Using Films to Teach Social Welfare Policy

The effect of fiscal policy on social welfare due to government spending shocks, monetary and productivity

The most important issue for policymakers in optimal policy-making is to choose the tools that bring the equilibrium output to the desired level, with the least volatile income fluctuation. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of favorable fiscal policies on social welfare and business cycle management for the Iranian economy with respect to government spending shocks, m...

Redefining Welfare: Australian Social Policy and Practice

The present paper outlines and analyzes Australia’s welfare reform policies as they have been implemented over the past decade. While there have been numerous social policy initiatives over this period, welfare reform provides an interesting site for analysis and review. This suite of policies and programs is of particular importance from several standpoints. First, its target groups – those ne...

Organizational Responses to Social Policy: The Case of Welfare Reform

Work in progress - Using social media to teach engineering process

Due to the outsourcing of many low level computing jobs, many students have a perception that there are very few computer science related jobs in the United States. Consequently, the number of students majoring in computer science has been decreasing. This project attempts to use social media as a means of attracting more students to study computer science and software engineering by exposing 1...

Using Video Self-Modelled Social Stories to Teach Social Skills to a Young Child with Autism

The present study investigated the effectiveness of combining Social Stories and Video Self-Modelling (VSM) to teach social skills to a three-year-old child with autism. A multiple-baseline across behaviors design revealed that video self-modelled Social Stories were effective at improving all three target behaviors: greeting, inviting to play, and contingent responding. In addition, these beha...