If significant results are found, it will further demonstrate that animal - assisted interventions are
a valid approach for teaching children with ASD the skills necessary to engage with peers and will further support the role of the human - animal bond in advancing children with developmental delays.
«Animal - assisted interventions are
a valid approach for teaching children with autism spectrum disorders the skills necessary to engage with peers, family members, and the larger community.»
Not exact matches
As long as you have a plan or
valid method
for withdrawing retirement assets (or as long as you are
approaching or over age 59.5) I think those assets should «count» toward this metric.
I believe his intentions and
approach are excellent, but given how important this stuff is to anyone who uses it
for their future prosperity, I believe it's a
valid observation.
The only way to adequately gauge investment merit here is to have a
valid and historically reliable
approach for estimating prospective future market returns.
Thus Martin concludes,
for example, that N. T. Wright's
approach to Jesus, which mixes supernaturalism and ordinary biography, is just as historically
valid as Sanders's method, which does not deal with miracles or the resurrection — although, paradoxically Martin finds Wright's arguments about the resurrection very unconvincing.
Rather is it necessary to seek to trace the original kerygmatic meaning at work in this procedure, in order to reach a
valid kerygmatic
approach to the Gospels and a normative basis
for a modern quest of the historical Jesus.
Does such a mass
approach to Christian communication provide a
valid option
for Christian communication in a mass society, or does it reflect a capitulation of the essential aspects of the Christian faith to the demands of the economic environment, enabling, as Marshall Frady suggests, «one more advance of the front of totalitarian sensibility.»
Despite this consideration, the report, in the same chapter, recognizes the clear advantage of organic schemes in the educational role that they have played: «millions of consumers have been made aware of the way food markets work, and of the environmental impacts of food production, processing and distribution, and of the quality of the foods we eat» and it concludes that organic as well as fair trade and «short - chain strategies» are legitimate and
valid options
for both farmers and consumers and that policy can support these
approaches by helping farmers to achieve higher yields.
I will start by saying I respect both sides in this issue, and I think both an attachment
approach and a CIO
approach may be
valid for some babies in some situations.
Still, the basic
approach seems
valid for MANY different issue and electoral campaigns.
A more humble
approach may be called
for, one which concedes that rival viewpoints are
valid in a period where no section of the party yet has a convincing blueprint
for how Labour might regain office.
They found anti-RGMa antibody delayed the onset and attenuated the severity of clinical symptoms of NMO, suggesting that humanized anti-RGMa antibody is a potentially
valid therapeutic
approach for NMO.
Geiger cautioned that their results are
valid only
for the subtropical city of São Paulo, but the researchers» interdisciplinary
approach can be used to examine more complicated city situations.
Emile Okal at Northwestern University in Illinois cautions that this theoretical
approach may only be
valid for small earthquakes.
Given the weight of evidence in favor of consuming prebiotic foods, is the FODMAP - restricted diet a
valid and safe
approach for managing chronic digestive disease?
It's a
valid question — one that Kulreet Chaudhary, M.D., might have asked some years ago, back in medical school, before she had completely changed her
approach to healthcare, which eventually led her to pen this new book, The Prime: Prepare and Repair Your Body
for Spontaneous Weight Loss, released earlier this month.
His
approach towards medicine is that all medical tools are
valid and have their place, whether he is prescribing diet or drugs, exercise or surgery — the art of medicine
for the Naturopathic Medical Doctor is working with each patient to help select the
approach that is most right
for them,
for who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow.
Although this is a sometimes a
valid approach, more often the real target
for support should be the brain.
That seems like a smart
approach, especially
for indicators that are new and perhaps not yet «
valid and reliable.»
In such a forum, balancing can play a key role and they argue that the proper method
for assessing the new counter-terrorism laws, from a human rights perspective, is to adopt a «balancing
approach» according to which the importance of the relevant human right is weighed against the importance of the societal or community interest in deciding whether to take legislative action (or, from the position of a judge, in deciding whether a certain law is
valid).
«We need to be cautious in our
approach, however, to ensure any model
for measuring student growth is
valid, reliable and accounts
for extraneous variables, and is clearly defined
for all parties involved inclusive of the classroom teacher,» Brumley said in an email.
«We felt like a responsible
approach was to take the additional time to establish a
valid way of incorporating student growth into our statewide requirements
for teacher and principal evaluation before committing to the feds.
Kane and Cantrell concluded that the evidence suggests that value - added measures can be constructed to be
valid; others described the report as strong evidence of support
for this
approach.
Such an
approach, however, could require an unsavory amount of testing time.46 To date, few performance assessments
for social and emotional learning have been piloted at scale, and policymakers need more research to determine whether emerging tasks will be
valid and reliable measures.47
Based on rigorous research reviewed by the National Center on RTI at the American Institutes
for Research, the authors highlight several recommendations
for implementing RTI with fidelity: 1) Institute a continuum of instructional supports
for students through a multi-level prevention system, including primary prevention through high quality core instruction in the classroom, secondary prevention through supplementary interventions of moderate intensity
for students most at risk, and tertiary prevention through individualized interventions
for those who do not respond to secondary prevention
approaches; 2) employ universal screening through brief,
valid and reliable assessments; and 3) monitor student progress using research - based assessment tools.
This certainly is a
valid approach, especially
for investors with low risk tolerance.
That isn't to say that a setup without a rounded retest isn't
valid, but it does call
for a more cautious
approach.
It's a tough market, but you can make it tougher
for everyone else by
approaching it from a
valid angle that few others do.
The only way to adequately gauge investment merit here is to have a
valid and historically reliable
approach for estimating prospective future market returns.
Do you think following the Magic Formula literally by - the - book is a
valid investing
approach for an individual investor, assuming he or she believes that buying «cheap» and «good» companies will in the long run lead to good things?
Many airline loyalty programs today have one of two
approaches toward keeping miles
valid for redemption.
Of course, a strategy such as the one I used this year, pursuing Executive Platinum Status via Elite Qualifying Points, is still a very
valid approach (I made my 100k EQPs back in July by the way,
for anyone curious).
Beyond those two key elements, Ulzheimer explains, many
approaches are
valid, so long as they work
for you.
But our purpose and structure of the game did not seem
valid for the console so we had to make significant changes — the initial character, the
approach toward taking on new weapons and improving them — and we were in need of more puzzles which required changing the linear structure of the maps.
These amongst others are
valid reasons why Destiny 2 deserves to ride high on the GOTY list but the one thing that elevates Destiny 2 into the annals of gaming history,
for me, is its
approach to co-operative gaming.
The opening line is: «
For some time the only
valid approach to structural styles seemed to be to treat them as anti-art, to list everything they were not, in the manner of Ad Reinhardt, but without his leaven of wit and glancing profundity.»
The simple
approach is only
valid for the initial sea level response to large and rapid rise in global temperature, as sketched in Fig. 1 of my paper.
For this «moral hazard» argument to be
valid, we would have to believe that CDR
approaches will be able to not only catch up to other renewable technologies in cost within a short - time frame, but then continue to reduce costs more quickly.
I'm all ears
for arguments that claim to have the best, most reliable or
valid approach to problems, but the achievement of objectivity tends to be a rhetorical device, often used in opposition to what are declared as non - objective / non-scientific arguments, rather than something which can be defended on epistemic grounds.
The alarmists»
approach for some years has been to publicly deride the climate skeptics rather than present
valid arguments
for their so - called «consensus science.»
However, claims based on «eyeballing» and similar offered here in the thread by Mr. Coal - Magazine Editor, who is probably going to write his PhD thesis soon where he refutes global warming using «eyeballing», and by other «skeptics» are not a scientifically
valid approach to provide evidence
for the assertion of the «stopped» global warming.
I'd argue my
approach is essential to provide
valid and justifiable evidence
for yours to succeed.
Taken together, these two papers (and several similar ones, at least) should convince anyone that «A fundamental and societally relevant conclusion from these studies is that the use of the IPCC model predictions as a basis
for policy making is» a
valid and reasonable
approach.
In conclusion, it seems that
valid arguments can be made
for both the local and global
approach.
The traditional «behaviorist»
approach of punishing misbehavior and rewarding good behavior is based on animal research conducted in the 1940s and «50s modifying the behavior of lab rats and is not an appropriate treatment paradigm
for use with children and families, although concepts regarding the communication of authority hierarchies remain
valid.
An implication of this idea is that a holistic and relativistic
approach to human experience not only is a more
valid theory of human nature, but has important clinical implications
for helping people lead more fulfilling, energized lives.
The committee translation
approach provides a
valid method
for translation, the results however, showed that the instrument in both languages did not show item to item similarity or equivalence.
With regard to the sample size required
for valid application of this modeling
approach, we are hesitant to speak of sufficient sample sizes, since a large number of observations with little score variation over time (as in our second empirical application) does not necessarily provide richer information than a smaller sample with more fluctuations.