... some continue to have children despite their elder handicapped child. This is why Hughes chose to test for executive functioning and spatial span in the normal siblings. She wanted to see if these genetic links affected the apparently normal children. In this particular study, doctors compared the spatial working memory and executive control of autism siblings, developmental delay siblings, and siblings of ... span and rote-recall. One must keep in mind, however, that this is also a characteristic of some higher-functioning children with autism. (Hughes, 1999) With the concern of genetics...

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... sees fit. Apple's broad-stroke research draws from the methodologies of the historian and essayist as well as the traditional educational researcher. This is a common approach among critical theorists because they are often concerned with larger and more complex issues, such as the study of how integrated learning systems improve the achievement test scores of disadvantaged students. C.A. Bowers (1988) used ... a similar approach in his paper entitled "Teaching a Nineteenth-Century Mode of Thinking Through a Twentieth-Century Machine." In the paper, he argues that the way personal comput...

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... fatal traffic risks. Much of the research will therefore focus on which variables to include. When the model has a solid theoretical foundation, it will be run on the Swedish data described above to produce Swedish risk values. Diagnostic test will then finally determine the econometric model. Driver inattention is a major contributor to highway crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ... 8. Dialing cellular phone 9. Using device/object brought into vehicle 10. Using device/controls integral to vehicle 11. Adjusting climate controls 12. Other distraction 13. Unknown di...

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