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Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Individuals Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication: A Pilot Study on Supported Planning Using a Toolkit

Description: Article describes how when emergencies or disasters arise, individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication are particularly vulnerable. This study highlights the need for preparedness activities that are person-centered and account for the communication support needs of individuals who use AAC if faced with an emergency/disaster.
Date: January 3, 2024
Creator: Barton-Hulsey, Andrea; Boesch, Miriam C.; Chung, Yoosun; Caswell, Tina; Sonntag, Amy M. & Quach, Wendy

Enhancing student-centered learning in Biomechanics (KINE3050) using new and emerging technological educational tools

Description: Poster presented as part of the 2012 University Forum on Teaching & Learning at UNT. This poster describes a a project for a course using new and emerging technological educational tools. This project redesigned KINE-3050 (Biomechanics) as a blended course with the aim to enhance student-centered learning.
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Vingren, Jakob L.
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The Epitome of Counseling Ethics

Description: This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. In this paper, the author discusses ethics in counseling, including the admiral qualities of courage that counselors must have to live by personal and professional ethical convictions.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Schroeder, Julianne
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Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation Review

Description: This article is a systematic review describing a set of practices that have evidence of positive effects with autistic children and youth. It is the third iteration of a review of the intervention literature (Odom et al. in J Autism Dev Disorders 40(4):425–436, 2010a; Prevent School Fail 54(4):275–282, 2010b; Wong et al. in https://autismpdc.fpg.unc.edu/sites/autismpdc.fpg.unc.edu/files/imce/documents/2014-EBP-Report.pdf; J Autism Dev Disorders 45(7):1951–1966, 2015), extending coverage to arti… more
Date: January 15, 2021
Creator: Hume, Kara; Steinbrenner, Jessica R.; Odom, Samuel L.; Morin, Kristi L.; Nowell, Sallie W.; Tomaszewski, Brianne et al.
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Examining physical activity and quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability

Description: Article discusses how quality of life and physical activity relate to each other in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. The authors use Fitbit activity trackers to find connections between physical activity and quality of life of their sample group of autistic adults.
Date: September 13, 2021
Creator: Tomaszewski, Brianne; Savage, Melissa N. & Hume, Kara
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Exceptional Friction Mitigation via Subsurface Plastic Shear in Defective Nanocrystalline Ceramics

Description: This article reports that atomic layer deposition {0002}-textured ZnO films, with nanocolumnar grains and defective sub-stoichiometric structure, exhibit nanocrystalline plasticity and exceptionally low sliding friction and wear.
Date: June 13, 2014
Creator: Mohseni, Hamidreza; Mensah, B. A.; Gupta, N.; Srinivasan, S. G. & Scharf, Thomas W.
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Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Validity of Self-Report Dietary Assessment in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis: Comparison with Doubly Labeled Water Measured Total Energy Expenditure

Description: This article includes a cross-sectional study examining the Automated Self-Administered 24-H (ASA24) Dietary Assessment Tool in persons with Multiple Sclerosis. This study establishes the feasibility and acceptability of ASA24 in persons with MS and provides a foundation regarding the need for further validation research examining appropriate outcomes for supporting dietary interventions
Date: April 5, 2021
Creator: Silveira, Stephanie L.; Jeng, Brenda; Gower, Barbara A. & Motl, Robert W.
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Feasibility and initial efficacy of a wheelchair exercise-training intervention for persons with multiple sclerosis

Description: Data management plan for the grant "Feasibility and initial efficacy of a wheelchair exercise-training intervention for persons with multiple sclerosis." The proposed study will examine the feasibility and initial efficacy of a stakeholder-informed, home-based, remotely supported and supervised exercise training program for wheelchair users with multiple sclerosis (MS). The proposed exercise training program was iteratively developed in partnership with community members using semi-structured i… more
Date: 2023-04-01/2025-03-31
Creator: Silveira, Stephanie L.
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Geometry, groceries, and gardens: Learning mathematics and social justice through a nested, equity-directed instructional approach

Description: Authors of the article addressed the call for explorations of how BIPOC students’ “experiences in secondary mathematics classrooms might advance transformative, equity-focused, pedagogical models” by exploring how a nested, equity-directed approach created different kinds of opportunities for students to take up, shift, or resist what it means to teach, learn, and do mathematics. Specifically, authors looked at efforts to engage equity-directed dominant and critical approaches through a series … more
Date: June 10, 2023
Creator: Harper, Frances K. & Kudaisi, Queshonda J.
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High School Adolescents’ Physical Activity and Physical Fitness: A 3 × 2 Achievement Goal Approach

Description: Article examining the influence of six goal orientations on physical activity (PA) and physical fitness (PF) in high school students in China using the latest 3 × 2 achievement goal model. Results show fostering self- and other-approach-oriented environments with developmentally appropriate content in physical education may have implications for enhancing high school students’ PA and PF.
Date: July 27, 2020
Creator: Shen, Liang; Lee, Joonyoung; Chen, Changzhou & Zhang, Tao
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