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Edwards, Richard – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2006
This paper explores the question of the purpose of education within the context of Lyotard's framing of the postmodern condition. It points to some of the continuities and discontinuities in the framing of the current condition as postmodern and the recurrent problematics of truth-telling which is the mark of this condition. It suggests that…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Postmodernism, Models, Ethics
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Yaruss, J. Scott; Quesal, Robert W. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2004
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently presented a multidimensional classification scheme for describing health status and the experience of disablement. This new framework, the "International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health" (ICF; WHO, 2001), is a revision of WHO's prior framework for describing the consequences of…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Stuttering, Communication Disorders, Quality of Life
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Berkowitz, Mozelle; And Others – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1994
This article presents a service delivery model for treating schoolchildren who stutter, involving weekly treatment sessions with groups of students after the school day, along with monthly meetings with their parents, focused both on changing attitudes about stuttering and on controlling stuttering behaviors. Results support the efficacy of a…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Attitude Change, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education