How can today's educators teach academic content to students with moderate and severe developmental disabilities—while helping all students meet Common Core State Standards? This text has answers for K–12 teachers, straight from 37 experts in special and general education. A followup to the landmark bestseller Teaching Language Arts, Math, and Science to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities, this important text prepares teachers to ensure more inclusion, more advanced academic content, and more meaningful learning for their students. Teachers will have the cutting-edge research and recommended practices they need to identify and deliver grade-aligned instructional content—leading to more opportunities and better quality of life for students with severe disabilities. PREPARE TEACHERS TO skillfully adapt lessons in language arts, math, and science for students with disabilities align instruction with Common Core State Standards select target skills and goals differentiate instruction using appropriate supports and assistive technologies balance academic goals and functional skills make the most of effective instructional procedures such as peer tutoring, cooperative learning, and co-teaching maintain high expectations for student achievement promote generalization by embedding instruction into ongoing classroom activities assess students' progress and make adjustments to instruction

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Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefits peer tutoring provides to the tutee. However, studies measuring the benefits peer tutoring provides to the tutor are limited in quantity, detail, participant numbers and breadth. This study measured the benefits 151 peer tutors reported after peer tutoring for a semester in a special education class for students with severe disabilities. Peer tutors reported benefits in an essay response to the prompt: "What do you feel you have gained as a result of being a peer tutor?" The study identified the most common benefits obtained by peer tutors as measured by peer tutor generated responses of general peer-tutoring benefits. Findings suggest an extension of peer-tutoring benefits beyond the tutee exclusively and to the peer tutor.

Les femmes représentent un tiers des personnes vivant avec le VIH en France. Les trois parties de cette thèse visent à explorer les principaux aspects cliniques de la maladie (causes de décès, morbidité grave) ou de la vie des femmes (ménopause) afin d’identifier des recommandations spécifiques pour la prise en charge des femmes dans un contexte d’accès aux soins similaire à celui des hommes.Les causes de décès des femmes infectées par le VIH ont été décrites grâce à l’enquête nationale ANRS EN19, Mortalité 2005. Les femmes décédaient plus fréquemment que les hommes de causes liées au sida (43% vs. 34% chez les hommes). Elles décédaient moins souvent de causes hépatiques (13 % vs. 16%), de cancers non sida-non hépatiques (14% vs. 17%) et de maladies cardiovasculaires (6% vs. 9%). La morbidité grave des patients infectés par le VIH a été étudiée au sein de la Cohorte ANRS CO3-Aquitaine, entre 2000 et 2008. Le taux d’incidence annuelle d’hospitalisation a diminué de moitié entre 2000 et 2008 (146 à 69 pour 1000 PA). Globalement, ce taux ne différait pas entre les femmes et les hommes. Les causes les plus fréquentes de morbidité grave conduisant à une hospitalisation étaient : les infections bactériennes, les événements sida, psychiatriques, hépatiques, hématologiques, infections virales, événements digestifs, infections parasitaires et les événements cardiovasculaires. Toutes ces causes ont eu une baisse de leur incidence annuelle entre 2000 et 2008 chez les hommes et les femmes, exceptés les événements hématologiques (de 2,5 à 15,1 pour 1000 PA), hépatiques (2,5 à11,5) et cardiovasculaires (6,3 à 14,2) qui ont augmenté chez les femmes. L’âge de survenue de la ménopause étudié grâce à une enquête menée au sein de la Cohorte ANRS CO3-Aquitaine était de 49 ans en médiane et 12% des femmes ont eu une ménopause précoce, survenant avant l’âge de 40 ans. L’origine africaine (RR : 8,2) et l’antécédent de toxicomanie IV (RR : 2,5) étaient liés à la survenue plus précoce de la ménopause. En conclusion, les femmes infectées par le VIH en France décèdent plus souvent de sida, mais présentent une morbidité grave caractérisée par une prédominance de complications non classant sida. Dans un contexte d’accès aux soins similaires à celui des hommes infectés par le VIH, les femmes ont un profil de maladies associées traduisant à la fois leurs co-morbidités (co-infections par les hépatites) ou l’inflammation chronique du VIH (maladies cardio-vasculaires) qui nécessitent d’être détectées précocement et prises spécifiquement en charge. / Women represent one third of HIV-infected patients in France. The objective of this thesis was to study the clinical features (causes of death and severe morbidity) and the age and determinants of menopause of these patients in a context of equal access to care for all HIV-infected patients.Causes of death of HIV-infected women were identified in 2005, in a nation-wide survey (ANRS EN19, Mortalité 2005). Women died more often than men from AIDS-related causes (43% vs. 34%) and less frequently from hepatic (13% vs. 16%), non-AIDS non-hepatic cancers (14% vs. 17%) and cardiovascular diseases (6% vs. 9%). Severe morbidity was studied within the ANRS CO3-Aquitaine Cohort between 2000 and 2008. Annual incidence rates of hospitalization globally decreased for men and women from 146 per 1000 PY in 2000 to 69 in 2008. The most frequent causes of severe morbidity leading to hospitalization were: bacterial infections, AIDS events, psychiatric, hepatic, hematologic events, viral infections, digestive events, parasitical infections and cardiovascular events. All events had decreased between 2000 and 2008 in men and women excepted for hematologic (2.5 to 15.1 per 1000 PY), hepatic (2.5 to 11.5) and cardiovascular (6.3 à 14.2) events that increased overtime in women. Age at onset and associated factors of menopause were determined within the ANRS CO3-Aquitaine Cohort. Median age at menopause was 49 years and 12% reached menopause before 40 years (premature menopause). African origin (HR: 8.2) and history of injecting drug use (HR: 2.5) were associated with earlier menopause.In conclusion, HIV infected women in France, die more often from AIDS events but present with a predominantly non-AIDS severe morbidity. In a context of similar access to care than men, women’s health care should take into account their co-morbidities (hepatitis co-infections) and the cardiovascular complications of a long term HIV infection.

The objective of the research presented in this thesis has been to develop a physics-based dislocation density-based numerical framework to simulate microstructure evolution in severe plastic deformation (SPD) manufacturing processes for different materials. Different mechanisms of microstructure evolution in SPD manufacturing processes were investigated and summarized for different materials under dynamic or high strain rates over a wide temperature range. Thorough literature reviews were performed to clarify discrepancies of the mechanism responsible for the formation of nanocrystalline structure in the machined surface layer under both low-temperature and high-temperature conditions. Under this framework, metallo-thermo-mechanically (MTM) coupled finite element (FE) models were developed to predict the microstructure evolution during different SPD manufacturing processes. Different material flow stress responses were modeled subject to responsible plastic deformation mechanisms. These MTM coupled FE models successfully captured the microstructure evolution process for various materials subjected to multiple mechanisms. Cellular automaton models were developed for SPD manufacturing processes under intermediate to high strain rates for the first time to simulate the microstructure evolution subjected to discontinuous dynamic recrystallization and thermally driven grain growth. The cellular automaton simulations revealed that the recrystallization process usually cannot be completed by the end of the plastic deformation under intermediate to high strain rates. The completion of the recrystallization process during the cooling stage after the plastic deformation process was modeled for the first time for SPD manufacturing processes at elevated temperatures.

The purpose of this study was to test the effects of graduated guidance procedure on teaching imitation of manual signs to students with moderate to severe disabilities. Sessions began with student initiation and were embedded across already established reinforcement routines across the student’s day. A multiple baseline across participants design was used to evaluate these effects.

Stigma is one of the foremost barriers to effective mental health treatment of consumers. Social workers currently provide the majority of mental health treatment in the United States. Examining levels of stigma present in social work students would be valuable in providing future interventions. A quantitative study was conducted utilizing an online questionnaire. The survey was distributed by the CSUSB Department of Social Work to graduate social work students. Statistical analysis utilizing SPSS software was conducted following data collection. Data analysis indicated that there was no significant difference in the attitudes regardless of exposure to severe mental illness. The findings of this study indicate that exposure to severe mental illness may not be the only factor in determining one’s attitude. Implications of these findings for social work research include outlining the need for further examination of stigma to identify more specific factors in the formation of stigmatic attitudes.

This thesis examines the requirements of children and adolescents with severe spinal cord injuries. The requirements are expressed by the parents of the children and by adolescents and are in contrast to official views of their 'needs'. There is no literature on the needs of these children and adolescents. The thesis thus begins with a examination of the literature on the needs of people with disabilities and people with spinal cord injury. Proponents of the social model of disability, which is based on the experiences of people with disabilities, contend that the main requirements of people with disabilities is ending their social marginalisation, and it is hypothesised that the requirements of the children and adolescents will be related to ending social marginalisation. Open-ended unstructured interviews with parents, parents and adolescents and adolescents alone ( a total of 20 interviews) provided data for analysis. Analysis of the data shows that the requirements of the children and adolescents, like adults with spinal cord injuries, differ from those of people with disabilities in that there are important concerns in addition to marginalisation.

<p>Background: During the last decades patient satisfaction has become an important measurement of quality in psychiatric care. However the patients are seldom asked to evaluate the treatments.</p><p>Objectives: The aim is to determine which factors the outpatients regard as beneficial in their psychiatric treatment. The purpose is explorative. During the study another purpose developed; to present research on the importance of the relationship between the caretaker and the caregiver for the outcome.</p><p>Method: 30 persons were interviewed about what they found helpful in psychiatric treatment. The interviews were open using Grounded Theory as methodological input.</p><p>Result: The most prominent topic was the quality of the relationship between the caregiver and the caretaker. The characteristics of a helping relationship seem to be when the patient:</p><p>- is being listened to and understood by a caregiver who is interested and concerned.</p><p>- is not only seen as a caretaker with problems but also as a complete person, someone more than an equation of symptoms, diagnoses and shortcomings</p><p>- is seen as a person worth listening to with unique knowledge which matters to the caregiver</p><p>- is seen as a unique person not possible to minimize to just another case</p>