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Exploring the Relationship Between Handwriting Legibility and Praxis in Third and Fourth Grade Students
Get PDFBackground. Research suggests praxis and sensory integration contributes to handwriting legibility in primary students. However, little research has demonstrated performance-based measures of praxis and its relationship to handwriting legibility. This study examined performance-based praxis skills of third and fourth grade students with and without handwriting difficulties (HD).
Method: Handwriting legibility and praxis were examined in 33 third and fourth grade students at a local primary school using the Handwriting Legibility Scale and five praxis tests from the Evaluation in Ayres Sensory Integration. Participants were categorized into two groups based on their handwriting legibility scores: students with HD (n = 6) and students without HD (n = 27). Mann-Whitney U and effect size r was calculated to compare the two groups.
Results: Students with HD had significantly lower scores on three areas of praxis (positions, sequences, and ocular praxis); pAreas without significant differences include ideation and following directions.
Conclusion: Overall, preliminary data support a relationship between praxis and handwriting legibility, which supports the need to evaluate praxis skills to inform occupational therapy interventions for students with handwriting difficulties
A Vision to Improve Policies for Grandfamilies
Get PDFIn 2007, my mentor, Anne Strozier, and I wrote an article about the various systems of care that were in place to help support grandparents and other relatives raising children in the US (Strozier & Krisman, 2007). We noted how difficult it was to completely understand the data related to the needs of grandfamilies, because they existed in so many siloed systems of care, including child welfare, aging, education, legal, health care, and others. Today is 17 years since that article was published and systems serving kinship families are just as segmented and siloed as ever.
In the 10 years since the first issue, the Grandfamilies journal has applied an ecological systems approach to grandfamilies support systems to widen the policy scope, and improve service delivery of needed resources to kinship families. This brief will identify existing supportive policies currently in place and present an overarching vision to elevate this support through innovation and inclusiveness
What Lies Ahead? Future Directions for Grandparent Caregiving Research
Get PDFClearly, as a perusal of the literature will support, interest in the lives of grandparents raising grandchildren among practitioners and researchers has increased dramatically over the last decade. As we approach 50 years since the appearance of Meredith Minkler and her colleagues’ classic work on grandparent caregivers raising their grandchildren amid the crack cocaine epidemic, I take this opportunity at the 10th anniversary of GrandFamilies to reflect on what directions grandfamily research might take in the future
Historical Underpinnings of Peer Support within U.S. Behavioral Health
No full textPeer support is an evidence-based intervention in behavioral health. It advances social work values and ethics, the human rights principle of participation, and has the potential to validate experiences of oppression and injustice. Despite significant recent attention in behavioral health practice and research, peer support is more nascent in other areas of practice. This research note explores the evolution of peer support in the field of behavioral health in the United States. It is offered to aid and encourage peer support integration in more nascent settings (e.g., youth homelessness)
Communicatively Enhancing Belonging by Meeting the Motivations of First-Generation College Students in the Classroom
No full textFirst-generation college students’ (FGCS) experiences can be accompanied by lower senses of belonging when compared to continuing-generation college students (CGCS). This article explores some instructional communication best practices for supporting belongingness by meeting the motivations of FGCS with phrasings, framings, and designs of course content that might cultivate resonance with that which drives students. Specifically, strategies are discussed for meeting the motivations of FGCS as they might be shaped by imposter syndrome, negative affect, and orientations toward upward mobility
Climate Change Denial Messages as Post-Truth
No full textPost-truth messages are hegemonic forms of communication intentionally designed to create false narratives that perpetuate power and marginalize others. These messages make differentiating fact from fiction difficult. Students are especially susceptible to believing and internalizing post-truth messages due to their high level of interaction with social media and the neoliberal period in which they have been raised. One type of post-truth message that has become especially prevalent is climate change denial messages that advance a neoliberal agenda. This article will apply tenets of critical communication pedagogy (CCP) as a means by which to recognize messages that deny climate change as examples of post-truth
Addressing Black “Student Outsiders” at AANAPISI/HSIs: Toward (Radical) Transgressive Teaching for Black College Students in Higher Education
No full textBlack students attending AANAPISI/HSI universities have long been overlooked in communication and interdisciplinary research. In this essay, I draw on bell hooks’s (2014) radical transgressive teaching and Patricia Hill Collins’s “outsider within” framework to examine the experiences of Black students at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) such as AANAPISIs and HSIs. Using my autoethnographic and autobiographical experiences as a Black student who graduated from two AANAPISI/HSIs, alongside recent literature on Black student experiences in these contexts, I explore how communication instructors at MSIs can improve engagement with Black students by establishing racially affirming curricula, instructional practices, and instructor-student rapport. I argue that radical transgressive teaching is essential to bringing Black student outsiders into liberatory learning spaces. I propose three interrelated instruction approaches: (1) a communicative-andragogical approach, (2) a liberatory andragogical approach, and (3) transgressive liberatory communication andragogy. Together, these approaches offer a starting point for reimagining communication instruction for Black students at MSIs like AANAPISIs/HSIs—and at PWIs
The Unification of Activity and Disengagement Theories
No full textThe intent of this theoretical analysis is to demonstrate that gerontologists have been distorting the central notions found within activity theory and disengagement theory. We show that disengagement and activity are not individual constructs but rather part of a single conceptual framework that follows an evolutionary pattern within the individual’s life course. Individually, activity theory and disengagement theory are static. However, combining their central concepts into a unified whole, the theoretical framework becomes dynamic and more useful to practicing social workers and researchers. The commonalities or bonds between the two theories include: (a) shared concepts; (b) theoretical propositions; (c) intellectual history; (d) causal relationships; (e) preconsciousness; and (f) locus of control. A single theory emerges
Architecture of Union: Exploring Community-Supported Wedding Venues
Get PDFWeddings, as deeply symbolic rituals, often rely heavily on the venue to set the tone and enhance the emotional resonance of the event Yet, the rising cost of wedding venues often excludes couples from lower-to-middle income backgrounds, creating a barrier to access for many. This design project explores the potential of a community-supported greenhouse wedding venue—a model that not only offers affordability through shared community investment but also enhances the symbolic resonance of weddings through its nature-integrated architecture. The design investigates how intentional spatial planning within a greenhouse structure can serve both the practical needs of wedding ceremonies and the deeper symbolic meanings of growth and unity.
Through a multidisciplinary approach, the project examines wedding economies in the United States and across the world, popular wedding venues, the role of food at weddings, and the cultural nuances of weddings with a study on Atlanta, Georgia. By analyzing unity rituals across cultures and envisioning a venue rooted in inclusivity, the research highlights how architecture can re-imagine traditional rituals to be more equitable, community-driven, and culturally expansive
Interview with Anajne Greymountain
Get PDFInterview with Anajne Greymountain as part of the Empowering Indigenous Futures Project. During the interview, the following topics are discussed. Art and metalsmithing; Disparities between states in public school education; Lack of support and community for native students in public schools; Cultural erasure.
Additional files include full transcription.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/indigenous-futures/1002/thumbnail.jp