113 The intervention strategies associated with applied behavior analysis (ABA) repeatedly have been demonstrated as effective techniques for shaping behavior and teaching new skills to children with disabilities. While ABA has been a mainstay of early intervention in special education for decades, occupational therapists typically do not receive training in ABA or the instructional strategies ...

Introduction. Despite the implementation of hospital autonomy in many developed (France, Denmark) and developing countries(Ghana, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Indonesia) since the early 1980s , relatively little research has been directed towards evaluating the experiences of these hospitals .Efficiency, equity, accountability and quality of care can be considered as four main evaluative criteria in ass...

" Are we there yet? " How many parents have heard this phrase time and time again when traveling with young children eager to arrive at a much-anticipated vacation spot, but who are clearly tiring of the travel. The response from the parents is always a reassuring " no, but we are getting very close. " As parents, we then think about how we can use this as a teaching moment to have our children...

An audio and video corpus of speech addressed to 28 11-month-olds is described. The corpus allows comparisons between adult speech directed toward infants, familiar adults, and unfamiliar adult addressees as well as of caregivers' word teaching strategies across word classes. Summary data show that infant-directed speech differed more from speech to unfamiliar than familiar adults, that word te...

What is e-learning? e-learning is now very much part of mainstream health professions' education. Medical students and trainees are very familiar with using computers and other technologies as part of their day-today life, in healthcare management and in education. In this article e-learning refers to electronically mediated learning in a digital format (using computers and the internet) to enh...

Uterus mullerian adenosarcoma is a very rare malignancy. The clinical and Ultra Sonographic findings are not exclusive and the histomorphologic diagnosis of low-grade adenosarcomas is not straightforward. Herein, we present a young Iranian woman with menometrorrhagia due to exceptional occurrence of uterus Mullerian adenosarcoma. A 24-year-old woman, with menometrorrhagia was referred. Imaging...