We report on the support from senior leaders, outside agents and parents, experienced by Norwegian elementary school teachers while working with shy students. A national sample completed a questionnaire based on teacher ...

This thesis is in the field of special needs education, more precisely psychosocial difficulties. The aim of this thesis is to examine how schools and school leadership teams support teachers in their work with shy students, ...

Avhandlingen er skrevet innenfor det spesialpedagogiske fagområdet og er utført ved Institutt for spesialpedagogikk, Det Utdanningsvitenskapelige fakultet, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo Met, Storbyuniversitetet og Statped. Et ...

Purpose: This narrative systematic review in line with PRISMA guidelines aims to investigate the implementation quality of previously published group comparison clinical trials of stuttering interventions for children and ...

Abstract Poor metaphor comprehension was considered a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but recent research has questioned the extent and the sources of these difficulties. In this cross-sectional study, we ...

Cognitive control is applied in situations that require overriding a habitual and automatic response. The conflict monitoring hypothesis and the Expected Value of Control (EVC) theory as its extension posit a control system ...

In this study, we investigated how word- and text-level processes contribute to different types of reading fluency measures. We aimed to increase our understanding of the underlying processes necessary for fluent reading. ...

Danilo Dolci (1924-1997) was an Italian intellectual, social activist, sociologist, popular educator, and poet, who spent his life in the rural areas of Sicily, trying to develop a progressive view of education as part of ...

Child maltreatment (CM) is a devastating public health problem that affects more than half of all children worldwide. The United Nations (UN) launched an initiative to eliminate CM as part of their 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

Abstract The Deglutition Handicap Index (DHI) is a self-report measure for patients at risk of oropharyngeal dysphagia on deglutition-related aspects of functional health status (FHS) and health-related quality of life ...

Abstract Research into second language (L2) reading is an exponentially growing field. Yet, it still has a relatively short supply of comparable, ecologically valid data from readers representing a variety of first ...

Previous studies have shown that the ability to simultaneously process multiple items when these appear in serial format (called “cascaded” processing) is an important element of reading fluency. However, most evidence in ...

Abstract Although the roles of symbolic numerical magnitude processing (SNMP) and working memory (WM) in mathematics performance are well acknowledged, studies examining their joint effects are few. Here, we investigated ...

Today, in Western countries, a majority of children, adolescents, and young adults diagnosed with cancer are expected to survive, potentially and hopefully until old age. There is a need for research that expands our ...

Abstract The management of dysphagia may differ by country and clinical setting. The purpose of this study was to describe the management and care pathways for elderly people with dysphagia in nursing homes across Norway ...

The aim of this quantitative study was to analyze teachers’ most common and perceived effective strategies for reducing anxiety in shy elementary-school students. Participants were 275 elementary-school teachers, representative ...

Scientific studies of language behavior need to grapple with a large diversity of languages in the world and, for reading, a further variability in writing systems. Yet, the ability to form meaningful theories of reading ...

Individuals with the combination of psychopathy and severe conduct disorder often get in a lot of trouble from their early childhood, and can cause great suffering and problems for other people and their immediate environment. ...

Shy children can find engaging with classroom demands challenging, inhibiting their development as agentic learners. In the present study, seven Norwegian elementary school teachers with acknowledged success with shy ...

A notably high percentage (33%) of students with mathematics learning difficulties (MLD) has been reported in Tibet, which can partly be explained by the current state of mathematics teaching. Less known is what kind of ...

This paper investigates one aspect of meaning making that occurs in the wake of systemic change. It addresses the question of how time is re-configured by socio-material changes resultant from the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing ...

Children with low performance in early numeracy are at risk of facing learning difficulties in mathematics, but few trials have examined how this can be ameliorated. A total of 120 first-grade children ( M age = 6.4 years) ...

Objectives This study compared the parent-reported structural language and social communication skills—measured with the Children's Communication Checklist-2 (CCC-2)—and health-related quality of life (HR-QOL)—measured ...

BACKGROUND: For people with intellectual disability (ID), competitive integrated employment (CIE) offers many important benefits, including opportunities for inclusion as well as enhanced mental health and quality of life. ...

Purpose Children with cerebral palsy (CP) are at risk of cognitive impairments and need to be cognitively assessed to allow for individualized interventions, if applicable. Therefore, a systematic protocol for the ...

Research on the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment (ICE) has long attempted to identify the impact of family background, specifically parent’s education. However, previous research has largely ignored ...

This study investigated the effect of the digital Down Syndrome LanguagePlus (DSL+) intervention on vocabulary outcomes through a school-delivered randomized controlled trial. A national sample of first graders with Down ...

Abstract The paper discusses the problem of master theses’ production in psychology from a decolonial perspective. It presents a critique to the reproductive and monological model of knowledge currently promoted in higher ...

This paper intends to establish a dialogue between psychoanalysis and cultural psychology, more specifically regarding the discussions about identity. It is an exercise that follows the modern trend of interdisciplinarity ...

Disabilities and neurodiversity are dominantly understood as something that challenges higher education rather than something that enriches it: ableist underpinnings characterize higher education despite policies of widened ...

Abstract Bilingualism appears to be related to poor language and reading comprehension in the instructional language (L2). However, in the long term, an early age of second language acquisition (AoA) may produce higher ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) comprises a heterogeneous group of conditions recognized by disturbances of movement and posture and is caused by a non-progressive injury to the developing brain. Birth prevalence of CP is about 2–2.5 ...

Despite the availability of evidence-based treatment models for adolescent behavior problems, little is known about the effectiveness of these programs for adolescents with callous-unemotional (CU) traits. Defined by lack ...

Problemstilling og forskningsspørsmål: Denne studien har til hensikt å belyse hvordan en lærer tilrettelegger for sosial inkludering av en elev med ASF. Studiens problemstilling lyder som følger: Hvordan tilrettelegger en ...

 

Sammendrag Formål og problemstilling På en intensivavdeling er det flere pasientgrupper som kan ha nytte av å bli kartlagt og fulgt opp av logoped. Logopedene besitter viktig ekspertise om svelg, kommunikasjon og ...

Tema og problemstilling: Fonasteni er en funksjonell stemmevanske hvor organiske forandringer normalt sett ikke er noe som påvises ved undersøkelse. Symptomer kan blant annet være ubehag, smerte, ømhetsfølelse, stemmetretthet, ...

Problemstillingen er «Hvilken betydning har organiseringen av undervisningen for elevenes læringsmotivasjon». Elever med dysleksi kan ha noen vanskeligheter med å opprettholde motivasjon i teoretiske fag da mange sliter ...

Formålet med denne studien var å gi et innblikk i hvilke erfaringer foreldre til barn og unge med multifunksjonshemming hadde med kommunikasjonshjelpemiddelet KnowMe. KnowMe er et relativt nytt teknologisk hjelpemiddel, ...

I denne oppgaven studerer vi fonologiske prosesser hos et utvalg 3- og 4-åringer i typisk språkutvikling. Fonologiske prosesser er forenklinger i barns uttale av ord og er et vanlig trekk ved barns tidlige språkutvikling ...

Tittel Barnehagelæreres opplevelse av å delta i piloteringen av bildebøker utviklet i SL+-prosjektet. Bakgrunn og formål Denne studien er knyttet til forskningsprosjektet The Second Language Learners Plus Intervention ...

Passing is the research of oneself by trying to look and to be seen as a member of a social group by assuming its features. Individuals performing this process are willing to undergo several physical and behavioural changes ...

Bakgrunn og formål: Historisk sett har erkjennelsen av at mennesker forgriper seg på barn blitt møtt med sterke og motstridende kulturelle krefter (Søftestad, 2018). Misbruk av barn har vært, og er dessverre fremdeles, ...

I denne oppgaven studerer vi fonologiske prosesser hos et utvalg 3- og 4-åringer i typisk språkutvikling. Fonologiske prosesser er forenklinger i barns uttale av ord og er et vanlig trekk ved barns tidlige språkutvikling ...

Background There is increasing recognition of the contribution of morphological skills to the development of reading fluency. However, theoretical models and recent research raise questions about how different language ...

«Matematikk er jo overalt». En kvalitativ undersøkelse om personalets bevissthet til matematikk i barnehagen. Formålet med denne studien er å få innsikt i hvordan personalet kan bli mer bevisst matematikken i barns lek. ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a widespread state of uncertainty and disorientation regarding daily practices and beliefs, creating multiple sense-making processes. The purpose of the study, which is part of a larger ...

Studien søkte å utforske kommunikasjonsopplevelser til personer med kognitive kommunikasjonsvansker, og ga personer rammet av ervervet hjerneskade muligheten til å gi sine egne synspunkter om hvordan kognitive endringer ...

Objective: The purpose of this master thesis is to get an indication on how elderly with hearing loss experience the hearing rehabilitation services in Norway. The thesis also includes an insight in their day-to-day life, ...

This master thesis paper aims to examine the quality of life of Polish immigrant children in the Norwegian educational system. The study is based on two theoretical frameworks that are essential in describing and exploring ...

Across two experiments, an adult informant presented 220 preschoolers (34–71 months of age) with either a correct claim or an incorrect claim about how to activate a music box by using one of two toy figures. Children were ...

Animacy hierarchies conventionally descend from subjectivity and integrated animacy down towards insensate or dead matter. John Williams’ 1965 novel Stoner upends these hierarchies, positing aestheticized inanimacy as an ...

Objectives The primary aim was to examine how event-related potentials (ERPs) and mismatch negativity (MMN) change and develop over time among children with hearing loss (HL) using hearing aids (HAs) or cochlear implants ...

This study explored whether there were long‐term hearing and vestibular outcome differences between five pairs of identical twins who had been infected with the congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection before birth. Data ...

This cross-linguistic study investigated the impact of spelling errors on reading behavior in five languages (Chinese, English, Finnish, Greek, and Hebrew). Learning theories predict that correct and incorrect spelling ...

Samandrag Etter kvart som samtalen tek over for leiken, frå ti til tolv-årsalderen og oppover, er det ein sosial realitet at dei som skal delta må ha ei viss grad av kommunikativ kompetanse (Grønlie, 2005). Føremålet med ...

Masterprosjektet er skrevet i samarbeid med forskningsprosjektet Evaluering av Funksjonell Familie Terapi (FFT) gjennomført og fundert av Nasjonalt utviklingssenter for barn og unge (NUBU). Studien benytter inntaksdata ...

Bakgrunn og formål The Second Language Learners Plus Intervention (SL+-prosjektet) skal utvikle og undersøke virkningen av et digitalt språktiltak for tospråklige fireåringer med svake norskferdigheter som går i norske ...

The statistical decrease in work participation amongst people with mild intellectual disabilities (ID) in the Norwegian workforce appears to draw a picture of a society in which fewer can acquire the necessary skills to ...

Introduction Over the past decade there has been a marked growth in the use of linked population administrative data for child protection research. This is the first systematic review of studies to report on research ...

Bakgrunn: Antall flerspråklige barn i norske barnehager har økt betydelig siden tusenårsskiftet. En del av disse barna vil ha begrensede vokabularferdigheter på norsk når de starter på skolen. Tidlige og effektive ...

Alle barn, uavhengig av funksjonsnivå, har rett på å bli møtt med et likeverdig og tilpasset tilbud i barnehagen. I Norge fødes det årlig ca. 60 000 barn. Av disse har 60-120 et hørselstap av ulik grad. Et hørselstap vil ...

Den psykiske helsen til gutter og menn er i større grad enn før et fokusområde både i forskningen og i mediene, og det ytres en bekymring for sen oppdaging og få eller lite tilpassede tiltak rettet mot psykiske vansker hos ...

Problemstilling: Hvordan vurderer rådsøkere kvaliteten på hjelpen de får av et konsultasjonsteam ved Statens barnehus når de er bekymret for seksuelle overgrep mot barn? Metode: Problemstillingen etterspør subjektive ...

Abstract The use of dramatization as teaching/learning methodology, useful for the improvement of social, emotional, creative skills, and for the acquisition of knowledge on subject matters such as history, is an established ...

Local government mergers are an important policy issue in many countries, yet empirical evidence of the effects of merging and of local government size on the production and quality of local public services is scarce. We ...

Sammendrag Tittelen «Å møte alle på forskjellig måte» stammer fra et utsagn fra intervjuene. En kvalitativ studie om hvordan logopeder jobber med sangere etter kirurgisk fjerning av stemmeknuter. Målet med oppgaven var å ...

Utviklingen av språket er noe som skjer helt naturlig for de fleste barna, uten at det må tilrettelegges særskilt for det. Imidlertid er det en del individer som har mindre eller større utfordringer i sin kommunikasjon, ...

Formål og problemstilling: Formålet med denne studien er å få økt kunnskap og forståelse om hvilke tilretteleggingsmuligheter lærere selv opplever de har i møte med elever som har blitt utsatt for seksuelle overgrep. Vi ...

We examined the concurrent relationship between narrative skills (the Renfrew Bus Story Test) and core language measures (vocabulary, grammar and verbal memory) at age 4 and the longitudinal relationship between core ...

Denne masteroppgaven vil ta for seg fem læreres erfaringer og kunnskaper rundt det å håndtere mobbing av hørselshemmede elever i ungdomsskolen. Hensikten med undersøkelsen har først og fremst vært å finne ut hvordan lærere ...

Intervention effects on moderate and severe problem behavior in and outside the classroom context, on classroom climate and inclusion, and on perceived collective efficacy, self-efficacy, and disciplinary practices among ...

Min interesse for mennesker med autismespekterforstyrrelser har utviklet seg gjennom møter med mennesker i arbeidssammenheng og som student. På bakgrunn av dette, ønsket jeg å undersøke denne problemstillingen: «Hvilken ...

The present study (a) addressed difficulties in speech fluency in children with Down syndrome and typically developing children at a similar non-verbal level and (b) examined the association between difficulties with speech ...

Formål og problemstilling: Formålet med denne studien er å få økt kunnskap og forståelse om hvilke tilretteleggingsmuligheter lærere selv opplever de har i møte med elever som har blitt utsatt for seksuelle overgrep. Vi ...

Denne artikkelbaserte masteroppgaven starter med en kappe som berører teoretiske aspekter og metodologiske valg i forbindelse med en studie av sosioøkonomisk status (SES), familieprosesser og antisosial atferd blant ungdom ...

Superheroes are often disabled, either literally or metaphorically. Their exceptional powers and abilities may be balanced by weakness in order to engender audience sympathy or identification, or to provide a source of ...

This article-based master’s thesis is organized in two parts, beginning with an extended summary (“kappen”), describing the theoretical framework and methodological considerations. Following is the draft for the article ...

Orthographic learning is the topic of many recent studies about reading, but much is still unknown about conditions that affect orthographic learning and their influence on reading fluency development over time. This study ...

Bakgrunn og formål: Det foreligger lite forskning om overgrepsutsatte barn og unge fra krysskulturelle miljøer, og at de sjeldnere fanges opp av hjelpeapparatet (Redd barna, 2015, s. 9). Formålet med denne masteroppgaven ...

Problemstilling: Temaet for dette prosjektet har vært læreres opplevelser med inkludering av elever som viser innagerende atferd. Det overordnede formålet var å undersøke hvordan kontaktlærere på barnetrinnet opplever ...