BACKGROUND Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder, characterized by pervasive impairment in several areas of development, including social interactions and communication skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the development profiles and determine the relationship of social function with motor and speech functions in children with autism. METHODS We collected the medical r...

This study aimed to develop real-life performance-based tasks in Business Mathematics (RLPBTs) following the ADDIE’s model of instructional development. Using descriptive-developmental research design, developed RLPBTS with mathematics experts, department head, bank manager, teachers, and students as respondents. The RLPBTs consist plans. Each plan has these components: Introduction, Learning C...

Employer pensions that integrate benefits with Social Security have been the focus of relatively little research. Since changes in Social Security benefit levels and other program characteristics can affect the benefit levels and other features of integrated pension plans, it is important to know who is covered by these plans. This article examines the characteristics of workers covered by inte...

Despite the comorbidity between motor difficulties and certain disabilities, limited research has examined links between early motor, cognitive, and social skills in preschool-aged children with developmental disabilities. The present study examined the relative contributions of gross motor and fine motor skills to the prediction of improvements in children's cognitive and social skills among 2...

We present Scenario Planning Advisor (SPA), that takes as input the relevant news and social media trends that characterize the current situation, as well as the domain knowledge and generates multiple plans explaining the observations and projecting future states. The resulting plans are clustered and summarized to generate the scenarios for use in scenario planning for enterprise risk managem...

Although the study of infancy has answered many important questions about the human capacity for social cognition, the relatively young field of developmental social cognition is far from reaching its adulthood. With the merging of developmental, behavioral and neurocognitive sciences, some growing pains are in store. New work demonstrates that research into early social cognitive development m...

OBJECTIVE Individuals with developmental prosopagnosia ('face blindness') have severe face recognition difficulties due to a failure to develop the necessary visual mechanisms for recognizing faces. These difficulties occur in the absence of brain damage and despite normal low-level vision and intellect. Adults with developmental prosopagnosia report serious personal and emotional consequences ...

Background: Since several factors, rather than a single cause, contribute to developmental delay in children, identification of the condition's risk factors and their pathway of effects are critical to the design and implementation of appropriate intervention .This study aimed to determine the relation between social determinants of maternal health and child development in Iranian mothers and t...

I use data from the University of California to empirically examine the role of social learning in employees’ choices of health plans. The basic empirical strategy starts with the observation that if social learning is important, decisions should appear to be correlated across employees within the same department. I present evidence of considerable “clustering” on health plans within department...