Creating a Healthy College Lifestyle

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Chantelle Fowler and Dr. Stefinee Pinnegar, Educational Foundations In 2000, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released Healthy People 2010. This document sets forth 476 national objectives for bettering the health of the people of the United States. These then lead to two overall goals of 1) increasing the quality and years of […]

Intelligence and Social Behaviors of Children with Language Impairment

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Melanie Cobabe and Dr. Martin Fujiki, Communication Disorders Teachers and speech pathologists have noted that children with Language Impairment (LI) frequently struggle in social interactions when compared with their typical peers. They have difficulty making friends, entering on-going interactions, and are often viewed negatively by others in their own age group. The purpose of this […]

SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT

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Michelle H. Hutchings and Dr. Martin Fujiki, Speech and Language Pathology Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a well documented disability among many schoolaged children. Children with SLI exhibit “significant limitations in language functioning that cannot be attributed to deficits in hearing, oral structure and function, or general intelligence” (Leonard, 1987, p. 1). SLI results in […]

Encouraging Family Literacy in Spanish-Speaking Homes

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Christian Peña and Professor Brad Wilcox, Teacher Education In the fall of 2008, I founded a service program called Conexiones. This service program seeks to organize and send Brigham Young University students into the homes of local Latino families to encourage literacy by reading with the children and parents. The program provides no curriculum, but relies heavily […]

English Article Acquisition of Native Russian Speakers

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Jacob Burdis and Professor Ray Graham – Education For decades, researchers have explored various aspects of the development or morphology in second language learners of English. Undoubtedly, one of the most popular models describing this development is the natural order hypothesis. Stephen Krashen (1977) presents an average morphological order of acquisition for English where learners, “acquiring […]

COSTA RICA’S BORDER PEOPLE: LIVING ON THE FRINGES OF TWO SOCIETIES

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Ann Marie Hinckley and Dr. David P. Crandall The Nicaraguan Revolution ended nearly fifteen years ago, however, the political, economic, and cultural effects resulting from the war continue. These effects are keenly felt in the border regions of Costa Rica. Border regions are frequently turbulent because within them 70% of the world’s smallest wars are […]

Multicultural Counseling Issues: Ethnic Groups’ Attitudes Towards Mental Illness

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Rose Hirt and Dr. Timothy B. Smith, Counseling Psychology and Special Education In the world of counseling, there are many issues that arise due to differences between cultures. These differences are particularly apparent in how different cultural groups view mental illness. There have been studies done on this topic, but the literature must be compiled […]

Meta-Analysis of Client-Therapist Ethnic Matching: Client Outcomes

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Serena Bohn and Dr. Timothy B. Smith, Counseling Psychology and Special Education The purpose of this research was to conduct a meta-analysis of past and current psychological studies in order to assess what trends have occurred within the field of multi-cultural psychology in regards to the effect on client outcomes through matching clients and therapists […]

Evaluating the Purpose and Effectiveness of the Standards for Teaching Television Production Curriculum in Utah High Schools

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Seth Warburton and Dr. Geoff Wright, TEE The purpose of this study was to compare Utah high school television production teaching practices and standards to industry television production standards and techniques. The intent of this study was to evaluate (a) if schools are teaching appropriate television production standards and techniques; (b) if the limited equipment […]

THE IMPACT OF EDUCATIONAL METHOD COURSES ON STUDENT TEACHING

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Gwyn C. Franson and Dr. Blaine Moore, Elementary Education Fall semester 1994, Brigham Young University Department of Elementary Education began its first Cohort program for the training of elementary school teachers. This program focuses on integrating traditional methods classes into a two semester field-based pre-service experience. It provides for the placement of university professors on […]