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Peer reviewedNewman, Sally; Ward, Christopher – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1993
Investigated whether dementing adult day care clients demonstrated positive behaviors during activities with young children that they did not demonstrate during similar activities without children. Findings from 21 clients revealed that adults showed significant increases in touching and extending hands in presence of children, while also showing…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Alzheimers Disease, Behavior Change, Prosocial Behavior
Glosser, Guila; And Others – 1991
Single word oral reading was systematically examined in a 6-year-old hyperlexic boy with mental retardation, attention deficit disorder, and hyperactivity. Reading performances were compared to those of normally developing readers and to those of patients with adult-onset alexias to test three hypotheses regarding the mechanisms of reading in…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Alzheimers Disease, Attention Deficit Disorders, Case Studies
