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Noise-Attenuating Headphones and Participation in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
The purpose of this study was to understand the perceived benefits and limitations of using noise-attenuating headphones for children with ASD for participation in home, community, and school environments to determine feasibility of use and guide intervention planning and future research.
Primary Author and Speaker: Beth Pfeiffer</jats:p
The Impact of the Sensory Environment on Participation of Preschool Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
This qualitative study explores the sensory environment to determine the impact on participation in the preschool environment. The study presents information gathered from semistructured interviews of preschool teachers and occupational therapists.
Primary Author and Speaker: Aimee Piller
Contributing Authors: Beth Pfeiffer</jats:p
Supports and Barriers to Effective Job Matching for Persons With Intellectual Disabilities
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
Several practices act as barriers, as supports, or as both to the job-matching process. Future research should focus on integrating these factors into a systematic procedure for matching persons with disabilities to long-term, competitive community employment.
Primary Author and Speaker: Andrew Persch
Additional Authors and Speakers: Beth Pfeiffer, Rebecca Weisshaar, Amy Darragh, Dennis Cleary</jats:p
Exploratory Factor Analysis and Test–Retest Reliability of the Sensory Environment and Participation Questionnaire (SEP)
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
The purpose of this study was to examine internal consistency, factor structure, and test–retest reliability of the Sensory Environment and Participation Questionnaire (SEP–Q) in children with ASD. The SEP–Q measures parents’ perspective of the impact of the sensory environment on participation.
Primary Author and Speaker: Beth Pfeiffer
Additional Authors and Speakers: Wendy Coster, Katherine Bevans
Contributing Authors: Cheenghee Kho</jats:p
Adverse Family Experiences Are Associated With Age of Diagnosis Among Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Date Presented 4/1/2017
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may pose a significant barrier to timely diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder among U.S. children. By identifying ACEs early in a family’s history, occupational therapy practitioners have the opportunity to reduce family stress and support parents in meeting their children’s treatment needs.
Primary Author and Speaker: Kristin Berg
Additional Authors and Speakers: Beth Pfeiffer
Contributing Authors: Cheng-Shi Shiu, Kruti Acharya, Michael Msall, Elizabeth Pfeiffer</jats:p
The Effectiveness of the Size Matters Handwriting Program
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
With school-based occupational therapists reporting up to 75% of their caseload related to handwriting, the urgency to identify a proven and efficient instructional program is paramount. Effective, embeddable, measurable, easy, and fast, the Size Matters Handwriting Program promotes collaboration in the natural environment and the Workload model.
Primary Author and Speaker: Beverly Moskowitz
Additional Authors and Speakers: Beth Carswell, Jennifer Kitzmiller, Moira Bushell, Laura Neikrug, Chaya Gottesman
Contributing Authors: Beth Pfeiffer, Gillian Rai, Tammy Murray</jats:p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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