The attitude and personality characteristics of 29 stutterers (19 male, 10 female) aged 5282 yr were assessed using five questionnaires. Results indicate that, while the older stutterers score approximately the same as young adult stutterers on scales assessing approach and performance behaviors, the large majority of older stutterers perceive their stuttering as less handicapping than when the...

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is the most distressing and handicapping of all the body image disorders. A cognitive behavioural model of BDD is discussed which incorporates evidence from recent studies and advances in the author's 1996 conceptual model. The model aims to understand the maintenance of symptoms in BDD, to assist in the process of engagement of therapy and to guide the strategies...

Project ACTT. (Activating Children Through Technology) is a handicapped children's early education program (HCEEP) model demonstration, housed in the College of Education at Western Illinois University. Its major goal is to develop, implement, and demonstrate an innovative microcomputer curriculum model using affordable and practical microcomputer hardware and software. The primary target popul...

The systematic evaluation of a curriculum designed to improve the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and clinical judgment of pediatric residents with regard to young handicapped children and their families is described. Residents were assigned to experimental and control groups, and changes were analyzed across several dimensions. The results revealed a number of significant changes due to the impl...

Learning motivation, self-handicapping, executive function, and school achievement are interrelated variables affecting students’ intension of learning in higher education. However, many educators unaware the ability these predictive fail to encourage further Therefore, with aim helping educators, this study was conducted predict intention education based on their achievement, mothers’ We sampl...

The inability to model long-distance dependency has been handicapping SMT for years. Specifically, the context independence assumption makes it hard to capture the dependency between translation rules. In this paper, we introduce a novel recurrent neural network based rule sequence model to incorporate arbitrary long contextual information during estimating probabilities of rule sequences. More...

A survey was carried out of all infants born in Southampton and South-west Hampshire Health District in 1975 to assess the incidence and cause of handicapping conditions at age 2-3 years. Twenty-four infants were identified with major handicap. A prenatal cause was identified in 15 cases, a perinatal cause in 5 cases, and a postnatal cause in 2 cases. No cause was identified in 2 cases. The inc...