College is a time of pressure and stress for students. The presence of a physical disability can be a factor which lends additional complications and adds to the stress and adjustment difficulties in the college years. In recognition of the stresses and pressures and in response to legislative mandates, colleges are beginning to offer programs of support services for physically disabled students. Although the literature supports such offerings as helpful in the adjustment process, little research has been done to determine effectiveness of support services. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of two types of support services, Adaptive Physical Education and Group Counseling on the adjustment of physically disabled students as measured by pre and post treatment mean scores on the Tennessee Self Concept Scale and the Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale. Additionally, Goal Attainment Scaling was used with students who participated in a Counseling Group. Subjects were 21 physically disabled volunteers who were students at The University of Arizona, Tucson, during the fall semester 1980. Subjects were divided into three groups: students enrolled in Adaptive Physical Education classes (n = 7), students participating in a semester long counseling group (n = 6), and students who were neither enrolled in Adaptive Physical Education nor participating in a counseling group (n = 8). The experimental treatment consisted of participation in Adaptive Physical Education twice a week over the course of the semester for Group 1. Group 2 participated in a once per week counseling group for 10 weeks. Subjects in the Control Group did not report receiving regular counseling and were not enrolled in Physical Education classes. The Tennessee Self Concept Scale and Rotter I-E Scale were administered to subjects at the beginning and end of the semester. Additionally, subjects in the Counseling Group established and rated themselves on goals as part of the pre and post treatment assessment. This group also rated the group counseling experience at the end of the semester. The study was designed to see if participation in Adaptive Physical Education or Group Counseling would significantly effect the pre and post treatment mean scores on the Tennessee Self Concept Scale and the Rotter I-E Scale. Analysis of variance of the pre and post treatment mean scores for all three groups did not reveal any statistically significant differences in either Self Concept or Locus of Control scores. All students in the Counseling Group reported achieving their goals and reported the group experience to be a positive one. From the evidence gathered in the study, it was concluded that neither Adaptive Physical Education nor Group Counseling have a statistically significant effect on the self concept or locus of control of physically disabled college students. The small numbers of subjects in the three groups may have been a contributing factor in the failure to achieve any statistically significant difference between the three groups. Recommendations include further study of support services with a larger number of subjects over a longer period of time, further research to identify alternate methods of measuring change and further study of other types of support services.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993. / "Individual workshop report." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-121).

Summaries en Afrikaans and English / Text in Afrikaans / Een van die kenmerke van leergestremde kinders is dat hulle, benewens hul leertekorte, dikwels ook gedragsprobleme manifesteer wat nie net hul leer benadeel nie, maar ook hul uiteindelike volwassewording. Talle skoolse opvoeders wat met hierdie kinders gemoeid is, is nie in staat om hierdie kinders se gedragsprobleme na behore aan te spreek nie. Die doel van hierdie studie is om enkele onderrigstrategiee daar te stel aan die hand waarvan bepaalde gedragsprobleme van leergestremde laerskoolkinders in die hoofstroom van die onderwys aangespreek kan word. V oordat daar oorgegaan is tot die beplanning van hierdie onderrigstrategiee, is daar op die etiologie en manifestasies van leergestremdheid gefokus. Vervolgens is enkele bestaande hulpverleningspraktyke bespreek en aan die hand van ortopedagogiese beginsels geevalueer. Aangesien hierdie hulpverleningspraktyke as ortopedagogies verantwoordbaar beskou is, kon dit as basis dien vir onderrigstrategiee vir die bantering van die volgende gedragsprobleme: aandagtekorte, hiperaktiwiteit, impulsiwiteit, hipoaktiwiteit, katastrofiese gedragsuitinge en aggressie. / One of the characteristics associated with learning disabled pupils is that they not only experience learning difficulties, but often manifest behavioural problems that impede their learning and eventual adulthood. Many educators involved with learning disabled pupils are unable to address the behavioural problems of these children effectively. The purpose of this study is to compile instructional strategies that could be put into practice when dealing with the behavioural problems of learning disabled pupils who are in the mainstream of education. Before planning these strategies, the etiology and manifestations of learning disabilities were addressed. Thereafter, orthopedagogical criteria were applied to evalute certain schools of thought regarding orthopedagogical practices. Having ascertained that the practices in question are orthopedagogically sound, instructional strategies, based on these practices, were planned to address the following behavioural problems: attention deficits, hyperactivity, impulsivity, hypoactivity, catastrophic reactions and aggression. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (Orthopedagogics)

Trata-se de um estudo de alternativas de reforma de residências para deficiente físico em cadeira de rodas, propondo-as como micro-fator de reinserção social, considerado, como macro-fator, o circular na cidade para uma participação efetiva do deficiente físico na vida da comunidade. As barreiras arquitetônicas, entendidas como uma estrutura do meio ambiente edificado que se opõe à independência parcial ou total das pessoas de mobilidade reduzida, são amplamente estudadas, pois subsidiam as reformas. Estas procuram otimizar o binômio espaço habitado/qualidade de vida, através da racionalização e adequação do espaço às exigências dimensionais do usuário deficiente e da cadeira de rodas, seu meio locomotor, bem como possibilitando o acesso a todo ambiente da residência e o uso dos seus equipamentos. Um estudo sumário sobre o alcance do deficiente físico quando em cadeira de rodas, bem como sobre as exigências dimensionais para a circulação desse seu veículo é mostrado na segunda parte da tese, composta, aliás, de três grandes capítulos. Não é um trabalho inédito quanto a temática. Contudo, enquanto resenha bibliográfica e estatística dimensional de espaços e suas instalações, pode servir de ponto de partida e marco referencial para estudos de normatização e definição de padrões condizentes com a escala e realidade brasileira que começa a demandar soluções para a problemática. / The subject study refers to alternatives to be used in homes of physically handicapped people in wheeling chairs, proposed as micro-factors of social insertion, and at the same time as a macro-factor to allow him to circulated in town for an effective participation in the community\'s life. The built environmental structure that opposes partial or totally the people\'s reduced mobility are the architectural barriers witch are fully studied here to subsidize the modifications proposed. They seek to optimize the inhabited space/life quality binomial through rationalization and adequacy of space, to the demands of the handicapped user and wheeling chairs, his locomotor expedient, as well as access possibility to the home ambient and the utilization of its equipment. The sketched out analysis over the reaching of the physically handicapped when in wheeling chairs, as well as the dimensional demands for the circulation of that vehicle, is shown in the second part of this Thesis, in three chapters. It is not an inedited work thematically viewed. However, while bibliographic inventory and dimensional statistics of space and pertinent installations, it serves as a starting point for standards and pattern definitions suitable to the Brazilian reality and scale, that begins now to demand solutions for the problem of the handicapped people in wheeling chairs.

Trata-se de um estudo de alternativas de reforma de residências para deficiente físico em cadeira de rodas, propondo-as como micro-fator de reinserção social, considerado, como macro-fator, o circular na cidade para uma participação efetiva do deficiente físico na vida da comunidade. As barreiras arquitetônicas, entendidas como uma estrutura do meio ambiente edificado que se opõe à independência parcial ou total das pessoas de mobilidade reduzida, são amplamente estudadas, pois subsidiam as reformas. Estas procuram otimizar o binômio espaço habitado/qualidade de vida, através da racionalização e adequação do espaço às exigências dimensionais do usuário deficiente e da cadeira de rodas, seu meio locomotor, bem como possibilitando o acesso a todo ambiente da residência e o uso dos seus equipamentos. Um estudo sumário sobre o alcance do deficiente físico quando em cadeira de rodas, bem como sobre as exigências dimensionais para a circulação desse seu veículo é mostrado na segunda parte da tese, composta, aliás, de três grandes capítulos. Não é um trabalho inédito quanto a temática. Contudo, enquanto resenha bibliográfica e estatística dimensional de espaços e suas instalações, pode servir de ponto de partida e marco referencial para estudos de normatização e definição de padrões condizentes com a escala e realidade brasileira que começa a demandar soluções para a problemática. / The subject study refers to alternatives to be used in homes of physically handicapped people in wheeling chairs, proposed as micro-factors of social insertion, and at the same time as a macro-factor to allow him to circulated in town for an effective participation in the community\'s life. The built environmental structure that opposes partial or totally the people\'s reduced mobility are the architectural barriers witch are fully studied here to subsidize the modifications proposed. They seek to optimize the inhabited space/life quality binomial through rationalization and adequacy of space, to the demands of the handicapped user and wheeling chairs, his locomotor expedient, as well as access possibility to the home ambient and the utilization of its equipment. The sketched out analysis over the reaching of the physically handicapped when in wheeling chairs, as well as the dimensional demands for the circulation of that vehicle, is shown in the second part of this Thesis, in three chapters. It is not an inedited work thematically viewed. However, while bibliographic inventory and dimensional statistics of space and pertinent installations, it serves as a starting point for standards and pattern definitions suitable to the Brazilian reality and scale, that begins now to demand solutions for the problem of the handicapped people in wheeling chairs.

This thesis examines the phonology and morphology of Turkish Sign Language (TiD). TiD, being considered a full-fledged language, has a rich phonological and morphological system, as other sign and spoken languages do. For the purpose of this thesis / empirical data have been collected by means of a corpus study and various data elicitation tasks. As a main result of my study of TiD phonology, I propose a complete inventory of handshapes as well as a set of unmarked handshapes which are unique to TiD. I discuss the interaction between TiD finger-spelling and TiD phonology showing that well-formedness conditions constrain the use of finger-spelled letters in lexical signs I also discuss psycholinguistic evidence that sign languages have phonological systems, among them phonological effects on working memory and slips of the hand In the domain of TiD morphology, I investigate the three main morphological processes: inflection, derivation and compounding. Verb classification, plural properties, compounding, and reciprocals in TiD are investigated in detail. I argue that some TiD reciprocals use &ldquo / reciprocal neutral signing space&rdquo / whereby agreement becomes neutralized. TiD makes wide use of classifier constructions as for plural marking and for expressing movements of various human and non-human agents. The thesis indicates that TiD has its own grammar, including rich and diverse systems of phonology, morphology, and classification. Thus, TiD may have had a long historical development. The comparison between TiD and other sign languages shows that TiD has exclusive linguistic properties. The comparison of TiD as a visual-gestural system and Turkish as an auditory-vocal system helps to better understand the impact of modality on language phonology and morphology.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf [154-159]).

Summaries en Afrikaans and English / Text in Afrikaans / Een van die kenmerke van leergestremde kinders is dat hulle, benewens hul leertekorte, dikwels ook gedragsprobleme manifesteer wat nie net hul leer benadeel nie, maar ook hul uiteindelike volwassewording. Talle skoolse opvoeders wat met hierdie kinders gemoeid is, is nie in staat om hierdie kinders se gedragsprobleme na behore aan te spreek nie. Die doel van hierdie studie is om enkele onderrigstrategiee daar te stel aan die hand waarvan bepaalde gedragsprobleme van leergestremde laerskoolkinders in die hoofstroom van die onderwys aangespreek kan word. V oordat daar oorgegaan is tot die beplanning van hierdie onderrigstrategiee, is daar op die etiologie en manifestasies van leergestremdheid gefokus. Vervolgens is enkele bestaande hulpverleningspraktyke bespreek en aan die hand van ortopedagogiese beginsels geevalueer. Aangesien hierdie hulpverleningspraktyke as ortopedagogies verantwoordbaar beskou is, kon dit as basis dien vir onderrigstrategiee vir die bantering van die volgende gedragsprobleme: aandagtekorte, hiperaktiwiteit, impulsiwiteit, hipoaktiwiteit, katastrofiese gedragsuitinge en aggressie. / One of the characteristics associated with learning disabled pupils is that they not only experience learning difficulties, but often manifest behavioural problems that impede their learning and eventual adulthood. Many educators involved with learning disabled pupils are unable to address the behavioural problems of these children effectively. The purpose of this study is to compile instructional strategies that could be put into practice when dealing with the behavioural problems of learning disabled pupils who are in the mainstream of education. Before planning these strategies, the etiology and manifestations of learning disabilities were addressed. Thereafter, orthopedagogical criteria were applied to evalute certain schools of thought regarding orthopedagogical practices. Having ascertained that the practices in question are orthopedagogically sound, instructional strategies, based on these practices, were planned to address the following behavioural problems: attention deficits, hyperactivity, impulsivity, hypoactivity, catastrophic reactions and aggression. / Educational Studies / M.Ed. (Orthopedagogics)

Physical activity has been recommended for its importance in the prevention of disease and health, although amputees have lower levels of physical activity, as well as changes in specific characteristics that may change the nature of the relationship between physical activity and quality of life. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate factors associated with higher levels of physical activity as well as to verify the relationship between physical activity and quality of life. For such a cross-sectional study using forms with social and clinical questionnaires and quality of life WHOQOL -BREF and the IPAQ physical activity questions was conducted. For categorical variables the chi-square test p < 0.05 was used, the numerical variables were evaluated using the Student t test p < 0.05 and variables with p < 0.2 were entered into a logistic regression model . The level of physical activity was correlated only with the physical and psychological domains p < 0.05 quality of life, and factors related to physical activity levels were age , functional independence and participation in the rehabilitation program p < 0 , 05. There was no change in the nature of the relationship between physical activity and quality of life , and rehabilitation program was the only variable associated with higher levels of physical activity , an increased risk of chance in twenty- five times for the individual to be active. / A Atividade Física tem sido recomendada pela sua importância tanto na prevenção de doenças quanto na saúde. Porém indivíduos amputados apresentam menores níveis de prática de Atividade Física, além de alterações de características específicas que podem alterar a natureza da relação entre Atividade Física e Qualidade de Vida. Por isso, o objetivo deste estudo foi verificar os fatores relacionados com maiores níveis de Atividade Física, como também verificar a relação entre Atividade Física e Qualidade de Vida. Para tal, foi conduzido um estudo transversal utilizando formulários com perguntas sociais e clínicas e de questionários de Qualidade de Vida WHOQOL-BREF e de Atividade Física IPAQ. Para as variáveis categóricas foi utilizado o teste do qui quadrado p<0,05, as variáveis numéricas foram avaliadas através do teste t student p<0,05 e as variáveis que apresentaram p<0,2 foram inseridas no modelo de regressão logística. O nível de Atividade Física apresentou relação apenas com os domínios físico e psicológico p<0,05 da Qualidade de Vida, e os fatores relacionados com os níveis de Atividade Física foram: idade, independência funcional e a participação no programa de reabilitação p<0,05. Não houve alteração na natureza da relação entre nível de Atividade Física e Qualidade de Vida, e o Programa de Reabilitação foi à única variável associada com maiores níveis de Atividade Física, apresentando um risco de chance aumentado em vinte e cinco vezes para o indivíduo ser ativo.

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