Developed by a work group representing several nonprofit and federal health and education organizations, Students with Chronic Illnesses: Guidance for Families, Schools, and Students provides cross-cutting action steps to facilitate full participation in learning and other school activities by students with chronic diseases. Between 10% and 15% of children in the United States are affected by a...

BACKGROUND In resource-poor settings with low doctor-population ratio, there is need for equitable distribution of healthcare workforce. The specialty preferences of medical students determine the future composition of physician workforce hence its relevance in career guidance, healthcare planning and policy formulation. This study was aimed at determining the specialty preferences of final yea...

The purpose of this study is to explore the Iowa School Library Survey data at ten year intervals to describe differences in professional teacher librarian staffing levels, time spent supporting reading guidance, and time spent in collaboration with other teachers. Raw data was examined from the 2003-2004 and 2013-2014 School Library Surveys. Although 1034 surveys were completed in 2003-2004, a...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand smartphone use guidance experiences parents elementary school students.Methods: Qualitative data were collected from 10 students through individual in-depth interview January 2022 February 2022. Collected analyzed using the Colaizzi’s phenomenological method.Results: following four categories derived interviews: ‘Ambivalence on children's use...

Digital video technologies offer a variety of functions for supporting collaborative learning in classrooms. Yet, for novice learners, such as school students, positive learning outcomes also depend centrally on effective social interactions. We present empirical evidence for the positive effects of instructive guidance on performance and on learning of students who use web-based video tools du...

Objectives: It has been noted that stuttering is more prevalent in bilinguals than in monolinguals. The similarities of the languages involved have been mentioned to justify the difference between stuttering prevalence among bilingual and monolingual speakers. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of language similarities on prevalence of stuttering among Kurdish-Farsi bilingual st...

OBJECTIVE Previous research has recommended education for parents, teachers, and anticipatory guidance by pediatricians regarding participation in the so-called choking game, a potentially fatal behavior. The purpose of this study was to examine possible associations between selected demographic variables and risk behaviors with youth engagement in the choking game on the basis of secondary dat...