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The story of Estes Park /
No full text"In this edition, the Guide Book is omitted and the original Story of Estes Park, with but few changes in the former text, brought down to date." -- Preface.First published 1905 under title: The story of Estes Park and a guide book.Mode of access: Internet
AUT817303_Lay_Abstract – Supplemental material for A novel method for measuring learning opportunities provided by parents to young children with autism spectrum disorder
No full textSupplemental material, AUT817303_Lay_Abstract for A novel method for measuring learning opportunities provided by parents to young children with autism spectrum disorder by Katherine S Davlantis, Annette Estes, Geraldine Dawson and Sally J Rogers in Autism</p
Cary-Estes genealogy;
No full text"Reference books and magazines": p. [204]-206.Mode of access: Internet
Vocalization Behavior During the Autism Observation Scale for Infants in Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
No full textThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2013Due to the high heritability rate of autism, recent investigative efforts have focused on prospectively studying infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in order to map the developmental trajectory and potentially lower the age at which children may be diagnosed. Additionally, children with ASD typically exhibit language delays, therefore the purpose of this study was to evaluate pre-speech vocal productions of 6-month old infant siblings at high-risk (HR) and low-risk (LR) for ASD. Video recordings collected during standardized testing were analyzed and coded for babbling, consonant inventories, and atypical vocalizations. These data were then evaluated to determine if vocal behavior at 6 months was predictive of an autism diagnosis at 24 months. At 6 months, HR infants produced a higher percentage of canonical syllables than their LR peers. No other significant differences were found, and vocal behaviors at 6 months were not associated with higher scores on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) at 24 months. Therefore, the results of this study provide evidence that there are few meaningful differences in vocal behavior between HR and LR infants at 6 months
Peer Relationships in School-Age Children with Autism: Concurrent and Longitudinal Predictors
No full textThesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08This study investigated contributors to peer competence and friendship quality in 26 children with autism (age M=11.7 years, SD=.72; 20 boys, 6 girls) and 25 children with typical development (TD; age M=10.2 years, SD=1.5; 18 boys, 7 girls). Peer competence was indicated by a child’s ability to use prosocial behaviors to interact with peers. Friendship quality was indicated by a child’s interactions with one specific “focus” friend. Both outcomes were assessed via parent report. Prior to this dissertation, parents and children with autism at age 4 years completed a play task that captured mutual responsiveness behaviors, defined as two-part interactions in which a participant engaged his or her partner, and the partner responded positively. The play task was coded with two coding systems: the Relationship Affect Coding System (RACS) and Coder Impressions (Co-Imps). For the purposes of this dissertation, three subdomains of mutual responsiveness were created using the RACS and Co-Imps: Micro Responsiveness, Shared Control, and Global Impressions. Results revealed that group (autism or TD) and language together concurrently predicted peer competence and friendship quality. Furthermore, group uniquely contributed to peer competence, and language uniquely contributed to friendship quality. Together, the three subdomains of mutual responsiveness between parents and children with autism at age 4 years did not longitudinally predict peer competence or friendship quality at age 10 years. A trend toward significance was detected between Shared Control, i.e. children’s attempts to influence parents’ behavior, and peer competence, but a follow-up analysis did not reach significance. Children who had more control in the play interaction at age 4 years had higher peer competence at age 10 years. Furthermore, two subdomains of mutual responsiveness, Global Impressions and Shared Control, were correlated with language abilities at age 4 years. Specifically, children who were in more globally responsive dyads and who had more control during play with their parents had better language abilities. This is the first study to describe unique contributions of group and language to peer competence and friendship quality. In addition, language appeared to play an important role to social outcomes for children with autism, as demonstrated by linkages between language and mutual responsiveness at age 4 years and language and friendship quality at age 10 years
The unexplained nature of reading.
No full textThe effects of properties of words on their reading aloud response times (RTs) are 1 major source of evidence about the reading process. The precision with which such RTs could potentially be predicted by word properties is critical to evaluate our understanding of reading but is often underestimated due to contamination from individual differences. We estimated this precision without such contamination individually for 4 people who each read 2,820 words 50 times each. These estimates were compared to the precision achieved by a 31-variable regression model that outperforms current cognitive models on variance-explained criteria. Most (around 2/3) of the meaningful (non-first-phoneme, non-noise) word-level variance remained unexplained by this model. Considerable empirical and theoretical-computational effort has been expended on this area of psychology, but the high level of systematic variance remaining unexplained suggests doubts regarding contemporary accounts of the details of the mechanisms of reading at the level of the word. Future assessment of models can take advantage of the availability of our precise participant-level database
Intellectual Ability as a Predictor of CAM Usage in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
No full textvii, 79 p.Dietary treatments (e.g., gluten-free and/or casein-free diets, yeast-free diets) are one of
the most popular forms of complementary and alternative medical (CAM) treatments
used among children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). At present, professionals
are increasingly interested in understanding the reasons why families choose to use CAM
treatments for a child on the autism spectrum. This study examined whether the
intellectual ability (IQ) of children with ASD influenced parental choice to begin and
maintain a dietary modification treatment. The data used in this study ·were taken from
an ongoing longitudinal study at the University of Washington. Fifty-six children with
ASD (44 males and 12 females) participated in this study and were separated into 2
groups (diet versus non-diet) based on the reported use of dietary treatments. The age of
onset, age of termination, and overall duration were calculated for each child in the diet
group. Results showed that children in the diet group had significantly lower composite
IQ scores than children in the non-diet group. These between-group differences were the
result of significant differences in verbal ability. Indeed, children who started a dietary
treatment demonstrated significantly lower verbal IQ scores than children who did not
start a similar treatment. The relationship between composite IQ and duration of
treatment was also examined to determine whether IQ influenced how long parents were
willing to maintain a CAM treatment. No significant relationship was found, however,
between these variables. Overall, the findings from this study suggest that intellectual
ability is one factor that influenced parental choice of CAM among children with ASD.
It is likely that additional factors contribute to the maintenance of a CAM treatment.Autism Center. University of Washington. Seattle, Washington
Ep. #033 - Standing Rock (feat. Jaskiran Dhillon & Nick Estes)
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Until a few weeks ago, most of us hadn’t heard about the lawsuit and protest of the Standing Rock Sioux against the Dakota Access Pipeline project. Now the resistance is the subject of national and international media coverage. Still, there is much we do not understand about the history and stakes of what is happening at Standing Rock in terms of Indigenous rights and sovereignty, climate justice, and the struggle for energy transition. By way of comparison, Cymene and Dominic briefly discuss Indigenous resistance to energy projects in their fieldwork in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Then (11:08) we welcome to the podcast Jaskiran Dhillon and Nick Estes. Jaskiran is a first generation academic and advocate who grew up on Treaty Six Cree/Métis Territory in Saskatchewan. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology at The New School and author of the forthcoming Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (U Toronto, 2017). Nick Estes is Kul Wicasa from the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico, an Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellow, and a co-founder of activist organization The Red Nation. A winner of a Native American Journalist Association award for his writing, Nick’s research focuses on the history and politics of the Oceti Sakowin (The Great Sioux Nation), border town violence, colonialism and decolonization, and Indigenous internationalism and human rights. Together we discuss what led to opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, the legacies of settler colonialism and empire in the region, and the impact Indigenous youth are having on the climate justice movement. Jaskiran and Nick explain to us why what is happening at Standing Rock is truly unprecedented and why it might give us hope despite how deeply pipeline politics remain invested in traditions of settler violence. Finally, we discuss what they think will happen next and how people wishing to support the resistance can help; for those with the resources to help, donations to the legal defense fund and to support the community can be made at standingrock.org PS special thanks to Audra Simpson for helping to make this episode possible
The Year We Had No President
No full textForeword by Senator Estes Kefauver. Book discusses the history of presidential inability and succession and the legal gap affecting these issues. Author Richard Hansen belonged to the American Bar Association Conference on Presidential Inability and Succession. This group helped draft the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_books/1002/thumbnail.jp
America's Switzerland: Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the growth years
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Estes Park in 1915-New Beginnings -- The Growth of "the Village" -- F.O. Stanley and the Development of Estes Park -- Building a Community -- Rocky Mountain National Park: The First Years -- Publicizing Park and Town: The "Eve of Estes" and Winter Sports -- The Transportation Controversy: Rocky Mountain National Park, 1919-1921 -- Rocky Mountain National Park: The Toll Years, 1921-1929 -- Growth and Maturity: Estes Park in the 1920s -- Hard Times Come to Colorado: Estes Park in the 1930s -- The Years After Roger Toll: Rocky Mountain Park, 1929-1941 -- Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park: The War Years ... and After
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