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Mental health laws in Florida

the community than involuntary in-patient committal. However, the overall aim of legislation such as the Baker Act remain...

Funding Schools in Florida

counts" (Glossary of school finance terms). Both terms deal with finding the average number of students in school, but the ADM app...

Basic Healthcare for the Children of California

the state has focused on methods for improving access to care by gaining the support from organizations like Health Access Califor...

Newspaper Article Example: Be Prepared for the Next Hurricane Season

evacuation plan recommends locating a place to go in case of emergency and planning a route, in addition to keeping relevant phone...

Assessment, Program Development and Program Evaluation for Students with Special Needs

(ODD). Conduct Disorder (CD) The behavior of children with conduct disorder typically violates the rights of others and it can b...

Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

cause of a childs disease or malady or because they use the accusation of MSBP as a ploy to avoid malpractice suits (Johns, 2007)....

The Controversies over Autism and its Impact on Treatment Choices

on the choices of families and on treatment options for autism. This study will consider the existing controversies, including as...

Juveniles Tried as Adults: A Problem Statement

the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...

The No Child Left Behind Act

implications that definitely go against the grain of some long-established educational practices. Given the problematic n...

Suffer the Restless Child by Alfie Kohn

children every year, all pointing to the fact that it is really not just one condition, and that many factors play a part in how p...

Belief In A Just World Theory

the just world theory. Some of those outcomes include: more satisfaction with life, in general, better mental health, better physi...

Motorcycle Accidents in Florida

(Motorcycle helmet use laws, 2007). This is an estimated 117 lives that were lost needlessly because the law was changed (Motorcyc...

The Broward County Public School System

late and the board is reconsidering their recruitment and evaluation process. With all of these things occurring, Broward has made...

Florida Congressional District

voters (Florida state profile, 2006). Florida itself is "closely divided between the parties and politically volatile" although t...

14th Congressional District - Florida

of himself with his wife and children in his latest campaign; yet he is now divorced and is allegedly linked romantically with Con...

The Case of Steve/Susan Stanton

when he learned that Stanton was in the process of changing his sex from a man to a woman Aradi simply felt compassion, feeling th...

Learned Mothering: Raising a Child with ADHD

ADHD as they can impact social worker response and even the response of educators. Methodology The subjects of this study were...

Computers Use for Education and Leisure for the Visually and Hearing Impaired

use of computers increase or decrease the social interaction of the hearing impaired learners? Introduction Educators and ...

The Causes of Learning Disabilities

settings, to demonstrate that educatorse and parentse are "on the same team" and that it is likely that they both want the same th...

The NAEP and No Child Left Behind

This 4 page paper provides an overview of the issue of the No Child Left Behind Act and relates the major factors influencing thos...

Observation of a Child with ADHD

I observed his activities from 9 a.m. through lunch and into his playground period after lunch. There were multiple transitions d...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Children and the Placement of Nasogastric Feeding Tubes

been viewed in the current literature as a plausible method for accurately determining nasogastric tube placement in pediatric pop...

Florida Construction of Hybrid Homes

environmentally friendly and will save the consumer money on oil and gas. One writer describes the new look of these green homes...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Alternatives to Public Transit in Orlando, Florida

In eight pages this paper examines tourism in central Florida and the need for efficient and environmentally friendly public trans...

Research on After School Programs

computers and a brighter future for themselves" (U.S. Department of Education, 1998). It has long been known that quality after ...

Children to the Age of Twelve and the Impact of TV Violence

Institute of Mental Health in 1982 (Murray, 1995). The conclusion of the research that had been conducted in those ten years indic...

New Zealand and Giftedness

student population by virtue of their special abilities. This reason, in and of itself, has enabled New Zealand to better underst...