The University of Michigan and the state legislature, the Board of Education and the other Michigan public colleges ...
Classroom Characteristics and Early Adolescents' Self-Assessments of Math Ability.
(1986)
Two studies examined the influence of classroom and student characteristics on early adolescents' self-assessments of math ability. In the first study, the effects of three classroom factors (task structure, emphasis of ...
The impact of acculturation experiences on five Southeast Asian refugee families in the United States: Implications for adult education.
(1989)
The purpose of this study is to underst and the meaning of the acculturation experience of five Southeast Asian refugee families, to determine the factors or conditions that they perceived to be most essential to (or ...