Wraparound services serve to support children/youth with remaining in a family setting. This study examines the level of the Kern County Aspiranet Wraparound Program in improving life domain functioning for children/youth and parents/ planned permanen . . .

The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of job related stress and organizational stress on negative coping behaviors in police officers. It was hypothesized that there is a positive relationship between job related stress and organizat . . .

Bush Anemone (Carpenteria californica Torr.) is a rare endemic shrub that exists within a limited range in Eastern Fresno County, California. Little floristic or vegetation research has been conducted on the species in its natural environment. The . . .

New employee orientation programs have shown to socialize newcomers to the company, in addition to increasing their knowledge, skills, and abilities. It is considered to be an essential part of an employee’s development (Acevedo & Yancey, 2011). Accor . . .

In their attempts to measure the relationship between the presentation order of communication information and audience responses, social scientists have developed two laws of persuasive communications "The Law of Primacy"¹ and "The Law of Recency . . .

In recent years the industrial crafts field has been experiencing a "twentieth-century renaissance." With this revival, many of the old world crafts have come to life, one of which is the art of creative knot tying known as macrame. As in all craf . . .

An area of significant importance in the education of hearing impaired children is amplification. Amplification, when properly prescribed and fitted, will offer the hard of hearing child greater auditory input, enabling him to obtain greater be . . .

An expanding number of large scale swine confine- ment units have entered into multiple farrowing programs Numerous observations have indicated that sows farrowing during the summer months have smaller litters with lighter weaning weights than t . . .

Ensuring the adequate care and treatment of mothers and their newborns has been a nationwide goal for the better part of the last five years. Specifically the reduction in early elective deliveries throughout the U.S. and Dignity Health’s current syst . . .

Compared to the United States, little or nothing is known about prenatal care and childbearing globally. The United States has its own health care system standards when it comes to prenatal care and delivery. What is known about the process of prenata . . .

The Integrated Health Care Organization referenced in this paper has a service unit known as the Patient Representatives. The role was created as part of strategic planning to improve the overall service level provided throughout the organization. Pat . . .

Education today is being held accountable for its many programs and activities it is using to educate its students. Community colleges' educational and vocational programs are constantly evaluated by using their graduates' successes as a measuring . . .

The healthcare system in El Salvador is perceived as a fundamental human right that falls under the responsibility of the government. Based on this principle, the government of El Salvador promotes a public healthcare model that provides not only heal . . .

Following the methods of Gardner and Gardner (1969) and Premack and Premack (1972), others have continued human- pongid two-way communication studies elaborating upon the procedures of both the former investigators. Fouts (1973), after the Gar . . .

Nematode susceptible and resistant cultivars of grapes were inoculated with nematodes. The rate of respiration of roots of these inoculated rooted plants were compared to the non infected plants of the same cultivar. The rate of respiration of inf . . .

In this study, information regarding the demographics, geography, and economy of Saudi Arabia is discussed to give overall background information about Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Arabian healthcare system and structure is discussed in more detail includi . . .

Considerable attention has been directed toward the study of rodent aggression wherein there lies a generally consistent view that male rodents are more aggressive than their female counterparts. The literature on female rodent aggression, however, . . .

Arvin is mainly composed of a migrant farm labor Spanish-speaking community. These community members make up parents of Arvin’s youth and they are the key to keeping the youth gang and crime free. By teaching these parents a focused gang prevention an . . .

The California Assembly Bill 109 Program Evaluation Thesis evaluated the overall effectiveness of the Public Safety Realignment Act. It noted the key objectives the legislation attempts to accomplish. The California Department of Corrections and Rehab . . .

Background: In 2013, there were a total of82 children that had a recurrence of maltreatment within 6 months in the county of Tulare. The goal of Tulare County CWS is to reduce and prevent recurrence of maltreatment. Tulare County Child Welfare Service . . .

One of the biggest problems facing incoming freshmen in American colleges today is lack of preparation in appropriate reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. These abilities are necessary for success not only in college but also in the profess . . .

This culminating project focuses on program evaluation by looking at pharmacy drive-through efficiency. The study was non-experimental and used both qualitative and quantitative data. Context analysis and regression analysis were used to analyze the g . . .

Post-secondary educational opportunities for hearing impaired people in the United States are limited in quantity and scope. There are presently three institutions functioning to educate hearing-impaired people eat the undergraduate college level on a . . .

Most, if not all, state vocational rehabilitation agencies have incorporated the use of Rehabilitation Counselors for the Deaf (RCD's). California has 41 such counselors who serve those hearing-impaired people who rely on sign language primarily to co . . .

Statement of the Problem. The problem is the need for a parent education program to serve Spanish-American parents of children enrolled in special education programs. Background of the Problem. Registration day for enrollment into the program serving . . .

I. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM One of the most critical problems facing education today is the exedus of teachers from the classroom. The movement of teachers away from the profession is a waste of human effort and financial expenditure. For school board . . .

THE NEED FOR LEARNING CENTERS. When Charles Silberman's book, Crisis in the Classroom, dramatically burst upon the American scene in August, 1971, American educators began to take a serious look at their schools, their teachers, their curricula and th . . .

The problem of underemployment of the deaf has led me to investigate the career opportunities in the para medical field. I have limited myself to this area primarily because the prediction is that medicine and the allied medical fields will be employi . . .

There exists minimal information concerning Independent Living Skills for young adults who are deaf. The need for practical and comprehensive educational programs dealing specifically with the skills required for independent living has long existed. T . . .

The purpose of this project is to present in broad perspective the conditions of the handicapped in relationship to society, the changes in those conditions in recent years (mainly through litigation efforts), and the challenges and possibilities of f . . .

The welfare Planning Council of Los Angeles in a Survey and Recommendations for a System to Deliver Services to those vocationally handicapped by Communication Disorders" point out the great need for services in the Los Angeles area. The report is fil . . .

This report is the collective viewpoints expressed by deaf educational leaders on a questionnaire prepared to gain information about the education of the deaf from a select group of respondents. Questions were those raised during the Leadership Traini . . .

Progression from high school to postsecondary education involves an orientation in some shape or form. This is true for deaf students equally as much as for their hearing peers. Frequently, such orientations do not wholly meet the needs of deaf studen . . .

This graduate project was undertaken with the intent of finding out what if any relationship there was between the employment of deaf persons and postsecondary programs attended. Information for the project was collected from vocational trade schools, . . .

In the spring of 1968, a group of graduate students in the Leadership Training Program in the Area of the Deaf at San Fernando Valley State College undertook a project concerned with community services for deaf persons. After surveying the needs of th . . .

Statement of Need. As a result of a study of multi-handicapped, deaf-blind parent programs in California, conducted by Lonna Anderson in 1970, it was discovered that there were no formalized programs for the education of parents of deaf-blind multiply . . .

INTRODUCTION It is always of interest to note that Alexander Graham Bell was a teacher of the deaf and that during the course of his experiments to construct a device to amplify sounds for his deaf' pupils, he invented the telephone. And, ironically, . . .

Man is communicative. He uses gestures, writings, and speaking in order to express his flow of thoughts. He lives and speaks in a planet of words. What man has, what man does, and what man is depends to a large degree on his ability to use words. The . . .

This paper attempts to demonstrate by reviewing the history of and the periodical literature on deaf-blindness in the United States, the need for a journal for professionals working with persons who are deaf-blind. The review was conducted by research . . .

The purpose of this graduate project was to investigate classroom placement of the multiply handicapped hearing impaired student. In limiting this study, an exploratory investigation of schools for the hearing impaired was conducted to compare how the . . .

It was the purpose of this study to determine the qualities of leadership desired by a hearing impaired person and compare them with those desired by a hearing person. The writer developed a questionnaire by utilizing the "three-skills" approach of Ka . . .

Two deaf candidates were first admitted to the Leadership Training Program in the Area of the Deaf in 1964 and since then there has been an average of five deaf participants in each class. Of a total of 102 graduates who have completed the training si . . .

The purpose of this paper is to provide a guide to be used by non- English-speaking parents of deaf children who are educated in schools that conduct classes in English, The lack of a set of guidelines for �now English-speaking parents of deaf childre . . .

Communication is the greatest problem of the deaf and significantly hearing-impaired. Deaf and hearing-impaired persons feel that many services and benefits that governmental agencies offer are not accessible to the deaf and hearing-impaired because o . . .

This project supports the method of achieving the principle of normalization through community group living versus institutional living for deaf-blind individuals. Various studies imply more normalized living patterns are established through such form . . .

The general purpose of this study was to determine if burnout existed among Rehabilitation Counselors for the Deaf within the state of California. A questionnaire was mailed out to thirty-eight Rehabilitation Counselors with the Deaf and there was a 7 . . .

Little attention has been directed in educational research to the identification of administrative problems in residential educational programs for deaf children. In light of current demands by consumers for program excellence the identification of ke . . .

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the involvement of the former NLTPers in the deaf community after completing their training program at CSUN. A questionnaire was developed and mailed to all NLTP graduate s to determine whether they became mo . . .