KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN THE REGULAR CLASSROOM IN WUHAN, CHINA

After the international trends towards inclusive education, Chinese legislations mandate the inclusion of students with disabilities into the regular education classroom. The purpose of this study was to investigate the kindergarten teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education of children with disabilities in the regular classroom, in Wuhan, China, as well their sense of responsibility to include children with disabilities in regular classroom. Ninety kindergarten teachers from public and private kindergartens in Wuhan participated in this study. Descriptive analysis demonstrated that, in general, kindergarten teachers we studied have negative or contradictory attitudes towards inclusive education of children with disabilities in regular classroom. Statistically non-significant differences were found between teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion and teachers’ demographic variables (age, education degree, teaching experience, experience teaching children with disabilities, time experience with children with disabilities and training in special education). Significant correlation was found between teachers’ attitudes towards inclusive education and their sense of responsibility to include children with disabilities in regular classroom. The results allowed the identification of some crucial aspects necessary to achieve the inclusive education

Audit report on the AIM - Jefferson, Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area Board, d/b/a Jefferson/Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2011

Audit report on the AIM - Jefferson, Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area Board, d/b/a Jefferson/Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2011

Audit report on the AIM - Jefferson, Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area Board, d/b/a Jefferson/Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the AIM - Jefferson, Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area Board, d/b/a Jefferson/Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2012

Ringgold County Early Childhood Iowa Area independent auditor's reports, basic financial statements, schedule of findings, June 30, 2012

Audit report on the Ringgold County Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the Taylor County Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the Taylor County Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the AIM - Jefferson, Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa (ECI) Area Board, d/b/a Jefferson/Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the AIM - Jefferson, Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa (ECI) Area Board, d/b/a Jefferson/Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the Ringgold County Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the Ringgold County Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the Taylor County Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the Taylor County Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2013

Audit report on the Iowa/Jefferson/Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2014

Audit report on the Iowa/Jefferson/Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2014

Telomere fluorescence measurements in granulocytes and T lymphocyte subsets point to a high turnover of hematopoietic stem cells and memory T cells in early childhood.

To study telomere length dynamics in hematopoietic cells with age, we analyzed the average length of telomere repeat sequences in diverse populations of nucleated blood cells. More than 500 individuals ranging in age from 0 to 90 yr, including 36 pairs of monozygous and dizygotic twins, were analyzed using quantitative fluorescence in situ hybridization and flow cytometry. Granulocytes and naive T cells showed a parallel biphasic decline in telomere length with age that most likely reflected accumulated cell divisions in the common precursors of both cell types: hematopoietic stem cells. Telomere loss was very rapid in the first year, and continued for more than eight decades at a 30-fold lower rate. Memory T cells also showed an initial rapid decline in telomere length with age. However, in contrast to naive T cells, this decline continued for several years, and in older individuals lymphocytes typically had shorter telomeres than did granulocytes. Our findings point to a dramatic decline in stem cell turnover in early childhood and support the notion that cell divisions in hematopoietic stem cells and T cells result in loss of telomeric DNA.

Resources for career education, 1977.

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Evaluación de la psicopatología del preescolar mediante el Early Childhood Inventory-4 (ECI-4): concordancia entre padres y maestros.= Assessment of psychopathology in preschool age children through the Early Childhood Inventory-4 (ECI-4): Agreement among parents and teachers

El objetivo principal de este estudio es conocer la concordancia entre informantes, padres y maestros,en cada una de las dimensiones o categorías diagnósticas del Early Childhood Inventory-4 (ECI-4).Además, se pretende analizar la influencia de la presencia de problemas de salud en los padres en ladescripción y valoración de la conducta de una muestra de 204 alumnos de preescolar (3 a 6 años) deperfiles socioeconómicos diferentes. Los resultados indican que los padres tienden a valorar con mayorseveridad los síntomas, observándose una mayor concordancia entre informantes en los relativos alos trastornos del desarrollo

Audit report on the Iowa/Jefferson/Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2015

Audit report on the Iowa/Jefferson/Keokuk Early Childhood Iowa Area for the year ended June 30, 2015

Genetic origin of the relationship between parental negativity and behavior problems from early childhood to adolescence: A longitudinal genetically sensitive study.

Little is known about how genetic and environmental factors contribute to the association between parental negativity and behavior problems from early childhood to adolescence. The current study fitted a cross-lagged model in a sample consisting of 4,075 twin pairs to explore (a) the role of genetic and environmental factors in the relationship between parental negativity and behavior problems from age 4 to age 12, (b) whether parent-driven and child-driven processes independently explain the association, and (c) whether there are sex differences in this relationship. Both phenotypes showed substantial genetic influence at both ages. The concurrent overlap between them was mainly accounted for by genetic factors. Causal pathways representing stability of the phenotypes and parent-driven and child-driven effects significantly and independently account for the association. Significant but slight differences were found between males and females for parent-driven effects. These results were highly similar when general cognitive ability was added as a covariate. In summary, the longitudinal association between parental negativity and behavior problems seems to be bidirectional and mainly accounted for by genetic factors. Furthermore, child-driven effects were mainly genetically mediated, and parent-driven effects were a function of both genetic and shared-environmental factors.