The presumed role of the parent as an active participant on the planning team for developing a child's Individualized Educational Program (IEP) is unclear. Although legislation provides a basis for parental participation ...

This study examined the effects of certain personality characteristics and experiential factors on the initiation and success of breastfeeding and subsequent satisfaction in mothering. Forty-nine breast-choice and twenty-one ...

This study sought to understand the problem of the low completion rate of living wills and health care proxies among the elderly Chinese Americans living in metropolitan communities. Grounded in the framework of acculturation ...

This is a descriptive study whose purpose is to identify the factors associated with hostility and a tendency towards punitiveness in a group of mothers of retarded children.;The two major hypotheses of the study are: that ...

This explanatory study is retrospective in design and examined 23 independent variables relevant to why some special needs adoptions succeed (remain intact) and why others fail (disrupt). Three groups of children known to ...

This study was designed to examine the factors associated with graduation and non-graduation rates of high school among Puerto Rican/Hispanic youth in New York City. Subjects included: 56 graduates, 58 high school equivalency ...

While cultural competence is important for all clients, it is particularly relevant to the field of child welfare as disproportionality and disparities have been a long-standing problem. Efforts to remediate these have ...

The quality and cost-effectiveness of nursing home care and services are fundamental concerns for the elderly and their families, even as they have come to define major policy debates at the state and federal levels. ...

This study investigated five hypotheses in order to examine the relationship among several variables related to comprehension of cloze passages by 7th-grade students. It examined the effects and interaction effects of the ...