scholarly journals The Effect of Using instructional computerized software on Educational Achievement in the Computer Skills Course for Students with Special Needs (Deaf and Mute) in Primary Stage in Jerash Governorate, Jordan and Their Attitudes towards it: أثر إستخدام البرمجية التعليمية على التحصيل الدراسي في مقرر مهارات الحاسوب لدى الطلاب ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة (الصم والبكم) المرحلة الإبتدائية في محافظة جرش بالأردن واتجاهاتهم نحوه

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anas Mustafa Al Atoum - Mokhtar Othman Siddiq
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Deaf Students ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Basic Level

Instructional computerized software, deafs, mutes students in Primary Schools The study aimed to prepare, design and produce an instructional computerized software to the deafs and mutes students in the primary schools, the study aimed also to identify the impact of using instructional computerized software on checking homework lessons and remaining of the impact of learning and attitudes among deafs and mutes students in the basic level in subject of PC’s skills. The researchers had developed a study unit through programming PowerPoint PC program to the 1st level. Also he conducted a Pro & Pre Test then analyzed the study contents through designed a questionnaire to measure the role of PC and using PC Software and its impact on processes of learning and education among deafs and mutes students.   The study conducted during the year (2012 – 2013) on deafs and mutes students at basic level withing the centers of Jerash for the special needs, the researcher followed the descriptive and analytical approach in additional to the experimental approach, the community sample consists of dump and deaf students at the basic level within the center of  Jerash for the special needs, the total numbers of community sample were 120 students, among them (50) students of basic level were selected as a study sample and divided into two groups : one of them is experimental and the other is a control group.   The study showed that there is a statistically significant at the level of ( P <0.05) to use PC in upgrading the ability of checking lessons of dump and deaf students at the basic level.  The researcher recommended for providing a tutorial software in all instiututes and programs of those with special needs with full concentration on providing the modern tools that considered the easiness of using and effectiveness of performance, in addition to necesscity of training to the teachers who teaching students with special needs on using these tutorial software besides, providing a technology specialist to teach those with special needs in every institute. 

Managing Portable Technologies for Special Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 977-987
Author(s):  
Lesley S. J. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Local State ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Academic Needs ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
The Impact

This chapter focuses on the management aspects of portable technologies for special education. Public education has a responsibility to insure that all students learn to the fullest feasible extent. Several pieces of legislation specifically address the academic needs of students with special needs. Part of that legal picture focuses on the role of technology. Increasingly, portable technologies provide multiple ways for students with special needs to have physical and intellectual access to information. Librarians are well positioned to manage those resources, and optimize their use by these student populations. Managers need to coordinate with stakeholders to ensure that collection development, instruction and other services support special education and align with policies at site, local, state and federal levels. Managers also need to ensure that library staff have the training to carry out these policies to optimize the impact of portable technologies for special education.

scholarly journals Bullying at Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Schools: The Implication for Role of Special Teachers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlina
Keyword(s):  
Women Students ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Inclusive Schools ◽  
Being Bullied

The article examines about students with special needs who are in inclusive schools that experience bullying by peers who without special needs. The purpose of this study was to describe the forms and patterns of bullying in students with special needs. Cognitive and self-perceptions factors associated with reports of peer victimization were also explored. Participants were 110 students including 56 student primary schools, 34 student junior schools and 20 student senior schools in inclusive schools. The results showed that bullying was carried out in the form of physical aggressiveness, shameful and racist behavior towards students with special needs and social isolation from peers, and attacks in the form of destruction of personal belongings. Bullying is more common in male students with special needs than women. Students with special needs self-reported significantly more incidents of being bullied than students without special needs. They experienced very significant intimidation. Socialization efforts are needed by special teachers specifically about rights and accessibility in education so that bullying in students with special needs does not occur again in inclusive schools.

scholarly journals The Learning Burden- Problem of Curriculum Load

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Kadambari Naniwadekar
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Behaviour Problems ◽  
Children With Special Needs ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
The Impact

Concerns regarding academic burden on students, especially students with special needs and unsatisfactory quality of learning has been talked about time and again. The problem has been discussed extensively by several committees, with several recommendations on reducing the academic burden on the students. But instead, the problem has grown more acute with the passing time and increased competition. This problem of academic burden manifests itself in many ways for our children with special needs, the most common being behaviour problems and sometimes academic under achievement. The situation has become worse over the years even with children  both typically developing and with special needs attending pre- schools carrying a bag full of books and notebooks. It is very hard to reconcile the rigorous ‘academic’ regime that is imposed on children with hearing impairment from an early age with the widespread complaint made about moving at the same pace with the typically developing children and competitive ethos of the later school years. The pernicious grip of this false argument manifests itself in strange preschool and primary schools practices like early emphasis on shapely writing, memorizing information and so on.  One message of this situation is that both the child and the teacher have lost the ‘joy of learning’. This study aimed at investigating the impact of overload or academic burden of the curriculum on children with hearing impairment and how it affects the psychological well being of these children. The study proposed to develop tool to identify the factors leading to stress in these children with special needs and then correlate with the academic performance and behaviour problems, if any.

Reducing the Social Stigma Associated with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Controlled Trial of an Intervention Program in a Turkish Community Sample

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Ayça Aktaç Gürbüz ◽  
Orçun YORULMAZ ◽  
Gülşah DURNA
Keyword(s):  
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Case Vignette ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Compulsive Disorder ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact

Scientific research into the reduction of stigmatization, particularly related to specific problems such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), is scarce. In the present study, we examine the impact of a video-based antistigma intervention program for OCD in a pretest-posttest control group research. After being randomly assigned to either an intervention (n= 101) or control group (n= 96), the participants reported their attitudes on a hypothetical case vignette before and after OCD vs. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) videos, and again six months later as a follow up assessment. The mixed design analyses for the group comparisons indicated that although there was no significant difference in the measures of the control group, the participants watching the anti-stigma OCD video, in which the focus was psychoeducation and interaction strategies, reported significantly lower scores on social distances and negative beliefs for the case vignettes they read, and this difference was maintained six months later. Then, the present results indicate the effectiveness of our anti-stigma intervention program for OCD. Interventions to reduce stigmatization can also be viewed as effective tools for changing the attitudes of people toward OCD, although further research and applications are needed related to specific disorders if a longlasting impact is to be achieved.

scholarly journals Lower peripheral blood Toll-like receptor 3 expression is associated with an unfavorable outcome in severe COVID-19 patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Clara Saad Menezes ◽  
Alicia Dudy Müller Veiga ◽  
Thais Martins de Lima ◽  
Suely Kunimi Kubo Ariga ◽  
Hermes Vieira Barbeiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Ventilation ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
World Health ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Pyrin Domain ◽  
Peripheral Blood Gene Expression ◽  
Severe Group ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe role of innate immunity in COVID-19 is not completely understood. Therefore, this study explored the impact of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection on the expression of Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRRs) in peripheral blood cells and their correlated cytokines. Seventy-nine patients with severe COVID-19 on admission, according to World Health Organization (WHO) classification, were divided into two groups: patients who needed mechanical ventilation and/or deceased (SEVERE, n = 50) and patients who used supplementary oxygen but not mechanical ventilation and survived (MILD, n = 29); a control group (CONTROL, n = 17) was also enrolled. In the peripheral blood, gene expression (mRNA) of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) 3, 4, 7, 8, and 9, retinoic-acid inducible gene I (RIGI), NOD-like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3), interferon alpha (IFN-α), interferon beta (IFN-β), interferon gamma (IFN-γ), interferon lambda (IFN-λ), pro-interleukin(IL)-1β (pro-IL-1β), and IL-18 was determined on admission, between 5–9 days, and between 10–15 days. Circulating cytokines in plasma were also measured. When compared to the COVID-19 MILD group, the COVID-19 SEVERE group had lower expression of TLR3 and overexpression of TLR4.

scholarly journals Physically Active Breaks in the Teaching Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-242
Author(s):  
Ivan Holik ◽  
Vesna Štemberger ◽  
Petra Pejić Papak ◽  
Vilko Petrić ◽  
Matea Kitak
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Active Breaks ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this research is to study the impact of physically active breaks, accompanied by video materials, on the level of pupils’ educational achievement and their attitudes toward physically active breaks during the teaching process in the classroom. The research lasted for two months, and the apposite sample consisted of a total of 38 pupils aged 10 to 11. The influence of physically active breaks on the educational achievement was estimated by the percentage of correct answers in the tasks of mathematics, while the Croatian version of the questionnaire Attitudes towards the Physical Activity Scale (APAS) was used for evaluating the attitudes toward physically active breaks with video materials. Differ ences between the initial and final measuring inside the same group were tested by the Student’s dependent sample t-test, while for differences between the experimental and control group the Student’s independent sample t-test was used. The obtained results showed that the ability to solve mathematical tasks in the experimental group has significantly improved when compared to the control one and that physically active breaks have a positive influence on the pupils’ attitudes toward physical activity. The implementation of physically active breaks into teaching has an impact on pupils’ productivity in the educational process, while at the same time their need for movement is fulfilled.

scholarly journals School Security and Safety for Students with Special Needs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: الأمن والسلامة المدرسية لطلاب ذوى الاحتياجات الخاصة فى المملكة العربية السعودية

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed bin Nasser al-Maatiq Al-Shahrani
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
School Safety ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
School Security ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Regular School ◽  
The Impact

The study aimed at evaluating the school safety and security which is necessary to protect students with special needs in Saudi Arabia. The analytical descriptive approach was used  and study was divided into two main chapters: The first chapter deals with the conceptual framework by identifying the meaning of school security and safety, and identifying the special needs group. Then in the next chapter the researcher analyzed the current reality in Saudi society and diagnose it. The negative effects of not integrating special needs students in schools, and concluding with the most important recommendations and mechanisms to remedy these problems, and design a plan of action to implement the study and set a timetable for it. Results: Children with special needs face several problems, including psychological, educational or social, and the integration of this group into society in general and in schools is a complex issue. Integration is defined as providing opportunities for children with disabilities to become involved in the special education system as a means of emphasizing the principle of equality Opportunities in education and aims to integrate in general to meet the special educational needs of children with disabilities within the framework of the regular school and according to the methods and methods and methods of educational studies and supervised by the provision of a specialized educational system in addition to the cadres of education in the public school and many studies pointed to the impact Consolidation and support, including those rejected as a result of several positive and negative trends.

scholarly journals The Impact of The Strategy Analog Thinking in acquiring Social Content Material Concepts of Fourth Primary Class Pupils

2019 ◽  
pp. 375-396
Author(s):  
Manal Taha Yaseen Al-Taʼie
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Partial Control ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Social Content ◽  
Group Design ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Experimental Group

The present study aims the experimental design adopted in the present study is the partial control experimental design of a pre-post control group design. The present study has been limited to the fifth primary class pupils included with in the state primary schools in Baghdad during the academic year (2017-2018), The sample consists of 63 male and female 4th primary class pupils , distributed into 31 ones as an experimental group from Al-Mutanbi Primary school and 32 students as a control group Equalization. The instrument is constructing test measuring concepts acquisition consisted of (8) concepts which consists of (24) items. Experimental group pupils, who have been exposed to Strategy Analog Thinking, have been superior to those at the control group in social content material acquisition.

scholarly journals Teachers as researchers: A discovery of their emerging role and impact through a school-university collaborative research

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Chow ◽  
Samuel Kai Wah Chu ◽  
Nicole Tavares ◽  
Celina Wing Yi Lee
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Teacher Professionalism ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Culture Teaching ◽  
The Impact

This study explored the impact of the role of teacher-researchers on in-service teachers’ professional development, as well as the reasons behind the lack of a teacher-as-researcher ethos in schools. In the study, teachers from four Hong Kong primary schools participated in a school-university collaborative research project that promotes collaborative inquiry project-based learning (IPjBL), in which they took the dual role of the teacher and researcher. Five focus group interviews were conducted with the teachers to collect in-depth qualitative data on their experiences. The impact of this experience on teacher professionalism was examined from four dimensions: knowledge enrichment, school culture, teaching practice and curriculum design. The study provides evidence for the benefits of teacher research and sheds light on how university-school collaboration could contribute to engaging teachers in action research in their everyday classroom.

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