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The Handwriting Legibility Scale: A Language and Age Extension for Students with and without Specific Learning Difficulties
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Nichola Stuart; Stefania Zoia; Marina Biancotto; Anna L. Barnett – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
Handwriting is a useful skill through education, yet handwriting difficulties are common in students with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD), including Developmental Coordination Disorder. There are few practical tools to assess legibility, among these the Handwriting Legibility Scale (HLS) shows good reliability and validity for 9- to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handwriting, Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities
Young People's Reading and Writing: An In-Depth Study Focusing on Enjoyment, Behaviour, Attitudes and Attainment
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Clark, Christina; Douglas, Jonathan – National Literacy Trust, 2011
At the end of 2009 the National Literacy Trust surveyed 17,000 children and young people online in the United Kingdom's largest ever study of young people's attitudes to literacy and literate behaviour. This survey was of special interest as it repeated questions asked by the National Literacy Trust in a survey of attitudes and reading behaviour…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Literature Appreciation, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
The Working Alliance in Online Therapy with Young People: Preliminary Findings
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Hanley, Terry – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2009
This paper examines the quality of the working alliance in online counseling relationships with young people. A mixed method approach has been adopted which combines the completion of a self-report quantitative measure (the "Therapeutic Alliance Quality Scale") and qualitative interviews with service users of a UK-based service…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Counselor Client Relationship, Counseling Techniques, Computer Mediated Communication
Methods and Measures Used for Follow-up at 15 Years of the English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) Study
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Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
This chapter covers the methods and measures used in the ERA study, with a special focus on age 15 outcomes. First, the authors outline the sample participation rate for the 15-year follow-up--the percentages in all cases referring to the numbers at the time of initial sample contact. They then describe the measures used in this monograph,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption, Followup Studies, Research Methodology
Ambiguities around Sexuality: An Approach to Understanding Harassment and Bullying of Young People in British Schools
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Trotter, Joy – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2009
This article is based on a small study undertaken in 2001, which examined the experiences of and responses to sexual harassment and bullying adopted by different professionals (teachers, education social workers, youth workers and a school nurse) and by young people (12 to 25-year-olds). It draws together some of the literature relating to young…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexual Harassment, Bullying, School Nurses
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Carpenter, Angelica Shirley – School Library Journal, 2006
This article presents an interview with Jacqueline Wilson, a popular British author of children's books. Wilson has published 86 books for children and young adults with more than 20 million copies sold in the U.K. alone. Wilson's fans--mostly seven- to 14-year-old girls--love her gripping plots about dysfunctional families, homelessness, and…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Homeless People, Family Violence, Childrens Literature