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Vincent, Claude; Lachance, Jean-Paul; Deaudelin, Isabelle – Assistive Technology, 2012
This study sought to compare road safety of new drivers with low vision who have followed a specific pilot bioptic training program with other groups of drivers all matched for age and driving experience. A quasi-experimental design was used two years after drivers obtained their license. Drivers were classified in the experimental group (n = 10,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Accidents, Experimental Groups, Quasiexperimental Design
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Roman, Harry T. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2011
Street intersections are a source of accidents--for both automobiles and pedestrians. This article presents an intersection challenge that allows students to explore some possible ways to change the traditional intersection. In this challenge, teachers open up the boundaries and allow students to redesign their world. The first step is to help…
Descriptors: Accidents, Pedestrian Traffic, Traffic Safety, Motor Vehicles
McAvoy, Karen – Communique, 2012
A concussion is a brain injury that affects cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physical, and sleep/energy patterns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that approximately 1.6 to 3.8 million sports and recreational concussions occur each year. Countless more children sustain concussions from nonsports activities such as…
Descriptors: Expertise, Accidents, Early Intervention, Neurological Impairments
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Cook, Thomas Bradley; Davis, Mark S. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2012
Relatively little is known about legal entanglements and suicide risk. This matched case-control study estimated the risk of suicide associated with legal strains using online court archives, a novel source of exposure data. Court records linked to suicide deaths (N = 315), controls (N = 630), and unintentional injury and poisoning deaths (N =…
Descriptors: Prevention, Accidents, Suicide, Archives
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Ramos Olazagasti, Maria A.; Klein, Rachel G.; Mannuzza, Salvatore; Belsky, Erica Roizen; Hutchison, Jesse A.; Lashua-Shriftman, Erin C.; Castellanos, F. Xavier – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2013
Objective: To test whether children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), free of conduct disorder (CD) in childhood (mean = 8 years), have elevated risk-taking, accidents, and medical illnesses in adulthood (mean = 41 years); whether development of CD influences risk-taking during adulthood; and whether exposure to…
Descriptors: Accidents, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Children, Diseases
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Bae, Yong-Kyun; Benitez-Silva, Hugo – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011
The number of automobile recalls in the U.S. has increased sharply in the last two decades, and the numbers of units involved are often counted in the millions. In 2010 alone, over 20 million vehicles were recalled in the United States, and the massive recalls of full model lines by Toyota have brought this issue to the front pages around the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Accidents, Safety, Insurance
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Purcell, Catherine; Wann, John P.; Wilmut, Kate; Poulter, Damian – Developmental Science, 2012
Almost all locomotor animals are sensitive to optical expansion (visual looming) and for most animals this sensitivity is evident very early in their development. In humans there is evidence that responses to looming stimuli begin in the first 6 weeks of life, but here we demonstrate that as children become independent their perceptual acuity…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Visual Stimuli, Child Development, Visual Perception
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Okinaka, Takeru; Shimazaki, Tsuneo – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2011
A reversal design was used to evaluate the effects of vocal and written prompts as well as reinforcement on safe behavior (dismounting and walking bicycles or motorcycles on a sidewalk) on a university campus. Results indicated that an intervention that consisted of vocal and written prompts and reinforcement delivered by security guards was…
Descriptors: Influences, Reinforcement, Prompting, College Students
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Cacciatore, Joanne; Carlson, Bonnie; Michaelis, Elizabeth; Klimek, Barbara; Steffan, Sara – Social Work, 2011
This article describes a unique use of social workers as crisis response team (CRT) members in a nontraditional host setting, municipal fire departments in Arizona. The role of modern-day firefighters has changed dramatically and now includes responding to a wide variety of crises and emergencies other than fires, such as motor vehicle accidents,…
Descriptors: Accidents, Crisis Intervention, Altruism, Crisis Management
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Breen, Lauren J.; O'Connor, Moira – Death Studies, 2010
Theoretical arguments and empirical evidence demonstrate the limited utility of a narrow construction of "normal" grief. Sudden and violent death, the young age of the deceased, and perceptions of death preventability are associated with grief reactions that extend beyond an expected grief response. Interviews were conducted with 21…
Descriptors: Grief, Coping, Counseling Techniques, Accidents
Murphey, David; Vaughn, Brigitte; Barry, Megan; Terzian, Mary – Child Trends, 2012
A substantial proportion of high school students consume alcohol, with nearly a quarter of 12th grade students reporting binge drinking in the past two weeks. Drinking alcohol in adolescence is associated with a variety of other risky behaviors, as well as with an increased likelihood of long-term problems reaching into adulthood. This "Adolescent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Traffic Safety, Alcohol Abuse, Genealogy
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Hafner, John W.; Hough, Scott M.; Getz, Marjorie A.; Whitehurst, Yvette; Pearl, Richard H. – Journal of Rural Health, 2010
Context: All-terrain vehicles' (ATVs) popularity and associated injuries among children are increasing in the United States. Currently, most known ATV use pattern data are obtained from injured youth and little documented data exist characterizing the typical ATV use patterns and safety practices among American children in general. Purpose: To…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Safety, Prevention, Injuries
Coopman, J. T. – Principal Leadership, 2009
In this article, the author, a superintendent of Clark-Pleasant School Corporation in Whiteland, Indiana, relates how she and the school community responded to a car accident that killed two students. The author stresses the need to develop a comprehensive crisis plan. It is also important to be sensitive to the needs of family members who are…
Descriptors: Accidents, Tragedy, Motor Vehicles, Coping
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Peltomaki, Denise A. – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2008
This article demonstrates that affliction is a state of anguish that has physical, social and psychological dimensions as well as spiritual ramifications. In this way, affliction is the most profound form of suffering, as it leaves no area of life unscathed. The article--written from a confessional perspective--explores the following concepts in…
Descriptors: Accidents, Motor Vehicles, Student Attitudes, Children
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Denholm, Carey John – Clinical Psychologist, 2009
Described in this paper are the multiple injuries the author sustained as a result of a serious motor vehicle accident 5 years previously and the subsequent surgical and medical treatment. Also described are the different coping and adaptive skills he utilised during and after hospitalisation and how the nature of surgical and medical intervention…
Descriptors: Accidents, Medical Services, Nursing, Psychologists
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