Lindsay, Geoff Strand, Steve
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Frontiers in Education
Language impairment (LI) is one of the most common types of special educational needs (SENs), not only as a child’s primary need but also as a secondary domain associated with other types of SENs. LI is a risk factor for children’s later development, being associated with enhanced behavioral, emotional, and social difficulties, in particular peer p...
Lindsay, Geoff
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Frontiers in Education
So, Wing-Chee Wong, Miranda Kit-Yi Lam, Ka-Yee
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Frontiers in Education
This study examined whether social and communicative skills would predict the ability to imitate conventional-interactive gestures (e.g., HAND WAVING for saying goodbye) in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Twenty 6- to 11-year-old Chinese-speaking children with ASD were participated. Their social and communicative skills were assessed...
Castro, Susana Palikara, Olympia
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Frontiers in Education
With the introduction of the Children and Families Act 2014, changes in the process of assessment and identification of children in need of special support in England and Wales have been introduced. These changes are regarded as the most significant in two decades, with consequent implications for service provision. In this paper, we suggest that t...
Norwich, Brahm
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Frontiers in Education
This conceptual paper examines the issues in the use of term “special educational needs” in England over the last 40 years and from this identifies what kind of additional needs’ principles are required for educational services. The paper then examines to what extent the child and youth version of the International Classification of Functioning, Di...
Barbosa, Estela Capelas Quoniam, Luc Maccari, Emerson Nogueira Ferraz, Renato Ribeiro
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Frontiers in Education
In the past few decades, the interaction between science and society has changed its nature. With this change, the reputation of academic institutions became important in all countries around the globe. In Brazil, the Coordination of Betterment of People in Higher Education (CAPES) is the governmental organ responsible for the process of evaluation...
Stenlund, Tova Jonsson, Bert
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Frontiers in Education
The personality trait Need for Cognition (NFC) has been studied for many years and found to be important for individuals’ educational achievement. The original NFC-scale was developed in the eighties, and during the following decade the scale was translated and adapted into a number of other languages. A renewed interest for the personality trait o...
Jönsson, Anders Rosenlund, David Alvén, Fredrik
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Frontiers in Education
The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity of using multiple-choice (MC) items as a complement to constructed-response (CR) items when making decisions about student performance on reasoning tasks. CR items from a national test in physics have been reformulated into MC items and students’ reasoning skills have been analyzed in two sub...
Wikström, Christina Wikström, Magnus
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Frontiers in Education
Student selection in the Swedish admission to higher education system is based on two fundamentally different performance measures: their criterion-referenced upper secondary grade point average (GPA) and their score on a norm-referenced and multiple-choice admissions test [Swedish admissions test (SweSAT)]. Several student characteristics are know...
Heyeres, Marion McCalman, Janya Bainbridge, Roxanne Redman-MacLaren, Michelle
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Frontiers in Education
Background Secondary education for Indigenous children from remote communities requires separation from their communities and families. As these students transition to boarding schools, they face several challenges that are additional to those faced by their non-Indigenous peers. In response, adequate academic and emotional well-being support needs...
