Researchers, the Deaf community, teachers of deaf children and speech and language therapists all share a concern about how to improve deaf children’s written language skills. One part of literacy is story writing or narrative. A fi nding from a small number of studies is that children exposed to sign language from early childhood onwards achieve the highest level of bilingualism and become ski...

Background Motherhood is a time of anticipation of joy for a woman, her family, and her community. In spite of this fact, it is not as enjoyable as it should be because of numerous reasons. Insufficiency or lack of birth preparedness and complication readiness is the most common reason. The aim of this study was to assess the practice of birth preparedness and complication readiness and associa...

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine www.pccmjournal.org 587 Objectives: To determine whether the measurement of cerebral and somatic regional oxygen saturation during an extubation readiness trial predicts extubation failure in postoperative cardiac patients. Design: Prospective observational study. Setting: Tertiary care center cardiac ICU. Patients: Pediatric patients 1 day to 21 years old follo...

Most ICT projects failed due to various factors including organizational issues and leaders who did not sufficiently assess organizational readiness for change. Although various perspectives and criteria have been used by researchers to measure organizational readiness, reported evidence on its measurement in information systems (IS) adoption is still limited and unclear, which calls for clarif...

This article examines associations between observed quality in preschool center classrooms for approximately 6,250 three- to five-year-olds and their school readiness skills at kindergarten entry. Secondary analyses were conducted using data from four large-scale studies to estimate the effects of preschool center quality and interactions between quality and demographic characteristics and chil...

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client-centered, directive therapeutic style to enhance readiness for change by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence. An evolution of Rogers's person-centered counseling approach, MI elicits the client's own motivations for change. The rapidly growing evidence base for MI is summarized in a new meta-analysis of 72 clinical trials spanning a range o...

Introduction: Readiness to quit smoking a pattern of attitudes, intentions, and behaviors that reflect a likelihood of engaging in cessation activities—is a useful heuristic for understanding smoking disparities based on sexual orientation. This study examined demographic, tobacco-use patterns, psychosocial and cognitive factors associated with readiness to quit among gay and bisexual male smok...

INTRODUCTION The ongoing threat of a terrorist attack places public agencies under increasing pressure to ensure readiness in the event of a disaster. Yet, little published information exists regarding the current state of readiness, which would allow local and regional organizations to develop disaster preparedness plans that would function seamlessly across service areas. The objective of thi...

BACKGROUND This article reports on the development of a systematic approach to assess for community readiness prior to implementation of a behavioural intervention for childhood obesity. Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR), we developed research tools to evaluate local community centres' organisational readiness and their capacity to implement the intervention. ...

Organizational awareness, readiness, and competitiveness as it relates to green information systems and technology has become all too familiar in recent years. As the world is taking notice of the damage that the earth has endured, more and more organizations have stepped up to address the issue. This article examines the GreenIS/IT literature published between 2000–2010 to provide a review of ...