Sentences with phrase «skill deficits as»

The DSM - IV mentions low self - esteem, demoralization, and social skill deficits as associated with learning disorders.

The University of Manchester, in collaboration with other universities, industrial partners, and various other agencies, sponsors training centers where students can earn doctoral degrees in areas that target such skill deficits as next - generation nuclear technologies or materials for demanding environments.

Not exact matches

Just as DiCostanzo and Sherry have built their bikes to accommodate older bodies, they have also built Pedego to accommodate skill deficits — chiefly in technology and social media — among some of their dealers.

There are many reasons for teens to underperform at school, including a lack of motivation to do well, problems at home or with peers, poor work habits or study skills, emotional and behavior problems, learning disabilities (such as dyslexia), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, mental retardation or below average intelligence and other medical problems, including anxiety and depression.

These can cause serious long - term issues, such as intellectual delays or disability, learning problems, motor skill issues or visual deficits.

The deficits are not necessarily caused by the cow milk products; rather, it appears to be the interruption of human milk influences, as studies reveal that breastfed infants also show slightly higher intellectual skills over those who receive soy formula.

«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.»

The research could even have the potential to help researchers better understand human disabilities, such as autism, that may involve deficits in social skills, MacLean said.

Many past studies incorporated a motor skills element — such as having participants tap to a beat — which made it impossible to tell whether the problem was rhythm perception or a motor production deficit, McAuley said.

The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12

Introduction: Losing Body Fat as a «Skill» Chapter 1: Calories Burned After Exercise Don't Amount to Much Chapter 2: Focus on Calories Burned During the Workout Chapter 3: Calories Burned: Intervals Vs Steady State Chapter 4: A 1 Page Interval Training Summary Chapter 5: How Interval Training Actually Works Chapter 6: Calorie Deficit, Calories Burned, & Fat Loss Chapter 7: Burning Stubborn Body Fat Chapter 8: Calories, Food, and Workout Timing Chapter 9: Improving Popular Fat Loss Programs Chapter 10: Separating Fat Loss & Resistance Training Chapter 11: Visual Impact Cardio Preparation Chapter 12: The Beginner's Cycle Chapter 13: The Intermediate Cycle Chapter 14: The Advanced Cycle Chapter 15: The Maintenance Plan Chapter 16: Final Thoughts

Deserves to become a serious art - house hit in the U.S. thanks to its skill in deftly overcoming the form's usual deficits, for a result that feels as amazingly cohesive as it is relentlessly clever and entertaining.

«ACARA believes that good assessment, including NAPLAN, is central to identifying literacy and numeracy needs as early as possible to prevent cumulative skill deficits,» the spokesman said.

Trauma - informed teaching models have consistently positioned relationships as the conduit of learning; and self - regulation as a key skill to meet deficit areas of emotional and physical development (Wolpow et al., 2009).

I come at it from a skills - deficit orientation; if I don't find something, I think of it as goal - directed.

I almost never see it as goal - directed, which tells you that I'm almost always stumbling upon a skills deficit along the way.

It's no secret that the American educational system today lists under the weight of some massive, seemingly intractable burdens such as poor college preparation, modest achievement results compared with other nations, high dropout rates, significant teaching and performance disparities across racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, and a deficit of graduates equipped with the necessary skills for tomorrow's workforce.

Disabilities ranged from attention deficit disorder to mild cerebral palsy, and their math skills were generally at the 3rd grade level (according to traditional tests of basic skills and intelligence such as the Woodcock - Johnson test).

Although we may think of reading comprehension as a single skill or a single subtest score, students with poor reading comprehension ofte struggle with a variety of deficits.

For example, Bob Wise, a former governor of West Virginia who is now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, said at a national leadership summit in February 2012 that online learning is an «imperative for meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiences.

First and foremost, an older student with dyslexia should have skilled instruction in deficit areas of reading and writing as determined by an evaluation.

Faced with persistent failure as a result of their poor literacy skills, these students frequently become frustrated, disengage from school, «act out» behaviorally, and without significant interventions and supports to address their literacy deficits, may drop out of school and face a lifetime of severely diminished economic prospects.

How does seeing difficult student behavior as related to skill deficits change the way teachers and administrators might respond to such behavior?

Provides instructional services to students with learning needs, diagnoses learning skill deficits and delivers prescribed instructional delivery methods as determined by Catapult Learning; consults with school personnel to coordinate efforts in providing services to students; communicates and conferences with parents providing information on student progress, co-teach with other educators.

One such skill is the ability to write using standard, correct grammar and punctuation.2 Content apart, correct writing is a gatekeeper in the legal profession, critical for attorneys3 and their clients.4 Further, lack of knowledge of the rules governing standard or professional writing can serve as a proxy for other deficits in students» previous instruction.

Now Commit to this protocol and to positively promote the procurement of legal services of black and women practitioners; to actively create better access for black and women practitioners; to bridge the skill set deficits, if any, among black and female practitioners; to increase the exposure of black and female practitioners to all areas of the law; to help broaden the pool of black and women practitioners; to ensure that fair selection criteria are used in the briefing of black and women practitioners; to promote a change in attitude so as to promote the inclusion of black and women practitioners in the main stream of practice; to render bi-annual reports for the monitoring of compliance with the aims of these protocols, holding signatories to the protocols accountable; and to widen the pool of practitioners and ultimately affect the transformation of the judiciary; all in order to progressively realise the achievement of the transformation of the legal profession.

The Council was already facing financial difficulties with a budget deficit from the previous year which had resulted in the appointment of an administrator and the redundancy of a number of skilled community - members (such as trades - people).

As an adjunct - instructor at Georgia State University, I see first - hand the stressors and skill deficits that put many students at risk of falling short of their potential.

Rehabilitation Services are provided for clients to work on developing skills that they have deficits in, such as anger management, hygiene, patience, and social skills.

Stephen Magura and Alexandre Laudet argue that in - utero exposure to cocaine and other drugs can lead to congenital deficits that may make a child more difficult to care for and, therefore, more prone to being maltreated.9 Parenting skills can also suffer among substance - abusing parents, who may be insufficiently responsive to their infants.10 Caregivers who abuse substances also may place a higher priority on their drug use than on caring for their children, which can lead them to neglect their children's needs for such things as food, clothing, hygiene, and medical care.

Sadeh and Gruber (2002) report outcomes such as reduced educational attainment, inability to concentrate and deficits in social skills in adolescents under stress who have disturbed sleep.

For example, there is at least some evidence to suggest that certain forms of anxiety (i.e., social anxiety) might be more strongly associated with social skills deficits than others (i.e., generalized anxiety).36, 37 As well, there has been little research explicitly exploring the role peers might play in early intervention programs designed to assist young anxious and depressive children.

As a result, they tend to spend more time onlooking (watching other children without joining) and hovering on the edge of social groups.8, 11 There is some evidence to suggest that young depressive children also experience social impairment.12 For example, children who display greater depressive symptoms are more likely to be rejected by peers.10 Moreover, deficits in social skills (e.g., social participation, leadership) and peer victimization predict depressive symptoms in childhood.13, 14 There is also substantial longitudinal evidence linking social withdrawal in childhood with the later development of more significant internalizing problems.15, 16,17 For example, Katz and colleagues18 followed over 700 children from early childhood to young adulthood and described a pathway linking social withdrawal at age 5 years — to social difficulties with peers at age 15 years — to diagnoses of depression at age 20 years.

As well, both anxious and depressive young children demonstrate deficits in social skills (e.g., making eye contact, initiating conversational requests) that may further impede their abilities to participate in peer activities.8, 9,10

These problems include attention deficit disorder; externalizing problems such as aggression, anger, conduct disorder, cruelty to animals, destructiveness, oppositional behavior and noncompliance, and drug and alcohol use; internalizing problems such as anxiety, depression, excessive clinging, fears, shyness, low self - esteem, passivity and withdrawal, self - blame, sadness, and suicidal tendencies; symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder such as flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety and hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, numbing of affect, and guilt; separation anxiety; social behavior and competence problems such as poor problem - solving skills, low empathy, deficits in social skills, acceptance, and perpetration of violence in relationships; school problems such as poor academic performance, poor conduct, and truancy; somatic problems such as headaches, bedwetting, insomnia, and ulcers; and obsessive - compulsive disorder and other assorted temperamental difficulties.

With discussion of integrative play treatment of children presenting a wide variety of problems and disorders — including aggression issues, the effects of trauma, ADHD, anxiety, obsessive - compulsive disorders, social skills deficits, medical issues such as HIV / AIDS, and more — the book provides guidance on:

Given the additional disability and common co-occurrence of anxiety in ASD, we developed a manual - based cognitive - behavioral treatment program to target anxiety symptoms as well as social skill deficits in adolescents with ASD [Multimodal Anxiety and Social Skills Intervention: MASSI].

Objectively identify impediments and supports to successful parenting, and specific parenting skill deficits, so as to design a comprehensive family intervention.

As these deficits / challenges are identified, necessary skills / strategies / supports are also identified.

Needless to say, I prefer to think of them as skill deficits.

The Social Communication Disorders Checklist (SCDC [43]-RRB- is a one - dimensional 12 - item scale for measuring social cognition as manifested in social and communication deficits in social reciprocity, non-verbal skills and pragmatic language usage.

Attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic, debilitating disorder which may impact upon many aspects of an individual's life, including academic difficulties, 1 social skills problems, 2 and strained parent - child relationships.3 Whereas it was previously thought that children eventually outgrow ADHD, recent studies suggest that 30 — 60 % of affected individuals continue to show significant symptoms of the disorder into adulthood.4 Children with the disorder are at greater risk for longer term negative outcomes, such as lower educational and employment attainment.5 A vital consideration in the effective treatment of ADHD is how the disorder affects the daily lives of children, young people, and their families.

As expected, the ASD group displayed lower levels of social skills and social competence but higher levels of social problems and social anxiety as compared to the clinical and non-clinical control groups, which is hardly surprising given that deficits in social functioning are one of the defining features of autism spectrum problems [8, 9As expected, the ASD group displayed lower levels of social skills and social competence but higher levels of social problems and social anxiety as compared to the clinical and non-clinical control groups, which is hardly surprising given that deficits in social functioning are one of the defining features of autism spectrum problems [8, 9as compared to the clinical and non-clinical control groups, which is hardly surprising given that deficits in social functioning are one of the defining features of autism spectrum problems [8, 9].

However the Government must ensure that it goes beyond leadership and addresses fundamental capacity issues such as resourcing and skill deficits, including basic administrative and financial skills.

One factor limiting a positive peer response is that negative reputations develop quickly within peer groups and, once established, are hard to dispel.37 Such reputations are used to defend ongoing exclusion or victimization of rejected children, even if the behaviors that initially led to rejection are no longer present.20 In addition, negative reputations often become self - fulfilling prophecies as rejected children with both social skill deficits and behavioral problems get caught in «a downward [spiral]» 38 (p385).