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D E Yoder

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PubMed1998

The Ability Program: improving statewide access to assistive technology for adults with disabilities.

In 1995, the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust awarded $2.4 million to support the Ability Program, a statewide initiative to improve awareness of and access to assistive technology for adult North Carolinians with disabilities. This coordinated effort resulted in 11 funded projects, each using a different approach to deliver assistive technology to persons in rural communities. An overall management, technical assistance, and evaluation program ensured coordinated use of the Trust's funds. This paper describes the development and implementation of the Ability Program in North Carolina, accomplishments of program grantees, and results of a comprehensive program evaluation system used to document process and outcome measures. After 2 years of operation, the type and extent of assistive technology services for adults with disabilities in North Carolina increased as a result of the Ability Program.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1990

Preparing professionals to serve infants and toddlers with handicaps and their families: an integrative analysis across eight disciplines.

This article summarizes the status of, and recommendations for, preparation programs for early intervention personnel across eight disciplines. Surveys were conducted to determine the extent to which entry-level students in each discipline receive academic preparation and clinical experiences to provide services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. Although considerable variability was found across disciplines, the average student receives little specialized information--practical knowledge--relative either to the infancy period or to working with families. Alternative strategies for improving infant personnel preparation are discussed and policy implications of each are addressed.

Allied Health Occupations↗
PubMed1983

Gaze behavior: a new look at an old problem.

This article reviews the research and clinical literature that has investigated the topography and functions of eye-to-face gaze in normal children and adults. These data and data from a recent pilot study are then compared to the criteria typically used in eye-contact training programs with autistic children. This comparison reveals some educationally relevant discrepancies between the normative data and the training criteria. The need to base educational interventions for autistic individuals on normative standards is discussed, and suggestions for future research are provided.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1981

Some perspectives on intervention strategies for persons with developmental disorders.

We present a view of language that crosses modal considerations (e.g., speech vs. augmentative systems) and places language within an interaction framework. We emphasize the need to consider normal social, cognitive, and linguistic development in selecting program guidelines for developmentally delayed persons. We address the child's linguistic code not as a set of phonetic, syntactic, and semantic features that can be trained in isolation, but as a means by which he can exercise the various pragmatic uses of communication. In effect, our interest has thus expanded from the child alone to the child as one member of a communicating dyad. Programming in the areas of mother's verbal input, expanding children's language skills, training in augmentative systems--all reflect an overriding objective of optimizing the language-user's ability to successfully participate in interactions with other persons in his/her environment.

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PubMed1967

Case selection.

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PubMed1965

Lactic acid.

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Chemical Phenomena↗