scholarly journals LIFE SKILLS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND YOUTH WITHOUT DISABILITIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
Izeta Husić-Đuzić ◽  
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Ševala Tulumović ◽  
Vesna Bratovčić ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Early Age ◽  
P Values ◽  
Significant Statistical Difference ◽  
Parametric Statistics ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Training

The aim of this paper is to determine the differences in life skills of young people with and without disability in chronological age from 18-35 year-old in Tuzla Canton. The respondents sample consists of two sub-samples. First sub-sample contains 50 young people with disability, chronological age from 18-35 of both genders. Second sub-sample contained 50 young people without disability, chronological age from 18- 35 of both genders. Research data were analysed using method of parametric and non-parametric statistics. Frequencies, percentages and measures of central tendency have been calculated (arithmetic mean and standard deviation). P-values have been used for examining the difference between variables and variance analysis has been used for examining the importance of differences. The results show that there is a significant statistical difference between young people with and without disabilities in the of life skills assessed: job retention skills, skills to cope in danger. Based on the results obtained, it is recommended to start the program and training in early age which will make life easier to disabled persons and their families.

The Functions of the Chinese Communist Youth Leagues (1920–1949)

1962 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 75-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus H. Pringsheim
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young People ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Boy Scouts ◽  
Political Group ◽  
Chambers Of Commerce ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The U.S

The activities and functions of youth organisations are important factors in the life of most, if not all, political movements of the twentieth century. This is true of totalitarian, as well as of more liberally conceived political movements; however, special attention and emphasis has been given to youth organisations in Fascist and Communist societies, where the young people have been forced, pressured, or cajoled into such organisations from an early age and subjected to powerful influences designed to make them faithful and reliable tools or willing helpers of the ruling group or party. Nazi Germany's Hitler Jugend, Fascist Italy's Ballilla, and Soviet Russia's Komsomol are the best known examples of the totalitarian variety of youth organisation. In non-totalitarian societies the young are also given the opportunity to join such groups as the Young Conservatives in the U.K., Young Republicans and Democrats in the U.S., Junior Chambers of Commerce, YMCA, YWCA, Boy Scouts and the like. The difference between youth organisations in the two types of societies, from the Western viewpoint, is that our youth organisations are primarily created for the sake of the young people, who join them voluntarily for the sense of participation and outlet for their energies and talents which such organisations can provide, whereas the totalitarian youth organisations are created for purposes pursued by the ruling political group in those societies, to mould the thinking of youngsters along the desired lines, and to establish an apparatus for control both of the young members and of their relatives and friends. From the Communist viewpoint however, Western youth organisations are politically unsophisticated picnic and camping clubs, which insufficiently prepare young people for the responsibilities facing them in later years and fail to provide them with the ideals for a “correct” political outlook.

scholarly journals DIFFERENCES IN THE PERCEPTION OF SOCIAL SUPPORT BETWEEN THE YOUTH WITH INVALIDITY AND THE YOUTH WITHOUT INVALIDITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Izeta Husić-Đuzić ◽  
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Ševala Tulumović ◽  
Vesna Bratovčić ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Life ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Arithmetic Mean ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Central Tendency ◽  
P Values ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Parametric And Nonparametric Statistics

The aim of this paper was to identify differences in the perception of social support for young people with and without disabilities in the age of 18-35 in the Tuzla Canton. The sample of examinees consists of two sub-classes. The first subsample is made of young people with disabilities, chronological age 18-35, both sexes (N = 50). The second subsample consists of young people with no disabilities, chronological age 18-35, both sexes (N = 50). The data obtained by the research were processed by the method of parametric and nonparametric statistics. The frequencies, percentages and measures of central tendency (arithmetic mean, standard deviation) are calculated. P-values were used to investigate the differences between the examined variables, and the variance analysis was used to investigate the significance of differences. The results of research on differences in the perception of social support among young people with disabilities and young people without disabilities show that there is a statistically significant difference in the most applied variables. Based on the results obtained in the case of youth with disabilities, it would be advisable to start with integration into social life at all levels.

Developing and evaluating the Teen-Strong life skills programme in Southern Thailand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Treenut Pummanee ◽  
Sopen Chunuan ◽  
Yacob G Tedla ◽  
Shutiwan Purinthrapibal ◽  
Nichara Chupon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
World Health ◽  
Control Group ◽  
P Values ◽  
Sexual Behaviours ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
Strong Programme

Summary Risk sexual behaviours are known as a threat to health and wellbeing of adolescents. Although there are standard sexual education curriculums in Thai schools, most schools use traditional teaching methods rather than participatory teaching activities. This study aimed to (i) develop ‘Teen-Strong’ programme by combining the concept of the World Health Organization’s life skills programme with Thai sexual education curriculum and (ii) investigate the association of Teen-Strong programme with knowledge and decision-making regarding risky sexual behaviours and teenage pregnancy in Thai adolescents. The Teen-Strong programme was developed by means of experts review and cognitive interviewing process and evaluated in 66 adolescents in Grades 7–9 from six schools in southern Thailand. Twenty-six students were assigned to the experimental group (attended Teen-Strong programme and standard sexual education) and 40 to the control group (attended only the standard sexual education). A pre–post-test quasi-experimental design was used and the Teen-Strong questionnaire (TSQ) was administered to measure knowledge and decision-making at three time points: before (T1), immediately after (T2) and 1 month after (T3) attending the programme. A 2 × 3 mixed-design ANOVA was used to analyse the data. TSQ scores in the experimental and control groups were higher at T2 and T3 as compared with T1. Mean increase in TSQ scores at T2 and T3 compared with T1 were significantly higher in the experiment than the control group [T2 vs. T1: t (64) = 4.07, p-values < 0.0001; T3 vs. T1: t (64) = 3.32, p-values = 0.017]. This study showed that Teen-Strong programme could increase adolescent’s knowledge and decision-making skills regarding risk sexual behaviours.

EFFECTS OF LIMITED HEARING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPEECH IN CHILDREN UNDER THREE YEARS OF AGE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1951 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
HENK C. HUIZING ◽  
DOREEN POLLACK
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Special Schools ◽  
Handicapped Children ◽  
Testing Procedures ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Clinical Conditions ◽  
And Training

Natural development of speech elements in acoustically handicapped children has been proved possible provided that the limited hearing is detected at a very early age by new testing procedures. It is achieved under clinical conditions by the use of individual hearing aids which provide auditory stimulation from the age of 2 years, or even earlier, upwards. Special treatment is necessary and training of the parents plays an important part. If a listening function is not established at an early age, there is the danger that children with limited hearing will ignore sound or will actually find it annoying. Future success is dependent on the hard of hearing child's being educated together with the normal speaking children, with the reservation that he will need special arrangements for speech therapy and speech reading. New specifications should be made concerning the admission of acoustically handicapped children into special schools and the considerations mentioned above should be applied.

Technical and vocational education and training and marginalised youths in post-conflict Sierra Leone: Trainees’ experiences and capacity to aspire

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-550
Author(s):  
Mitsuko Matsumoto
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Capabilities Approach ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Technical And Vocational Education ◽  
And Training ◽  
Capacity To Aspire

The article aims to build on current understandings of the experiences and aspirations of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) trainees in conflict-affected countries, focussing on the case study of Sierra Leone. Employing the capabilities approach pioneered by Amartya Sen, it casts light on the different benefits beyond employability which young people acquire through TVET. This includes the development of their ‘capacity to aspire’. At the same time, the article shows the poor conditions and social stigma that continue to surround TVET and the profession of ‘skilled man’ in the country of Sierra Leone. By doing so, the article shows the potential of capabilities approach and the concept of ‘capacity to aspire’ to more systematically look at the wider benefits of TVET to young people. It also reveals the simplistic nature of the international community’s expectations with regards to TVET’s role in post-conflict societies.

Should a Special Educator Entertain Volunteers? Interdependence in Rural America

1984 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence W. Marrs
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Special Educator ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Service Delivery Systems ◽  
And Training

Rural communities have a tradition of helping each other and of shared interdependence. The National Rural Independent Living Network is developing Community Independent Living Service Delivery Systems in over 500 communities by 1986. Strategies are provided for designing a volunteer program, recruiting and training volunteers, and linking volunteers with disabled persons.

Race, Gender, and Genre in Spec Ops: The Line

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soraya Murray
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Collateral Damage ◽  
Gaming Industry ◽  
Francis Ford Coppola ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
Cost Of War ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
And Training

Spec Ops: The Line (Yager Development, 2012) is widely regarded by game critics as an antiwar statement, an Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) of video games; or, at the very least, one critical of its genre conventions. While most military shooter games are seen as inuring young people to violence and functioning as military simulations, or as recruitment and training tools, The Line presents ethical quandaries, unwinnable scenarios, collateral damage, and the psychological cost of war. This article considers the racialized world-making of an Arab mega-city in ruins as a new heart of darkness, a mythic American construction of militarized masculinity that becomes profoundly troubled under the duress of inglorious conflict, as well as the mobilization of women and children as symbols of victimhood to rationalize a military response. Through its analysis of gameplay, story, and the game's convincing sense of place, this article considers the significance of the physical rubble and moral ruin visualized in Spec Ops: The Line within the context of the gaming industry.

scholarly journals A Study of Emotional Intelligence Based Instructional Leadership Styles and related Indicators at University Level in Pakistan

2016 ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Irfan Bashir Et al.,
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Free Communication ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
University Level ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Training

The paper aimed to explore the use of different indicators of Emotional Intelligence based six leadership styles by the Heads of the Departments (HoDs) of Higher Education Institutes of Pakistan. Furthermore, the purpose was to compare self-report of HoDs regarding leadership styles and opinion of the faculty about leadership styles used by HoDs. This descriptive research used a random sampling technique to select 120 HoDs and 240 faculty members from various faculties and departments of 5 public and 5 private Sector universities of Punjab. The study used 5 point Likert Scale questionnaires based on Goleman’s leadership styles both for faculty and Heads of the Departments. Results of the study showed the difference between self-reported leadership styles of HoDs and opinion of the faculty. The study mainly suggested leadership courses and training for Heads of the Departments; strong and free communication between HoDs and the faculty; and reflective practices by Heads of the Departments.

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