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Authentic Assessment For Children With Language Considerations: Early Identification and Connection to Services
Full text linkEarly identification of delay or disability is critical in the early years when children are developing. Yet practices for early identification are often rife with challenges for the families of young children. Part C of the Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities Program of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) was authorized almost 40 years ago, mandating that children with developmental disability or developmental delay be identified and fairly assessed to obtain high quality early intervention services. An overview of the components of Fair Assessment and legal requirements are highlighted in this article. An outline for recommended practices and considerations for culturally and linguistically diverse students is presented
Twice-Exceptional Black girls: A case study in early childhood
Full text linkTwice-exceptional (2e) refers to children who are gifted or talented in one or more areas and also have a disability or learning difference. Despite the increasing awareness of 2e learners in recent years, many still lack recognition and support, particularly those from marginalized communities. Black girls are among the groups that are least likely to receive accurate identification and appropriate services for their 2e needs. This case study aims to shed light on the experiences of a 2E Black girl in early childhood and offer recommendations for school counselors to better support them
Gender Regrets: Banning Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care
Full text linkThis Article analyzes the use of “regret” in the campaigns to ban GAC and abortion. It identifies two overlapping threads. First, both campaigns against medical care point to protection of patients from future regret as a legitimate state interest justifying restrictions on providing medical care. Second, both rely on concerns about regret to redefine the legal meaning of “informed consent” and make it easier for potential future plaintiffs to prevail in civil suits against providers of medical care. In doing so, both treat the emotion of regret as a distinct injury that may give rise to a range of legal rights and liabilities. The Article reveals a strategic conservative legal movement that has used “regret” as a disciplinary tool to promote “traditional family values,” especially those of natalism and “biological” sex difference.
A few words on terminology. First, regret can be a vague concept subject to a variety of definitions. We define it simply as the backward-looking preference that “things should have been otherwise.” Regret can also be understood by contrast to its inverse, “affirmation.” To affirm a decision or event “is to prefer on balance that [the past] should have the features it actually had.” Second, although conservative media, politicians, and lawmakers often refer to individuals who decide to discontinue GAC as “detransitioners,” this Article refers to them as those who decided to desist gender-affirming care.
The Article proceeds in three main parts. Part I explores the role of regret in state laws that restrict or ban access to GAC for minors, and the judicial treatment of those laws. Part II considers state abortion restrictions and bans, and the judicial treatment of those laws. Part III analyzes how the concept of regret is used by conservative thinktanks, politicians, and lawmakers to promote “traditional family values,” especially involving natalism, traditional gender norms, and “biological” sexual difference. This Part also considers two other choices--the choice to have children and the choice to be childless. It contrasts regret narratives in these two contexts with those in the GAC and abortion contexts to reveal the work that regret is doing for anti-GAC and anti-abortion movements
Patient-Practitioner Relationship in the Post-Dobbs American Landscape
Full text linkThe patient-practitioner relationship is among the most sacred and fundamental in health care, particularly in the realm of reproductive care. Laws regulating what practitioners can and cannot discuss in the exam room with patients have made a resurgence in the post-Dobbs era. In the reproductive care context, these restrictive laws impact patients’ access to critical medical services but also the fundamental underpinnings of the patient-practitioner relationship. In a post-Dobbs era, laws restricting abortion are increasingly dangerous to the health of those seeking these services. With no federal protection for access to abortion services and abortion services hinging on individual states, access to abortion is perilous, and the patient-practitioner relationship is widely under siege across the United States. Government intervention in the examination room is not new. However, prohibiting or compelling a practitioner from providing professional, ethical, and legally obligated medical care has become unreasonable and detrimental to the patient’s health. Indeed, a core tenet of medical care echoed by bioethicists is providing care in the patient’s best interest. Furthermore, the political theater, often on display in state legislatures but certainly brought to the fore in Dobbs, compromises the often tenuous trust between practitioners and patients in the healthcare ecosystem. These cascading impacts of Dobbs extend to the healthcare workforce, complicating the future of aspiring practitioners and engendering an exodus of current practitioners away from restrictive states. This paper will discuss these implications on the patient-practitioner relationship in the broader context of trust within the social contract of the practice of medicine
The Show Must Go On: Leading Factors in the Burnout of Stage Managers
Full text linkStage managers are the key to making theatre move onstage and in the audience. To keep the show, we need to take care of our stage managers. Many have voiced concerns about burnout from their time in the stage management industry (McGraw 2024, 12). Burnout can be defined as “a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed” and characterized by three main dimensions: “energy depletion and exhaustion; feelings of cynicism and increased mental distance related to the individual’s job; and reduced professional efficiency in the individual’s workplace” (World Health Organization 2019). In this study, research and survey data was gathered, aiming to identify the prominent factors leading to “burn-out” in the stage management industry
Community Benefits and Alternative Energy Infrastructure Siting
Full text linkThis essay studies the increasing use of community benefits frameworks in the siting of alternative energy infrastructure. It begins with a discussion of the community benefits agreement movement, the types of agreements that fall under the community benefits agreement frame, as well as the use of community benefits agreements at local law, and in different geographic contexts. Next, it introduces the increasing use of community benefits legal tools in the context of wind energy infrastructure siting. The second part of this essay presents an example of an agreement to share community benefits particularly in the context of federal subsidies through the U.S. Department of Energy. Additional various efforts to share community benefits in wind energy infrastructure installation are analyzed based on two additional datasets of community benefits agreements. In particular, the essay addresses features—such as raising public discourse about projects, and creating an auction-like process—and challenges—such as increasing costs that may be passed on to ratepayers from the use of community benefits tools. Finally, the essay considers what other legal steps governments might take to ensure the public and private actors are fairly treated when the government extends subsidies for wind energy infrastructure creation
Relations Among Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Features in Childhood and Adolescence, Resilience, and Borderline Personality Disorder Features in Adulthood
Full text linkAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are two disorders that share a number of overlapping diagnostic features, such as impulsivity and difficulty with emotion regulation ability. Studies suggest that individuals who meet criteria for an ADHD diagnosis in childhood may have an increased vulnerability for experiencing features of BPD in adulthood. Based on this premise, this study aimed to investigate if resilience, a factor found to improve psychological outcomes, impacts the relationship between ADHD features in childhood and BPD features in adulthood. It was hypothesized that individuals who report high levels of resilience would experience less BPD symptomatology than those with less resilience, regardless of level of retrospective ADHD symptom endorsement. An anonymous, on-line survey questionnaire was utilized that measured ADHD features in childhood, BPD features in adulthood, and resilience. There was a significant and positive correlation between ADHD features in childhood and BPD features in adulthood. ADHD features and BPD features were each significantly and negatively correlated with resilience. A moderation analysis showed that resilience was not a significant moderator in the relationship between ADHD features in childhood and BPD features in adulthood. A subsequent mediation analysis found that resilience was a significant mediator in the relationship between ADHD features in childhood and BPD features in adulthood. These findings emphasize the importance of continued research on resilience, as well as the incorporation of resilience into treatments for ADHD in childhood and BPD in adulthood
Supporting Forward: Initial Evaluation of a Multi-tiered Mentorship Program
Full text linkAccording to existing data from the American Psychological Association, the number of professional psychologists with marginalized identities is not commensurate with the increasingly diversifying US population. Furthermore, there is a recorded discrepancy between the percentage of marginalized students who enter undergraduate programs in psychology compared to those who finish license-granting post-secondary education/training. Promisingly, research in other fields has shown a positive correlation between mentorship experiences and student retention within higher education, increased feelings of belonging in students’ field of study, and a decrease in negative mental health symptoms. Research on mentorship programs within the field of psychology and specifically within university settings is limited. This study followed a time-limited semi-formal multi-tiered mentorship program for marginalized students in a New York City based private university’s psychology department. The program aimed to evaluate the impact of mentorship on mental health symptoms and sense of belonging. While the outcomes were not statistically significant in these two domains, the program demonstrates feasibility for future implementation and explores potential areas for ongoing research
Exploration of Insomnia in Advanced Cancer: A retrospective chart review
Full text linkBackground/Significance: Insomnia is a common symptom in the oncology population and can impact other symptoms such as fatigue, pain, and depression. Although there has a been a significant amount of research on insomnia in cancer survivors, little is known about insomnia in people with advanced cancer