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Objective: There is substantial variability in early diagnostic features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), suggesting heterogeneity in clinical presentation. The present study aims to identify distinct profiles of social communication...
Morphological knowledge, which refers to a conscious awareness of or the ability to use the smallest units of meaning in a language, may be important in learning to read English. However, the underlying nature of this construct is not...
This manuscript uses sound localization circuitry in the chick brainstem to examine the balance of inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmission maintained by neural circuits. This is a particular challenge in sensory systems, like the...
Approximately 48, 300 people die by suicide yearly in the United States (U.S.) alone. Just over half of these deaths result from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, which is to be expected given that 9 out of 10 attempts involving a firearm...
Numerous identified factors are associated with suicide cross-sectionally and across long follow-up periods, but methodological limitations have hindered examination of these constructs as short-term predictors of suicide risk. The use...
Although prevalent, death by suicide is a statistically rare event – making it difficult to identify factors that can best predict behavioral risk and inform suicide risk assessment and management. Experimental tests of theories of...
The relation between self-regulation and both academic skills and internalizing symptoms is well-established. However, open questions remain regarding the nature of this relation and about whether similar or different aspects of self...
The Lexical Restructuring Model (LRM; Metsala & Walley, 1998) attempts to explain the development of phonological awareness. According to the LRM, as children's vocabularies increase, children develop a more refined lexical...
Suicide and depression are serious and growing public health problems. Despite their substantial global health burden, relatively few interventions have been found to be efficacious at preventing these conditions. The aims of the current...
This study examined whether pre-service teachers demonstrated bias when presented with reading assessment results in graphical form accompanied by a description of pseudo-students that differed across three achievement levels (low, ...
Two theories have been proposed to explain the covariation between antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), histrionic personality disorder (HPD), and psychopathy: the sex differentiated-manifestation hypothesis (e.g., Hamburger, Hogben, ...
This study utilized confirmatory factor analyses and latent change score analyses to model individual and developmental differences in a longitudinal study of children's writing. Participants were 158 children who completed a writing...
The present study investigated the malleability and the roles of both physical pain tolerance and fearlessness about death in acquired capability for suicide utilizing experimental methods involving acetaminophen and a social learning...
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a chronic disorder associated with long-term impairment across multiple life domains, including academic, occupational, social, and psychological (Barkley, Murphy, & Kwasnik, 1996;...
The present study investigated the meta-relations among common components of reading comprehension. The Simple View of Reading (SVR, Hoover & Gough, 1990) posits that reading comprehension is the sum or product of linguistic...
For my dissertation, I used whole nerve and single-cell recording methods to investigate the influence of organic anions and organic acids on sodium responses by the chorda tympani nerve (CT) that innervates taste buds on the anterior...
The structure of executive function (EF) was examined with both 3- and 4-year-old children. How EF, as well as how working memory (WM) and inhibitory control (IC) components of EF, related to academic and socio-emotional outcomes over...
Although word knowledge is often conceptualized as an "all or nothing" phenomenon, the dichotomy of this perspective may not capture what children actually know when they "know" a word. An alternative perspective, that word knowledge is...
Although it is recognized in the literature that there is a strong association between ADHD and reading ability in elementary school children, knowledge regarding the relation between ADHD-characteristic behaviors and emergent literacy...
Known as the belief about the malleability of intelligence, the concept of intelligence mindset has been embraced by the United States education system and abroad. Specifically, some research suggests that growth mindset (i.e., belief...
Recent advances have been made to measure suicidal thoughts implicitly using the Death Implicit Association Test (D-IAT). This measure is promising, but the D-IAT has some methodological flaws, one of which is that it relies solely on...
Various environments were examined under an etiological scope in an effort to better understand the influence of genes on these environmental contexts for the present study. Using the Bioecological theoretical framework by Bronfenbrenner...
The current study assessed the utility of callous-unemotional (CU) traits for differentiating non-referred female conduct problem presentations in adolescence. The study used an extreme-groups methodology to recruit 45 participants, ages...
Parafoveal processing, the ability to extract linguistic information from locations beyond the currently fixated word, is a core component of skilled reading. Recent theoretical debate on this topic is focused on the question of whether...
The goal of the study was to examine the impact of executive function on solving intermixed problems that require different solution strategies. 138 participants completed an arithmetic choice task where participants choose the correct...
This dissertation analyzes written language samples from fifth grade students with limited English proficiency from Spanish home language backgrounds. Written language sample holistic quality scores and Florida Assessments for...
The anterior third of the hypothalamus contains numerous nuclei involved in the regulation of reproductive, stress, circadian, and homeostatic behaviors. Due to the multifarious roles of this small area, neurotransmission is diverse and...
Early intervention for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is critical, given the potential for altering brain development and the increasing focus on early screening and diagnosis. Evidence is emerging for the efficacy of...
Fluency is highly correlated with reading comprehension, yet little empirical research has investigated the underlying nature of fluency. This study examined the constructs of fluency in reading and rapid naming. Alternative models of...
In view of recent findings regarding the multiple associations between rumination with depression as well as anxiety, the purpose of this study was to determine whether associations of rumination with internalizing symptoms is reflective...
Interoceptive acuity is defined as adeptness at detecting changes in autonomic reactivity (McNally, 1996). Poor interoceptive acuity, i.e. discordance between subjective and physiological reactivity to stressors, has been associated with...
Nigg (2001) recently proposed a disinhibition taxonomy that shows promise in isolating unique impulse control impairments related to child conduct problems. The current study investigated the relation between distinct inhibitory...
Staff who aid teachers in classrooms for children with special needs are not always well prepared for their jobs. Oftentimes in-service training is offered and no follow up on their behavior or improvement is noted. This lack of training...
The Computerized Monitoring of Early Reading Skills (CMERS) is a computer adaptive test designed to measure reading skills (alphabetic knowledge, phonological awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency) in students in kindergarten...
Small group instruction was provided to preschool children (n = 58) to examine (1) potential benefits of systematic alphabet instruction as compared to typical preschool instruction, (2) the letter name-to-sound facilitation effect, (3)...
Recent research supports the multidimensionality of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), but the structure of ODD symptoms has been inconsistent across studies. Despite differences, each model has an affective dimension, usually shown to...
Understanding Differences in Student Growth on Measures of Oral Reading Fluency, Vocabulary, and Reading Comprehension in Grades 1-3: Child, Classroom, and School Sources of Influence
Relatively few studies have examined the extent to which variability in growth across different reading outcomes is associated with differences across children, classrooms, or schools. The purpose of the current study was to investigate...
Effortful control (EC) is defined as the ability to inhibit or delay a prepotent response, typically in favor of a subdominant response. It has been suggested that, in young children (i.e., preschool-aged), EC is a multidimensional...
Continuous Performance Test (CPT) is a term used to describe a family of cognitive tasks that require an individual to view a sequence of stimuli on a screen while responding under certain conditions and withholding responses under other...
Social media has been implicated as a correlate and a cause of increased disordered eating in men and women. Yet, little is known about how specific aspects of social media impact eating disorder pathology. Through utilization of a two...
In light of dual-process models of social cognition, relationship scientists have utilized measures designed to bypass deliberative processing in order to capture spouses' more automatic attitudes about their partners and their...
Each year millions of people develop suicide plans. These plans are consistently cited as critical indicators of suicide risk by clinicians, researchers, and suicide prevention agencies. Having the ability to accurately predict suicide...
The relationship between school spending and academic performance is one that is constantly being assessed and evaluated. More rarely however, is the evaluation of how efficiently that spending is taking place. This paper used a method...
Interplay between Trait Disinhibition and Neural Reward Sensitivity in Substance Problems: A Longitudinal Analysis Utilizing Data from a Large-Scale Neuroimaging Study
Dysfunctional reward processing and disinhibitory tendencies have been highlighted as central to the development and maintenance of substance use disorders (SUDs). The literature emphasizes two different interpretations of the reward...
Learning to read is a major developmental achievement with wide ranging societal, educational, and economic costs associated with low literacy attainment. A robust body of literature has documented the stability and persistence of...
This study examined latent growth curve modeling in restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) in 82 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) enrolled in two parent-implemented treatment conditions. Home observations were coded using...
Two hundred and three third-grade students took part in a study that examined the relationships between three dimensions of word knowledge and reading comprehension. Each participant was administered six measures of word knowledge. The...
Bioecological theory suggests that development, including reading development, occurs through interactions between individuals and proximal environmental contexts (Bronfenbrenner & Ceci, 2004), though neighborhood characteristics are...
Shifting, or cognitive flexibility, is a core executive function (EF) involving the ability to flexibly shift back and forth between tasks or mental sets (Miyake et al., 2012). Meta-analysis suggests that shifting may be impaired in ADHD...
There has been much speculation about the effects of motivation for literacy on literacy skills; yet, the relations between these variables not been established in preschool, the developmental period during which children begin to...
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