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Liu, Xian; Sun, Xin; Sun, Caihong; Zou, Mingyang; Chen, Yiru; Huang, Junping; Wu, Lijie; Chen, Wen-Xiong – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
The literature from inception to 2020 on the prevalence of epilepsy in autistic individuals was systematically reviewed and further explored by subgroup analyses and meta-regression models. This systematic review is registered with PROSPERO (CRD42020179725). A total of 66 studies from 53 articles were included. The updated pooled prevalence of…
Descriptors: Epilepsy, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Incidence
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Willems, Melina; van Berlaer, Gerlant; Maes, Leen; Leyssens, Laura; Koehler, Bjoern; Marks, Luc – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: Undetected ear and hearing problems negatively impact the quality of life of people with intellectual disability. Methods: This multicentre retrospective study describes the outcome of 10 years of ear and hearing screening in athletes with intellectual disability in seven European countries. The screening was conducted by a trained…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Screening Tests, Hearing Impairments, Hearing (Physiology)
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Carioti, Desiré; Masia, Marta Franca; Travellini, Simona; Berlingeri, Manuela – Annals of Dyslexia, 2021
Cross-cultural studies have suggested that reading deficits in developmental dyslexia (DD) can be moderated by orthographic depth. To further explore this issue and assess the moderating role of orthographic depth in the developmental cognitive trajectories of dyslexic and typical readers, we systematically reviewed 113 studies on DD that were…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Developmental Disabilities, Reading Difficulties, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Cook, Rose – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2018
Previous research suggests that as societies empower women educationally, gender differences in numeracy skills will decline. Using direct measures of 56,142 adults' numeracy skills from the Programme for International Assessment for Adult Competencies (PIAAC), this article studies whether this claim is evidenced across 20 Organisation for…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Adults, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills
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Tillmann, J.; Ashwood, K.; Absoud, M.; Bölte, S.; Bonnet-Brilhault, F.; Buitelaar, J. K.; Calderoni, S.; Calvo, R.; Canal-Bedia, R.; Canitano, R.; De Bildt, A.; Gomot, M.; Hoekstra, P. J.; Kaale, A.; McConachie, H.; Murphy, D. G.; Narzisi, A.; Oosterling, I.; Pejovic-Milovancevic, M.; Persico, A. M.; Puig, O.; Roeyers, H.; Rommelse, N.; Sacco, R.; Scandurra, V.; Stanfield, A. C.; Zander, E.; Charman, T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Research on sex-related differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been impeded by small samples. We pooled 28 datasets from 18 sites across nine European countries to examine sex differences in the ASD phenotype on the ADI-R (376 females, 1763 males) and ADOS (233 females, 1187 males). On the ADI-R, early childhood restricted and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Diagnostic Tests, Observation
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Hämäläinen, Raija; De Wever, Bram; Nissinen, Kari; Cincinnato, Sebastiano – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: Research has shown that the problem-solving skills of adults with a vocational education and training (VET) background in technology-rich environments (TREs) are often inadequate. However, some adults with a VET background do have sound problem-solving skills. The present study aims to provide insight into the socio-demographic,…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Adults, Vocational Education, Technology Education
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Mamedova, Saida; Sparks, Dinah; Hoyer, Kathleen Mulvaney – National Center for Education Statistics, 2017
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conducted the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), a multi-domain adult skills assessment with an extensive background questionnaire, in 2012. PIAAC is a global effort to understand how individuals' education, workplace experiences, and other…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
Open Society Foundations, 2015
This paper and the four commissioned works on which it is based are guided by the important question: How can we start valuing practices and outcomes of teaching and learning that are difficult to reduce to numbers? As the process of developing indicators for the Post-2015 education targets unfolds, some of the targets are at risk of being dropped…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation, Preschool Education
Lewin, Keith M. – Open Society Foundations, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to review recent developments related to the development of indicators of educational progress in the context of the Post 2015 deliberations to generate a new international architecture for educational investment through to 2030. There have been a plethora of suggestions and several parallel consultation processes…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation, Preschool Education
Syracuse Univ., NY. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Education. – 1968
THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT (1964-67) ANNOTATIONS AND ABSTRACTS IS DIVIDED INTO SECTIONS RELATING TO THE CHARACTERISTICS AND LEARNING ABILITIES OF OLDER ADULTS, TRAINING PROGRAMS, AND RETIREMENT AND PRERETIREMENT EDUCATION. SUCH TOPICS AND AREAS OF CONCERN AS STABILITY AND CHANGE IN ADULT CHARACTERISTICS (INCLUDING CHANGES IN GOALS), EDUCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Age, Age Differences