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How Genetic Findings Associated with Autism are Used: A Study of Parents and Caregivers
No full textGuidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recommend genetic testing for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as part of their medical workup. While previous studies explored parental and caregiver experiences in the pursuit of genetic testing for the affected individual, to our knowledge, there is limited research in the usefulness of genetic testing for ASD and other neurodevelopmental disorders in terms of cascade testing, reproductive decision-making, medical management and care. In our research, a survey was submitted to parents and caregivers of N = 645 participants selected from the Simons Searchlight database. Quantitative Analysis of the 337 respondents showed an increased uptake of utility and overall satisfaction after a genetic finding, despite the challenges and concerns surrounding genetic testing and the potential implications that a genetic finding for ASD and other neurodevelopmental conditions may have. Notably, respondents overwhelmingly did not regret getting genetic testing done and found an ASD genetic finding to be helpful
Dance/Movement Therapy in Response to Continuous Race-Based Trauma
Get PDFTrauma is concomitant with a lack of safety; as such, where there is a threat to safety, there is likely to be trauma. Afrodescendants living in the United States, through an ongoing lack of human regard, are often powerless to ensure their safety, and are regularly subjected to continuous, race-based trauma. Racism is deeply embedded in the nation’s institutions as well as in every relationship, and this deeply pervasive and penetrating ideology influences strongly how individuals of any race interact with others. Race-based aggression, from micro- to macro-, has a profound and continuously traumatizing effect on Afrodescendants, with similarly profound effect on how they move through the world. Trauma-informed dance/movement therapy can provide a framework for a corrective relational experience, in which safety can be created and experienced and in which co-regulation, empathy, and recognition abound. While there is no post-traumatic environment within which Afrodescendants can effect the healing process, dance/movement therapy offers opportunities to manage overwhelming levels of stress while providing access to the positive regard, support and esteem often denied in daily life in America
The Emergence of Lesbianism From Women\u27s Penal Institutions: Incarcerated Women-Loving Women, Interracial Coupling, and Women\u27s Blues Music, 1895-1935
Get PDFThis thesis explores the early-twentieth-century emergence of lesbianism as an identity label, an understanding of relationships between women-loving women, and a set of subcultures in the United States. Penal and medical professionals’ influence on the development of language surrounding and contributing to social and scientific meanings of lesbianism is analyzed as a response to the hypervisibility of women-loving women confined in women’s penal institutions. In this context, relationships between incarcerated white women and Black women received the most attention and condemnation from observers, such as reformatory administrators and research psychologists. A focus on interracial relationships between incarcerated women, especially on the voices of Black women in these relationships, facilitates a reimagination the evolution of U.S. lesbianism. In this endeavor, the thesis relies heavily on secretly written correspondence between incarcerated women-loving women and on the lyrics of blues songs written, performed, and recorded by Black women who gave birth to blues culture. Moving beyond historical narratives of lesbianism which focus on white middle-class women, the thesis explores the emergence of lesbianism through connections between incarcerated, working-class, and Black women’s spaces wherein women-loving women cultivated diverse identities and subcultures
The Power of Play in Education
Get PDFAt its current state, the educational system in America seems doomed with its single-minded, single-method approach to education. Educational systems in many parts of the world are formally instructed with a huge emphasis on teaching to the tests. Despite an understanding of the importance of exploration in the classroom, play is not seen as learning. When teachers aim to include play in their classroom, often children are not playing at all. In relationship to that debate, I argue that play is the essence of any classroom.
The research I have completed has provided me with articles and field experience that supports the necessity for a play-based education and ways in which to foster and advocate for play within the classroom. Play enables us, as educators, to see each child as unique, different, and interesting in their own way. Through supporting children\u27s interests, questions, and ideas, curriculum can be planned. Through providing children with open-ended materials, an environment, and documentation of work, we raise questions and focus closely on their ideas and interests. By allowing children to explore and play, we enable them to communicate in the purest form. This thesis will aim to discuss ways in which play should be seen as essential to every classroom
Nothing But Hype: Sex Trafficking And The Super Bowl
Get PDFAmericans love sports and part of that love for sports is seen in its biggest sporting event of the year, the Super Bowl. Media, Journalists, Christian Groups, and some Governmental Agencies use this sporting event to hype up the idea that sex trafficking is rampant in cities where the Super Bowl is held or around the time this sport is held. This creates a problem for the nonprofit groups and other think tanks trying to end the illicit trend of sex trafficking. This not only affects women but men and children all over the world including the US. This thesis argues that the stories and statistics provided to create such hype are incorrect or exaggerated. Sex trafficking does not increase during the Super Bowl
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No full textA young Nigerian woman get into an entanglement with a “church” while in the United States. This church swallows her whole. She is only able to escape after starting a creative writing program that relocates her. She then finds some weird atheist dude
Teaching Through Movement
Get PDFWithin the United States, many children struggle in the public school system to meet the demands required of them. Often the underlying issue stems from a lack of focus around the social and emotional needs of the children. The demand of this issue requires work on multiple levels: the individual, collective, and institutional, and can be met through better understanding and application of nonverbal communication. Dance/movement therapy is an approach that can be applied to address these issues in such a manner. Through the application of dance/movement therapy for students and teachers alike, improvement can be made to further promote achievement and the overall wellbeing of the students as well as the classroom environment