Browsing by Author "Stough, Laura M."
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Sangelkar, Shraddha Chandrakant (2011-10-21)Disability is seen as a result of an interaction between a person and that person's contextual factors. Viewing disability in the context of the built environment, a better design of this environment helps to reduce the ...
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Stough, Laura M.; Ducy, Elizabeth McAdams; Kang, Donghyun (2017)Purpose of review: This paper reviews the empirical literature on psychosocial factors relating to children with disabilities in the context of disaster or terrorism. Recent findings: Research indicates individuals with ...
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Stough, Laura M.; North, Carol S. (Frontline Medical Communications, 2018)BACKGROUND: It has been assumed that the mental health effects of repeated trauma should be incrementally greater than simple additive effects of separate trauma. However, repeated disasters afflicting the same population ...
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Su, Xiaoxia (2014-12-09)Research has documented that summer sports camps can provide opportunities for social and physical benefits for at-risk boys who are often from low-income families and vulnerable to academic failure. However, whether these ...
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Stough, Laura M.; Sharp, Amy N.; Resch, Aaron; Decker, Curt; Wilker, Nachama (Disasters, 2015)
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Sweet, Kayla S (2017-12-07)Building social skills: A qualitative study of relationships between stay-at-home fathers (SAHF) and their 2.5 to 4-year-old children is a presentation of two SAHF-child dyad case studies. With the rise in the number of ...
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Stough, Laura M.; Ducy, Elizabeth McAdams; Holt, Judith M. (2017-09)The role of social relationships, social networks, and social support in disaster contexts has been investigated extensively. However, few studies have examined how social relationships, networks, and support change for ...
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Stough, Laura M. (2018-09-15)Costa Rica is progressive in the area of special education. Special education services were formally established in 1939 when the Fernando Centeno Güell school for children with mental retardation was created near the ...
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Covington, Linda E. (2010-07-14)Coteaching is one instructional delivery model that purports to provide students with supports they need to succeed in the general education setting. This case study used qualitative methodology, which was supplemented by ...
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Stough, Laura M. (National Forum of Multicultural Issues Journal, 2009)Disaster risk is socially distributed in ways that reflect pre-existing inequalities, in that some groups are more prone to death, injury, economic loss, and psychological impairment in the wake of differing hazards. ...
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Montague, Marcia L.; Sweet, Kayla S.; Stough, Laura M.; Sharp, Amy N.; Miracle, Isabella (Journal of Emergency Management, 2022)Access to accurate, up-to-date information about resources and services is essential if survivors are to recover following disasters. Emergency managers need information about community resources to effectively plan ...
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Stough, Laura M.; Villarreal, Edgar; Castillo, Linda G. (Edwin Mellen, 2010)The undocumented status of many immigrants disfranchises them from receiving most of the state and federal support offered to other members of their community. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ...
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Stough, Laura M.; Ducy, Elizabeth M.; Kang, Donghyun; Lee, Sungyoon (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020)Scholars have solidly documented the importance of school safety for children experiencing disaster. However, research reviews and policy studies repeatedly report students with disabilities as excluded from consideration ...
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Grenwelge, Cheryl Hamilton (2011-08-08)Self-advocates and professionals in the field agree on the critical importance of providing self-advocacy and leadership training to youth with disabilities. Youth Leadership Forum (YLF) programs have been developed and ...
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Montague, Marcia (2011-02-22)The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the management practices of expert secondary general education teachers in inclusive classrooms. Specifically, expert teachers of classrooms who included students ...
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Breedlove, Lynette (2009-05-15)As the population of linguistically diverse students in schools increases, so should the representation of these students in gifted and talented programs. This is a struggle for many schools districts where the ethnic ...
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Stough, Laura M.; Aguirre-Roy, Ana Ruth (1997-09)Special education services in Costa Rica, Central America, have been affected by factors that most developing countries confront: shortages of trained personnel, the geographic isolation of a large sector of the population, ...
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Stough, Laura M.; Kelman, Ilan (Springer, 2018)Investigations have collectively established that disasters affect people with disabilities both disproportionately and negatively. Relevant research is reviewed by academic genesis areas in this chapter, namely; 1) ...
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Stough, Laura M.; Kelman, Ilan (Springer, 2017)Investigations have collectively established that disasters affect people with disabilities both disproportionately and negatively. Relevant research is reviewed by academic genesis areas in this chapter, namely; 1) ...
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Cole, Corinna V. (2010-07-14)This study investigated, through survey methodology, the instructional practices of teachers of English Language Learners (ELLs) with disabilities in Preschool Programs for Children with Disabilities (PPCD). These practices ...