Advances in Early Communication and Language Intervention

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann P. Kaiser ◽  
Megan Y. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language Intervention ◽  
Developmental Task ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Early Communication ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language Interventions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

Learning to communicate using speech and language is a primary developmental task for young children. Delays in the acquisition of language are one of the earliest indicators of developmental deficits that may affect academic and social outcomes for individuals across the life span. In the period since the passage of PL 99-457, significant progress in research related to language intervention has been made in five areas: (a) the social, symbolic, and prelinguistic foundations to spoken language; (b) parent-implemented language interventions; (c) the language foundations for literacy; (d) the relationship between language and social behavior; and (e) the use of augmented and alternative modes of communication. Although there are indications of important advances in the knowledge base of early identification as well as comprehensive and continuous intervention, preparing professionals to provide effective interventions in natural environments continues to be a challenge for the field.

Spaces of Consumption in American Literary Realism

2019 ◽  
pp. 391-410
Author(s):  
Gary Totten
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Literary Realism ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Strategies

This chapter discusses how consumer culture affects the depiction and meaning of the natural world in the work of American realist writers. These writers illuminate the relationship between natural environments and the social expectations of consumer culture and reveal how such expectations transform natural space into what Henri Lefebvre terms “social space” implicated in the processes and power dynamics of production and consumption. The representation of nature as social space in realist works demonstrates the range of consequences such space holds for characters. Such space can both empower and oppress individuals, and rejecting or embracing it can deepen moral resolve, prompt a crisis of self, or result in one’s death. Characters’ attempts to escape social space and consumer culture also provide readers with new strategies for coping with their effects.

scholarly journals Everyday Aesthetics, Locality and Racialisation

2020 ◽  
pp. 174997552094942
Author(s):  
Andrew Smith ◽  
Bridget Byrne ◽  
Lindsey Garratt ◽  
Bethan Harries
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
Order And Disorder ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Local Space ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

In this essay we reflect on the relationship between aesthetic practices and racialised conceptions of belonging. In particular, we explore attributions of beauty and ugliness, order and disorder, as these are made in relation to local space, and we consider how these attributions can be linked to proprietorial claims about who is welcome in those spaces. Our focus is thus on the everyday aesthetics of location: the ways in which aesthetic judgements are tied to the inhabitation of space and, in this case, the exclusionary potential of ‘ways of looking’ at such spaces and at the social relations which exist within them. Drawing on data from qualitative research in two adjoining neighbourhoods in Glasgow’s Southside, we make three analytical contributions. First, we consider the racialising potential of everyday aesthetic responses to local space. Second, we explore the ways in which local social relations themselves can be aesthetically interpreted. Third, we reflect on forms of everyday aesthetic resistance.

scholarly journals “How Do They Even Know They Love?” The Image of Polyamory in Polish Expert Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 2829-2847
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Grunt-Mejer ◽  
Weronika Chańska
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Psychological Evaluation ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Scientific Objectivity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

Abstract The article presents the results of a thematic analysis of statements about polyamory made in the media by Polish psychology and sexology experts. The analysis was conducted on the basis of 20 pieces of material released in the Polish national press, radio, and television between July 2012 and October 2018. The results show that most of the analyzed experts approach polyamory with suspicion. In most cases, the decision to be in a polyamorous relationship is assessed very negatively, and in the eyes of the therapists it is evidence of psychological defects in people who make such attempts or it is seen as a harbinger of unfavorable outcomes for the relationship. This negative psychological evaluation is often accompanied by a strong moral assessment and a clear willingness to discourage society from this relationship model. The results show that representatives of psychology and medical sciences in the Polish media support and legitimize the social and moral order that promotes mono-normativity. The true reasons for the aforementioned negative assessment are hidden behind a veil of scientific objectivity.

scholarly journals Civility and diplomacy: Trust and dissimulation in transnational Afghan trading networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 175-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Marsden
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethical Virtue ◽  
Made In China ◽  
Trading Networks ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

This article explores the relationship between civility and diplomacy in the transnational commercial activities of traders from Afghanistan. The commodity traders on which the article focuses – most of whom are involved in the export and wholesale of commodities made in China – form long-distance networks that criss-cross multiple parts of Asia and are rooted in multiple trading nodes across the region, including the Chinese commercial city of Yiwu, Moscow and Odessa. Much scholarship associates both diplomacy and civility with impression management and dissimulation and therefore identifies such modes of behaviour as being inimical to the fashioning of enduring ties of trust. However, analysis of ethnographic material concerning the traders’ understandings of being diplomatic, as well as the ways in which they seek to conform to contested local notions of civility, furnishes unique insights into the ways in which they build the social relationships and ties of trust on which their commercial activities depend. By exploring the interrelationship between civility and diplomacy, the article seeks to move anthropological debate beyond the question of whether civility is either a form of artifice premised on performance or a deeper ethical virtue in and of itself. It suggests, rather, ambiguity, ambivalence, contradiction and imperfection are inbuilt aspects of the ways in which respect is communicated and evaluated, and ties of trust fashioned and maintained.

scholarly journals Perceptions and Social Values Regarding the Ecosystem Services of Beaches and Coastal Dunes in Yucatán, Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3592
Author(s):  
Gabriela Mendoza-González ◽  
Arely Paredes-Chi ◽  
Dalia Méndez-Funes ◽  
María Giraldo ◽  
Edgar Torres-Irineo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Coastal Dunes ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Relationship

The ecosystem services (ESs) approach has been used as a powerful tool for the analysis of socio-ecological systems to investigate the relationship between society and the environment. The aim of this article is to analyze the social perceptions of stakeholders, forms of use (sociocultural and economic), and the conservation of beaches and coastal dunes in Yucatán, Mexico. Interviews were held with focus groups to analyze the forms of use, social perceptions of stakeholders, and the conservation of beaches and coastal dunes in Yucatán, Mexico. The results indicate that these ecosystems are important to different types of activities related to regulating, provisioning, and cultural services. However, degradation is identified as a consequence of contamination and land-use change. The main identified threats are natural phenomena, followed by the presence of garbage, human presence in natural environments, infrastructure construction, and privatization of beaches. The opinions (e.g., conservation, ecosystem services provision, drivers of change), emotions (e.g., joy, fear, sadness), and knowledge of the local community and tourists with respect to these ecosystems were evidenced. In general, there is an absence of conservation and sustainable management projects. However, community perceptions provide an opportunity to outline public conservation strategies in which the community, as a component of these socio-ecosystems, can be fully involved in their implementation.

scholarly journals TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF SOIL OCCUPATION IN MUCURI WATERSHED BETWEEN 1989 AND 2015

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 58-68
Author(s):  
Rafael Alvarenga Almeida ◽  
Luan Viana dos Santos ◽  
Daniel Brasil Ferreria Pinto ◽  
Caio Mário Leal Ferraz
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anthropogenic Action ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Remote Sensing Techniques ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Land Use And Cover ◽  
Made In

Anthropogenic action has caused intense changes in land use and cover over the decades. Identifying and knowing these changes makes it possible to measure the impacts that can be generated as well as to identify patterns of the development of a particular region and the relationship between society and land use. Thus, it is intended to identify the changes made in the land use and occupation of the Mucuri river basin between 1989 and 2015. So, this study used remote sensing techniques and tools besides aerial photographs to map the region and to identify surface behavior. Within the Mucuri basin, the soil had been mostly occupied by classes of forest and agricultural area, consistent with the social and economic reality of the region over the last decades. The changes that have occurred indicate a reduction in water availability, growth in urban occupation and, in many cases, soil and vegetation cover deterioration.

Social needs of older people: a systematic literature review

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 1745-1770 ◽  
Author(s):  
TINA TEN BRUGGENCATE ◽  
KATRIEN G. LUIJKX ◽  
JANIENKE STURM
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Volunteer Work ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Health Problems ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTSocial needs are important basic human needs. When social needs are not satisfied, this can lead to mental and physical health problems. With a growing population of older adults and the need for them to stay healthy and community-dwelling, satisfying social needs is important. The aim of this review is to give more insight into the social needs of older people and subsequently into the characteristics of effective interventions for satisfying older people's social needs. A systematic review of the existing literature on quantitative, qualitative and mixed empirical studies on the social needs of older people was conducted. The themes that emerged were diversity, proximity, meaning of the relationship and reciprocity. These themes offered several intervention implications. Participation in hobbies and in volunteer work and being connected were among the main findings. The social needs of older people are diverse. They focus on both the intimate and the peripheral members of their networks. When satisfying social needs, reciprocity is important. The feeling of connectedness to others and to a community or neighbourhood contributes to wellbeing as well as a feeling of independence. Staying active by doing volunteer work or participating in (leisure) social activities satisfies social needs. Therefore, interventions should focus especially on the connectedness, participation and independence of the older adult.

scholarly journals The Influence of Social Support on Physical Activity in Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Exercise Self-Efficacy

Children ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhanbing Ren ◽  
Linlin Hu ◽  
Jane Jie Yu ◽  
Qian Yu ◽  
Sitong Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine the associations of social support and self-efficacy with physical Activity (PA) and the mediating effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between social support and PA in Chinese adolescents. Participants included a total of 2341 Chinese adolescents (aged 12.75 ± 1.46 years). Self-reported instruments, including the physical activity questionnaire for adolescents, the social support revalued scale and the exercise self-efficacy scale, were used to measure physical activity, social support and exercise self-efficacy. Results showed that social support (r = 0.29, p < 0.05) and exercise self-efficacy (r = 0.43, p < 0.05) were significant and positive predictors of PA among Chinese adolescents, and exercise self-efficacy was a significant mediator in the relationship between social support and PA (standardized effect size = 0.15, p < 0.001). Such findings were evident with similar patterns in both male and female adolescents. The findings of this study have indicated the importance of social support and exercise self-efficacy on PA promotion in adolescents, which will aid the development of effective interventions in this population.

scholarly journals Identity of Political Players in Game Theory

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (5 (68)) ◽  
pp. 115-129
Author(s):  
Piotr Łukomski
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Social World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Goal ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

The process of modelling political phenomena, subject to the methodological principles of science, creates problems at various levels of reconstructing reality. The problems result from the application of these principles in isolation from the basic goal, which is the adequacy of the model in relation to real phenomena. This adequacy is considered primarily from the point of view of the possibility of explaining the observed phenomena. The presented analysis concerns the problem of assumptions made in relation to players in game theory and their relation to the social world, but first of all, from the point of view of the relationship between subjectivity, identity and the ability to make decisions by political players based on the semantic interpretation of the world of politics.

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