Sentences with phrase «as adaptive measures»

As adaptive measures are identified, allocate resources for these projects, many of which will stretch over decades.

Not exact matches

«This could mean that girls who meet the same clinical criteria as boys actually are more severely affected by ongoing social and adaptive skill deficits that we don't capture in current clinical measures, and that autistic girls, in general, may be camouflaging these types of autism deficits during direct assessments.»

This questionnaire measures coping styles using three dimensions: maladaptive coping (such as thought suppression, rumination), adaptive coping (e.g. problem - solving, acceptance), and avoidance.

As an occupational therapist, I love the idea that adaptive equipment, or supportive measures can be used while we are working hard through the rehab process.

It also allows states to take advantage of a range of innovative approaches to improve assessment and reduce the burden of tests, such as utilizing computer - adaptive assessment, implementing smaller interim assessments in place of large summative tests, and diverse measures such as performance - based assessments.

Computer - adaptive assessments (such as those developed by the Smarter Balanced consortium) can be structured and administered in ways that measure growth at every level, without overburdening any student with a ridiculously long test.

The result was more than two years worth of academic growth for 100 percent of my students within the course of a single school year, as measured by NWEA»S Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment, a computer adaptive interim assessment tool that teachers can use to evaluate student learning growth periodically throughout the school year.

In addition to having the adaptive feature, it will have a variety of media including simulations and animations as well as pre - and post-assessments and behavioral surveys that «measure changes in students» attitudes and behaviors regarding a variety of civic matters.»

Jaguar's Adaptive Dynamics dampers use sensors to measure each wheel's velocity relative to the body 500 times per second while the computer can order valving adjustments as often as 100 times per second.

The safety tech list is as long as one would expect at the luxurious end of the crossover spectrum, with features such as adaptive cruise control and automatic braking, lane - keeping alert and assistance, blind - spot and cross-traffic alerts, a 360 - degree camera system, and more novel measures such as inflatable rear seatbelt airbags and a glovebox door airbag designed to provide passenger knee protection all on offer.

Available as optional equipment are systems such as Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), which uses a distance sensor to measure distance to and relative speed of vehicles ahead (up to 210 km / h / 130 mph), and the Blind Spot Sensor Lane change assistant.

Above all, it is time to break away from Bush - Era thinking, and to encourage governments to act incisively, with science, not lobbying, as guide to climate policy and the regulation of adaptive measures.

While these findings may reflect adaptive capacities despite traumatic experience, they also pose additional questions regarding the reliance of PTSD as a single outcome measure.

Batteries of biomarkers that measure allostatic load (also termed allostatic overload to highlight pathophysiology of the extreme)(38) tap into the major mediators of allostasis along with some key secondary outcomes, such as body mass index or waist — hip ratio and glycosylated hemoglobin (39), and provide a broad - based assessment of the dysregulation of these adaptive systems that has turned out to have predictive value in a variety of epidemiologic studies (40).

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.

When the combined data set was separated by intelligence measure, only the younger group (Mullen) displayed moderate correlation between parental depression and adaptive behavior, suggesting that the strength of a linear relationship between these two variables is much stronger in younger deaf children as compared to older deaf children.

Additionally, there are several potential risk factors (such as negative life events, family conflict, medical illness) and protective factors (such as social support, adaptive coping strategies, self - efficacy) for poor mental health and mental wellbeing (WHO 2012) that were not measured and might have added to the predictive strength of the study.

As previously noted, the need for separate and distinct tools to differentiate core ASD symptoms from measures of maladaptive and adaptive behaviour may provide clarity to the current overlap between child characteristics and their influence on family outcomes.