Browsing FACULTY OF EDUCATION by Subject "Adolescent"

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The effects of teacher professional development on rural students’ lexical inferencing skills

Ambrose, Laura M.; Collins, Ginger G.; Goforth, Anisa N. (Sage, 2016)

Rural students are at risk for vocabulary underdevelopment and often have less access to educational resources. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effectiveness of an Internet-based Speech/Language ...
School life following acquired brain injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiences of adolescents, their parents and teachers in the Irish context

Lane, Liz (2023-09-29)

Aims: Research on acquired brain injury (ABI) has acknowledged the importance of environmental factors in the rehabilitation process. Given that adolescents spend a large proportion of their time in the school setting, ...
Worldwide trends in children’s and adolescents’ body mass index, underweight, overweight and obesity, in comparison with adults, from 1975 to 2016: A pooled analysis of 2,416 population-based measurement studies with 128.9 million participants (Pre-published version)

Murtagh, Elaine; NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) (Elsevier, 2017)

Background: Being underweight as well as overweight and obese in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body ...