
Maureen NeihartAmerican Cooperative School of Tunisi
Maureen Neihart
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A multiple baseline design was conducted with four preschool teachers to examine the effects of the mobile-app-enabled program in improving their intervention fidelity in naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) for young children with ASD. Results: Results indicated that teachers who participated in the post training intervention...
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Identifying children with developmental delays and disabilities more effectively will require the participation of others such as preschool teachers who often have extended contact with the child in their first few years. We wished to determine how preschool teachers' reports of concerns compared with norming data from the Parents Eval...
Self-regulation strategies are helpful for increasing goal commitment and maintaining behavior change. Evidence suggests that the self-regulation strategy of mental contrasting with implementation intentions (MCII) shows promise in helping people increase their physical activity. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether these self-re...
Synopsis: There is a shortage of qualified and effective teachers in special education due to turnover, attrition and burnout. Locally, limited resources and high costs have hindered children with special needs from receiving prompt and timely intervention. Without early intervention, children with autism will suffer significantly with poor long te...
Communication intervention in early life can significantly impact long-term outcomes for young children with autism. Parents can be vital resources in the midst of the current manpower shortage. Map4speech is a new mobile application developed for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. It is specially designed to provide high-quality, i...
Promoting teacher quality is fundamental to improving student achievement; therefore, managing quality in teacher education
programmes has become critical to improving student outcomes (Chong and Ho in Int J Manage Educ 3:302–314, 2009; Cochran-Smith in Teach Educ 17:527–546, 2000; Darling-Hammond in J Teach Educ 51(3):166–173, 2000; Journal of Tea...
The field of positive psychology has identified brief interventions that increase individuals’ well-being and decrease depressive symptoms. An example is the best possible self (BPS) activity. It is a writing exercise that asks participants to project themselves into the future, and imagine they have met all their goals in every domain of their lif...
In this chapter counseling is contextualized in terms of diverse cultural and sociopolitical challenges Singapore. School counseling in Singapore falls directly under the purview of the Guidance Branch of the Ministry of Education. Presently community counseling services are also available from an increasing number of private counseling agencies an...
This study investigated how perceived external factors such as supports from parents and teachers, and influences from peers contributed to the academic successes and failures of Singaporean twice-exceptional (2e) students. A total of six 2e participants from one secondary school in Singapore voluntarily participated in the study. This study used a...
Many studies have reported that twice-exceptional (2e) students were vulnerable in psychological traits and exhibited low-academic self-concept and academic self-efficacy. Such vulnerability may cause their academic failures. This study applied interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), a qualitative approach to investigate the perceptions of...
Singapore, a tiny, multicultural island nation of five million people in Southeast Asia, is recognized globally for its high-performing educational system. Education for gifted children has a long history in Singapore. Efforts in recent years have attempted to broaden and diversify talent development opportunities for more students across many doma...
Teachers' positive attitude is most critically and consistently associated with successful inclusion. However, little is known about teachers' first-hand encounters with inclusive education in Singapore. We present findings from a qualitative study on inclusion based on focus group interviews with 202 teachers from 41 resourced primary schools. The...
The tiny, multicultural nation of Singapore has a long history of provisions for gifted students. Beliefs about ability and talent development are strongly influenced by traditional Confucian perspectives that view environmental factors as dominant in the development of talent. Early identification is not stressed and working hard is emphasized at...
Singapore, a tiny island nation, rose from 3rd‐ to 1st‐world status in just 3 decades. Unlike in most developed countries, counseling in Singapore has a short history with faith‐based beginnings and currently faces challenges to remain culturally relevant. The authors trace the development of Singapore's counseling services, provide an update regar...
This study explored the potential roles and utility of the Parents Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) to screen children for developmental delays in a Southeast Asian clinical sample of preschool children. The PEDS is a 10-item questionnaire instrument used in pediatric settings for reporting parents' concerns for their children's developmen...
This paper describes a preschool inclusion initiative in Singapore, which currently has no mandate for integrating children with special needs in mainstream schools. This very small-scale qualitative study involving children with mild learning disabilities discusses a therapy outreach programme by a local children's hospital. It explores the suppor...
Criminals don't just show up, they grow up. The precursors to adult criminal activity can be observed in some children as
early as the preschool years and some authorities believe that antisocial patterns of behavior are established by age 10.
In many cases, the developing criminal mind is evident by mid to late adolescence. What does it look like...
Although the academic gains associated with acceleration and peer ability grouping are well documented, resistance to their use for gifted students continues because of concerns that such practices will cause social or emotional harm to students. Results from the broad research indicate that grade skipping, early school entrance, and early admissio...
The organization of this book follows a four-section outline that the authors have found useful in conceptualizing the social and emotional issues facing the gifted child and the adults who care for them: section one, issues deriving from students' advancement compared with age peers and from internal unevenness in development; section two, common...
Asperger's Syndrome is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by deficits in social comnmniunication and by repetitive patterns of behaviors or interests. It is observed in some ifted children. The author proposes that gifted children with Asperger's Syndromie mnay not be identified because their unusual behaviors may be wrongly attribute...
There is evidence to support two contrasting views about the psychological well‐being of gifted children; that giftedness enhances resiliency in individuals and that giftedness increases vulnerability. There is empirical and theoretical evidence to support both views. It is clear that giftedness influences the psychological well‐being of individual...
This article describes systematic risk?taking, a strategy designed to develop skills and increase self?esteem, confidence and courage in gifted youth. The six steps of systematic risk?taking include understanding the benefits; initial self?assessment of risk?taking categories; identifying personal needs; determining a risk to take; taking the risk;...
This article describes psychodynamic treatment of juvenile homicide offenders whose lethal violence is the result of severe developmental deficits. The 3 major tasks of treatment are to reduce fear, to develop and strengthen ego functions, and to understand and accept the social, emotional, and legal consequences of homicide. The role of regression...
A brief, historical review of the alleged association between creativity and madness is followed by highlights from recent research in psychiatry and clinical psychology that address this relationship. The precise nature of this link is explored from the perspectives of several disciplines, and implications for the creative process in gifted educat...
Fundamental principles of self psychology are described to explain how the self begins and develops over the life span. The influences that contribute to the creation of false and true selves in gifted children are discussed and strategies for promoting the true self of gifted children are presented.
After several years of observations, interviews, and reviews of literature, the authors have developed six profiles of gifted and talented children and youth. These profiles help educators and parents to look closely at the feelings, behaviors, and needs of the gifted and talented. Also, tips on identification of each profile are included as well a...
This article reviews the history of self-directed learning for the gifted and describes the Autonomous Learner Model (Betts, 1985) which includes a strong affective component, career development, and guidelines for a process-based scope and sequence. Guidelines are provided for developing independent study programs for gifted learners. (Author/CB)
Educators are beginning to realize the importance of including the emotional and social domains with the cognitive when developing an approach for teaching the gifted and talented. Specific activities have been selected by the authors which have been field tested with small groups of students in summer programs and in the public and private school...
Twice exceptional children are those whose demonstrated performance falls in both directions of the learning spectrum. They demonstrate superior ability in one or more areas, and also have one or more disabilities. They may be gifted with serious emotional difficulties, gifted Asperger children, gifted children with attention-deficit hyperactivity...