Parent Perceptions of Inclusive Practices for Their Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities

1998 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Palmer ◽  
Sharon A. Borthwick-Duffy ◽  
Keith Widaman
Keyword(s):  
Recent Trend ◽  
Cognitive Disabilities ◽  
Parent Perceptions ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Significant Cognitive Disabilities ◽  
Educational Placements ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

While there has been a recent trend toward inclusive educational placements for students with significant cognitive disabilities, little information exists regarding parent perceptions of such practices. This article reviews the construction and analysis of a scale designed to encourage research in this area. An examination of three dimensions of perceptions assessed by the scale found that parents were more positive regarding the impact of inclusion on mutual social benefits, acceptance, and treatment of their child and more apprehensive regarding the impact of inclusion on the quality of educational services their child receives. Discussion includes how these findings may offer insight into reasoning used by some parents when considering the benefits of more inclusive educational placements for their own children.

The F–PEC Scale of Family Influence: Construction, Validation, and Further Implication for Theory

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine B. Klein ◽  
Joseph H. Astrachan ◽  
Kosmas X. Smyrnios
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

For a solution to the family business definition dilemma, we propose the application of a scale that assesses the extent and the quality of family influence via the measurement of three dimensions: Power, Experience, and Culture. The Family Influence on Power, Experience, and Culture (F–PEC) scale is tested rigorously, utilizing a sample of more than 1,000 randomly selected companies, through the application of exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic techniques. The scale demonstrates high levels of reliability. F–PEC has been applied in a number of studies, contributing to theory development, particularly in terms of the impact of family influence on distinct resources, and as a source of competitive advantage.

Preoperative Insight Into the Quality of Radial Artery Grafts

Angiology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (9) ◽  
pp. 790-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petar Vukovic ◽  
Miodrag Peric ◽  
Sandra Radak ◽  
Nikola Aleksic ◽  
Dragana Unic-Stojanovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radial Artery ◽  
Neointimal Hyperplasia ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Rejection Rate ◽  
Allen Test ◽  
Forearm Circulation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Artery Conduit

We investigated the impact of preoperative ultrasonography of the forearm circulation on radial artery conduit selection. Preoperative ultrasound of the forearm circulation was performed routinely in 536 patients planned for radial artery harvesting. The safety assessment of the harvest included the following algorithm of tests: the ultrasound, the Allen test, and pulse oximetry. The quality criteria that were used to exclude a radial artery from harvesting were small size of the artery, diffuse atherosclerosis, calcifications, and severe neointimal hyperplasia. The overall rejection rate due to safety reasons was 16.4%. Seventy-one (13.2%) radial arteries did not fulfill the conduit quality criteria and consequently these arteries were not harvested. In 13.4% of radial arteries, localized arterial wall disease was found in the distal third of the artery. The distal part of the artery was discarded and the rest was used as a conduit. Our results indicate that the ultrasound provides an accurate preoperative insight into the radial artery morphology, enabling selection of the arteries with favorable morphological features.

scholarly journals Quality problems and preventive measures for municipal road and bridge construction

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanlong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Bridge Construction ◽  
The Impact

In the process of construction of municipal roads and bridges, it is especially important for the construction of waterproof roadbed. If the leakage of waterproof foundation surface will inevitably lead to the impact of the quality of roads and bridges, not only the economic and social benefits of the enterprise be lost but also threaten the safety of pedestrians' lives and property. Therefore, this paper analyzes the influencing factors in the waterproof roadbed surface of municipal road bridge construction, and proposes corresponding solutions.

scholarly journals Patient and Clinician experiences and opinions of the use of a novel home use medical device in the treatment of peripheral vascular disease - a qualitative study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte E Sedgwick ◽  
Charlotte Growcott ◽  
Shehnaz Akhtar ◽  
Daniel Parker ◽  
Erik Mulder Pettersen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Device ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Design Modification ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Clinician Experiences ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract BackgroundPeripheral vascular diseases have a significant impact on functional quality of life (QoL). Previous research has demonstrated the complex, limiting and costly economic implications of these conditions such as lower limb ulceration chronicity and ischaemic amputation. These complex, limb and life threatening conditions demand the development of novel interventions with objective research as part of that development. Hence, a novel intermittent negative pressure medical device in the form of a wearable boot (FlowOx™) was developed. As part of the development process, this study aimed to explore patient and clinician opinions of the boot.MethodsA qualitative approach was used to collect patient and clinician experiences in Norway. An advisory group informed the semi-structured questions used in seven patient interviews and one clinician focus group (n = 5). The data were recorded digitally and transcribed verbatim. Patient and clinician data were analysed as distinct groups using a thematic process.ResultsData analysis resulted in five themes from the patients which gave insight into; the impact of the disease process; practicalities of using the boot, positive experiences of use; perceived outcomes; reflecting on use. Six themes were created from the clinicians. These gave insight into; ideal outcomes and how to measure them; ways to potentially use the boot; using research in healthcare; positives of the device; observed effects and next steps; potential improvements to the device.ConclusionThis study provides insight into the experiences and opinions of FlowOx™. Patients and clinicians were positive about the device due to its ease of use. Those patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) experienced significantly more benefit, especially for ischaemic ulceration than those with a chronic venous condition. Clinicians placed value on the patient reported outcomes in the treatment decision-making process. This preliminary study into experiences of FlowOx™ use provides valuable feedback that will inform design modification and ongoing research into implementation points and prospective user groups. FlowOx™ demonstrates potential as a conservative therapy offering users a convenient, home use, self-care management solution for improving symptomatic PAD and quality of life (QoL).

scholarly journals A theoretical approach to auditor independence and audit quality

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-141
Author(s):  
Rahman Yakubu ◽  
Tracey Williams
Keyword(s):  
Audit Committee ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Audit Fees ◽  
Auditor Independence ◽  
Accounting Scandals ◽  
Audit Firms ◽  
Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Auditor independence and the quality of audit report is of growing concern to regulators, institutional investors and stakeholders as a series of accounting scandals have undermined the professionalism of auditors. The findings from this study produced an insight of how auditor’s independence improve audit quality and that abnormal audit fees is as a result of additional effort for auditor to carry out rigorous audit engagement as a result of wider audit scope; that mandatory audit firm rotation will enhance auditor independence, and that audit committee with nonexecutive independence will promote audit quality. The study also finds that in terms of auditor size, smaller audit firms that belong to professional bodies will provide higher audit quality. The main conclusion of this research is that where an auditor is fully independent in carrying out audit engagement with strong resistance to fees pressure will enhance audit quality. This research provides insight into the impact of IFRS adoption on audit fees.

Parents' Perceptions of the Overall Impact of Stuttering on Young Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Linn Stokke Guttormsen ◽  
J. Scott Yaruss ◽  
Kari-Anne Bottegård Næss
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Adverse Impact ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Point Scale ◽  
Cognitive Reactions ◽  
Communication Difficulties ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Insight Into

Introduction Research has revealed the presence of emotional, behavioral, and cognitive reactions in young children who stutter; however, prior studies have not examined the overall impact of stuttering on young children's lives. Such information is necessary for improving understanding of how stuttering affects young children and for ensuring appropriate early intervention. Method This study employed an adaptation of the Overall Assessment of the Speaker's Experience of Stuttering for School-Age Children that was designed to ask parents about their perceptions of the impact of stuttering on their young children. Thirty-eight parents of young children who stutter (2–5 years of age) provided their perceptions of the impact of stuttering on their children. Parents rated how certain they were in their judgments using a 5-point scale to provide an indication of their confidence in proxy ratings of impact. Results Results indicated that, on average, parents perceived that stuttering affected their children negatively. Qualitatively, parents provided descriptions of the impact of stuttering on their children's quality of life, communication difficulties across people and situations, and reactions to stuttering; they also commented on their own feelings and strategies for handling impact. On average, parents perceived themselves to be certain in rating the impact of stuttering on their children. Conclusions Results indicated that parents identified adverse impact in their children's lives. Even though parents considered themselves to be certain in their impact ratings, clinicians and researchers should also assess the perspective of the children if appropriate. This is because present findings reveal that parents may not have insight into all aspects of impact, in particular, cognitive reactions to stuttering. Still, parents' perceptions of impact are important for clinicians to consider when giving recommendations for therapy, as they can provide important insight into the family's needs.

The struggle for good care: moral challenges during the COVID-19 lockdown of Dutch elderly care facilities

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy van der Geugten ◽  
Gaby Jacobs ◽  
Anne Goossensen
Keyword(s):  
Moral Distress ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Personal Ethics ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

The COVID-19 lockdown of Dutch long-term care facilities between March and May 2020 affected the quality of lives of residents and opposed professional and personal ethics of care. This article, based on 25 in-depth interviews with healthcare chaplains, gives insight into what moral challenges appeared for care professionals. Moral challenges were related to: ‘family ruptures’, ‘residents’ loneliness and despair’, ‘cold-hearted deaths’ and ‘response and responsibilities’. The findings illuminate the complexity of providing care during the lockdown and show variation in the impact of these ethical experiences, in which both moral distress and moral resilience occurred.

Dancing in chains: Creative practices in/of organizations

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 899-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günther Ortmann ◽  
Jörg Sydow
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Insight Into

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, artists impose restrictions on themselves to encourage creativity and even have a way of “making things difficult” – imposing new constraints on themselves within which they have to dance. At least in the arts, it is difficulty rather than ease which promotes creativity in accordance with this view. This goes beyond the well-known idea of rules and other structures not only restricting but also enabling creativity; it also goes beyond insight into the creativity-enhancing effects of constraints, as recently emphasized in organization studies. Nietzsche adds three dimensions to this dialectic: time and the process of dancing inspired and encouraged by constraints; the opposition of old and new constraints; and the quality of intended, stimulating self-binding. We see this as an opportunity to explore the inspiring potential of Nietzsche’s piece about arts, “Dancing in chains”, when it comes to the different realm of creative practices and creativity in and of organizations. Such an exploration can obviously not aim to offer recipes of how to bring about valuable novelty, but simply intends to identify pertinent themes, issues and questions for organization studies – topics and aspects brought into a new or sharper light when looked at from Nietzsche’s perspective and that of some other philosophers, including Jon Elster’s analyses of constraints in general and of the complications of self-binding in order to promote creativity in particular. Also, we consider Míchel de Certeau’s “silent production” and Martha Feldman’s improvisational routines as being cases of “dancing in chains”.

scholarly journals Evaluation of an Algorithm for Automatic Grading of Forum Messages in MOOC Discussion Forums

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9364
Author(s):  
Raquel L. Pérez-Nicolás ◽  
Carlos Alario-Hoyos ◽  
Iria Estévez-Ayres ◽  
Pedro Manuel Moreno-Marcos ◽  
Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Courses ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Automatic Assessment ◽  
Automatic Grading ◽  
The Impact

Discussion forums are a valuable source of information in educational platforms such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), as users can exchange opinions or even help other students in an asynchronous way, contributing to the sustainability of MOOCs even with low interaction from the instructor. Therefore, the use of the forum messages to get insights about students’ performance in a course is interesting. This article presents an automatic grading approach that can be used to assess learners through their interactions in the forum. The approach is based on the combination of three dimensions: (1) the quality of the content of the interactions, (2) the impact of the interactions, and (3) the user’s activity in the forum. The evaluation of the approach compares the assessment by experts with the automatic assessment obtaining a high accuracy of 0.8068 and Normalized Root Mean Square Error (NRMSE) of 0.1799, which outperforms previous existing approaches. Future research work can try to improve the automatic grading by the training of the indicators of the approach depending on the MOOCs or the combination with text mining techniques.

scholarly journals Student’s Satisfaction of the Quality of Online Learning in Higher Education: An Empirical Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 11960
Author(s):  
Carmen Jiménez-Bucarey ◽  
Ángel Acevedo-Duque ◽  
Sheyla Müller-Pérez ◽  
Luis Aguilar-Gallardo ◽  
Miguel Mora-Moscoso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Technical Service ◽  
The Impact

Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been facing a digital transformation in online learning as a result of the restrictions generated by COVID-19. Therefore, identifying which are the elements that influence student satisfaction will allow HEIs to establish strategies to ensure the quality of the digital transformation. This study proposes a model that measures student satisfaction considering three dimensions: teacher quality, technical service quality and service quality. Then, the impact of each dimension on student satisfaction is estimated using a Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM), and finally an Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) was performed to identify the improvements that should be made to increase student satisfaction. When analyzing the responses of 1430 students at the School of Medicine, it was found that the quality of technical service should be improved, specifically training, and encouraging teachers to use strategies that allow student participation.

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