Sentences with phrase «studies of social skills»

Larger, controlled studies of social skills training groups would be valuable.

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Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

The studies warn, «High inequality can diminish economic growth if it means that the country is not fully using the skills and capabilities of all its citizens or if it undermines social cohesion, leading to increased social tensions.

Studying the humanities offers students «mental empowerment» so that they can go forward in life armed with «a sense of social responsibility» and «intellectual and practical skills that span all areas of study, such as communication, analytical and problem - solving skills, and a demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and skills in real - world settings.»

A job search led me to a position as a ministry - based social worker for an organization that provided job skills, mentoring, childcare and Bible study for low income women in the inner city of Nashville.

She has published curriculum and articles in the areas of special education, social studies, English, educational computing, ESL, multi-cultural education, study skills, and classroom organization.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

Most of those years were with 7th graders, but at some point in her teaching she taught every grade except 11th in some capacity or another including German, social studies, multi-cultural education, ELD, adolescent skills and character education.

Studies have shown that simply eating dinner together regularly with kids is associated with numerous benefits for kids, including better grades, reduced risk of obesity, and better mental, social, and emotional skills.

Children of such parents suffer from low self - esteem, poor social skills and do moderately well in studies, with some suffering from high levels of depression.

In a fourteen - year study, the preschool children of mothers who described a picture using emotional language showed more empathy and better social skills when they got older.

According to the study of Kassle and colleagues (2006), individuals with insecure attachments lack necessary skills to form social relationships which will lead them to anxiety and distress.

Historians and social researchers have studied how the specific skills and bodily and mental capacities that have to be cultivated and practiced if specific forms of violence are to be engaged in are acquired.

A study by researchers at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues at Paris Descartes University assessed the association between the amount of time spent playing video games and children's mental health and cognitive and social skills, and found that playing video games may have positive effects on young children.

According to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASDs improve their social skills and interactions with other people.

These kinds of social skills typically are difficult for kids with autism, but this study showed children's assertiveness was greater if they lived with a pet.»

In studies of women with only one X chromosome, he found that test subjects who inherited their X chromosome from their fathers had better social skills than those who inherited their X chromosome from their mothers.

That's the conclusion of a new study, the first to show that human activities can disrupt the social skills of large - brained mammals that live in complex societies for decades.

Vitamin D deficiency in expectant mothers during pregnancy has a negative effect on the social development and motor skills of pre-school age children, a new study in the British Journal of Nutrition reports.

Lonely individuals who are shy or have low social support may turn to Facebook to compensate for their lack of social skills and / or social networks in face - to - face settings,» according to the study» findings.

ESDM is the first early intervention for toddlers with ASD to undergo controlled clinical study of intensive early intervention and has demonstrated both improvement of social skills and brain responses to social stimuli.

Children's social skills may be declining as they have less time for face - to - face interaction due to their increased use of digital media, according to a UCLA psychology study.

«We know these programs have an immediate positive effect so this study wanted to assess whether the skills stuck with students over time, making social - emotional learning programs a worthwhile investment of time and financial resources in schools.»

In a new study, researchers from GAMUT, Uni Research Health and University of Bergen, could show that the quality of the therapeutic relationship predicts generalized changes in social skills in children diagnosed with an autism spectrum condition (ASC).

That's because people with poor social skills tend to experience more stress and loneliness, both of which can negatively impact health, said study author Chris Segrin, head of the UA Department of Communication.

There is a tendency to highlight the importance of cognitive achievements and the family's socioeconomic background for people's success in the future, but this study shows that children's self - regulation, which comprises children's social skills and processing of emotions, directs the future development in a profound way in different domains of life.

The first study of its kind to examine perception after plastic surgery finds that women who have certain procedures are perceived as having greater social skills and are more likeable, attractive and feminine.

Distributed and collected by postal mail during the summer of 2012, the study was designed to assess the extent to which young adults monitor their self - presentation on social media networks and their privacy - related Internet skills and knowledge.

This new study brings light to the links between premature birth, development of social communication skills, and ultimately autism.

The study involved three individuals with Asperger's Syndrome, a diagnosis that reflects average or above average language skills, but impaired social skills and patterns of behaviors and interests.

For employees with great self - centered impulsivity, the study showed a completely different picture: Their colleagues consistently described them as destructive in their dealings, not very helpful, and weak in performance — regardless of their social skills.

Mar. 14, 2014 — A brain - mapping study of patients with schizophrenia has found that areas associated with the ability to imitate are impaired, providing new support for the theory that deficits in this basic cognitive skill may underlie the profound difficulty with social interactions that characterize the disorder.

In a study by the Lancet, it was found that women who consumed more fish oil gave birth to children that scored higher in terms of IQ, pro-social behavior, fine motor skills, communication, and social level.

From a study of 60 characters from literature, film and television, we scored characters on each of eHarmony's key personality dimensions needed for a successful relationship, including emotional temperament, social style and relationship skills.

Developing Skills for Economic Transformation and Social Harmony in China: A Study of Yunnan Province.

Dating sites track their users for a variety Autism And Online Dating Immunizations and the Impacts of Virtual Reality: Two New Findings on Autism — How Boosting Social Skills May Change the Brain A separate study published... The Arc's Autism Now Center is the nation's source for resources and information on community - based solutions for individuals with autism, other developmental disabilities, and their families.

The study, conducted by an independent consultant, concluded that by the end of the school year, the Jumpstart students had caught up to or surpassed their peers in language, social, and adaptive skills.

And in a similarly placed story (on the Times front page) a couple of weeks before Rich's, colleague Pam Belluck reported that a new study in the journal Science had found that «after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to read someone's body language or gauge what they might be thinking.»)

I use all of these myself as a head of PSHE, Social Studies and Life Skills and I really hope you find them excellent value.

The Linked Learning initiative is building a half - dozen or more career pathways in each of nine school districts, on the theory that students can get all the math, English, science, and social studies they need for a university, along with technical and job skills, but do it in a way that makes learning more fun and gives them real, relevant work experience.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

The teachers of the subjects with high - stakes tests want as much time as possible to work with students on those skills while social studies teachers want the same respect for their content and the time to teach it well.

A recent study in the American Journal of Public Health revealed a direct link between children's social and emotional skills and their success across a wide range of health, social, and economic measures.

They read a novel about life in urban America, they write letters to city council members and state representatives, the compile statistics to support their arguments in their letters; in short, they use their discipline - based skills of scientific inquiry, math, literacy, social studies and health to do what people in the real world do — synthesize the skills and knowledge in a meaningful way.

Under a state plan to turn around James Lick High School, a persistently failing school in San Jose, low - performing students in those grades will be put in intensive skills classes, leaving some of them little time to pursue science, social studies, physical education,...

Yet the education field might still find a way to screw this up — because it thinks of reading as a «skill,» because of its fealty to the «social studies» ideology, and over concerns about what's «developmentally appropriate.»

A new study that looked at a more than 20 - year - old program designed to build social and emotional skills in young children found a surprising outcome: Participants had a higher likelihood of voting later in life.

For 11 years, Bub worked closely with Dean Kathleen McCartney as a research assistant on the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, which further opened her eyes to the effects of high - quality early education experiences on children's social, behavioral, and cognitive skills.

I have been teaching embroidery for many years and have found that this art form, besides teaching many artistic skills, also teaches concentration, accuracy, dexterity, persistence, responsibility, community spirit, social studies and history and a love of creativity.

Social studies students don't need a lot of technical skills, but they do need to know some of the basics about what it's like to be on the radio.