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Balance Balance is evaluated on 7 items. Again, points are administered for independence and strength of performance of individual actions, such as sitting or standing. Maximum score for this section is 14. The Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living The Barthel scale (reference) is a ten item index assessing patients Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and morbidity, including: absence or presence or faecal and/or urinary incontinence, as well needing help with grooming, toilet use,…

America's standard of public education has fallen into a deep decline over the last decade. School should be better constructed to teach kids how to prepare for adult life and the real world. Many of the things taught today in school have little to no value to students after they graduate. Curriculum should involve very crucial life skills such as people skills, critical thinking, and financial management. Our Education System barely does anything to cater to those needs, which sets kids up for…

Hi Professor, For my son, Least Restrictive Environment means normal classrooms, teachers that have been briefed on his exceptions, a formal 504 plan to add special accommodations from the teachers and staff to address his needs, and special allowances for taking notes, tests, and reading activities. He also has special places within the classroom that are reserved for him to work to help avoid distractions and promote greater attention and success. He was on medication and being allowed to…

Should Students with Destructive Tendency Attend Mainstream Public School? Mrs. Smith’s job is to educate the youth of this society. Her students arrive at school safely with great potential. It is a wonderful day and the students are busy working on their assignments. Suddenly, a pencil box is thrown across the room. Josh has had another episode in which he is upset. He flips over desks. Chairs and books are propelled through the room. Papers are flying everywhere. Anything within his reach…

Science literacy, to a great extent, can be seen as a set of discourse (Pearson, Moje, & Greenleaf, 2010; Willington & Osborne, 2001, p. 1), the discipline-specific “language-in-use” (Bloome & Clark, 2006) or languaging (Bloome & Beauchemin, 2016) featured with all kinds of semiotic systems (Lemke, 2001). In this chapter, the…

Many of these responses are in direct correlation with the implemented policies and procedures within the educational environment. With each race, there are many stereotypical behaviors which are associated with a person of color, or a different background than that of the educator. These behaviors can be identified by how an individual walks, talks, or even interacts with his fellow students. The question that plagues this writer is simply “can this be achieved?” Eliot Aronson, a prominent…

The study concluded that overall the crime rate dropped 91%, sexual offenses were reduced by 96%, and incidents of vandalism went down 69%. The huge reduction in problem areas led school officials to believe that improvements were solely attributed to the new uniform policy, however, there is a gray area not addressed in their conclusion. Nowhere in the study is there an assessment of why these reductions took place, or what variables influenced these behavioral changes. Another flaw is the…

Compare and contrast the psychodynamic approach to leadership and that of emotional intelligence. Do you connect with one theory more than the other? Why or why not? The psychodynamic approach is based on the “assessment of the personalities of leaders and followers” (Northouse, 2013, p.347). This approach is used to encourage leaders and followers to become aware of their own personalities types and those of the people with them work. According to Northouse (2013) this helps leaders to…

The sociocultural theory that is used in many classrooms around the world today was founded and researched by a Soviet psychologist, Lev Vygotsky. The key concepts of Vygotsky's theory that will be addressed below are: language, socially mediated learning and scaffolding. The key concept of language in Vygotsky's theory is developed upon social interactions, for communication purposes. Language, a shared social symbolic system for human communication (Woolfolk, 2016, p. 96), allows opportunity…

hours, and less standardized tests. But this is actually a Finnish student's reality. American parents, teachers, and students might be skeptical that the Finnish school system is superior, but according to Pearson (an education firm), Finland is one of the best countries in the world for education. By comparison to other developed countries, America ranks 17th out of 40. America's school system needs to be improved, and the Finnish school system may be our answer. First, Finland's school…