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Edwards, Tiffany G. – Online Submission, 2020
The number of homeless children and youth in the United States is on the rise (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2016). Between 2016 and 2017 in the Los Angeles County Homeless Count, there was a 41% increase in the number of homeless minors (The Los Angeles Service Authority, 2017). Education is key to bringing people out of…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Educational Attainment, Case Studies, Volunteers
Pagliano, Paul – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Do you support a child or adult with sensory perceptual issues or cognitive impairment? For people with challenging sensory and cognitive conditions, everyday life can become so unpredictable and chaotic that over time, lack of engagement can often lead to a state of learned helplessness. In this insightful text, Paul Pagliano shows how "learned…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Intervention, Helplessness, Learning Disabilities
Dweck, Carol S. – 2000
Based on extensive research with children and young adults, this book examines adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows how these patterns originate in people's self theories; their consequences for one's achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society; and the experiences that…
Descriptors: Achievement, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development