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Dyslexia and the Life Course

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2003
The life stories of adults diagnosed with dyslexia as children were examined, with emphasis on the related emotional experiences. The life story method of narrative analysis was used to compare and analyze the accounts of 12 participants who were interviewed extensively.
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Life Course

2011
Sociology of the life course is a sophisticated theoretical paradigm designed to understand human lives. Four key assumptions guide life course scholars’ theoretical and empirical work: (1) lives are embedded in and shaped by historical context; (2) individuals construct their own lives through their choices and actions, yet within the constraints of ...
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The Life Course

2018
The life course can provide the foundation to understand and integrate important contextual and individual factors influencing the health and healthcare of chronically ill patients. Life course principles frame human lives as embedded in relationships with significant others and consider a holistic understanding of lives over time and across changing ...
Timothy P. Daaleman, John S. Preisser
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Time over the Life Course: preferences, Options and Life Course Policy [PDF]

open access: possibleTijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, 2004
This article has a twofold objective and addresses two central questions. Is there a gap between the preferences for and availability of various ways to make working patterns more flexible over the life course? What is the role of life course policy (LCP) in narrowing this gap?
Loek Groot, Koen Breedveld
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The Perceptual Presence of the Life Course

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1988
Despite the recent popularity of the term, the degree to which the “life course” as such is experienced in everyday life is not clear. Explorations of this question have not been very satisfying because they tend to either eliminate biographical time (as in survey research) or assume its presence (as with clinical, biographical, and life historical ...
D L, Redfoot, K W, Back
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Law through the Life Course

2021
This book is the first to explore the interactions of the law with the life course in order to understand the complex life journey as a whole. Jonathan Herring reveals how the law privileges 'middle age' to the detriment of the whole life story and explains why an understanding of the life course is important for lawyers.
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A life course of adiposity and dementia

European Journal of Pharmacology, 2008
Adiposity, commonly measured as body mass index (BMI), may influence or be influenced by brain structures and functions involved in dementia processes. Adipose tissue changes in degree and intensity over the lifespan, and has been shown to influence brain development in relationship to early and late measures of cognitive function, intelligence, and ...
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The Life Course as Developmental Theory

Child Development, 1998
Abstract The pioneering longitudinal studies of child development (all launched in the 1920s and 1930s) were extended well beyond childhood. Indeed, they eventually followed their young study members up to the middle years and later life.
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Welfare states and the life course

2015
In recent years there has been an increased interest in understanding the welfare state from a life course approach. On the one hand, the welfare state through its laws, policies, and institutions, shapes and structures the life course. The welfare state influences both the timing of life course events, such as the age at which people marry or have ...
Yerkes, Mara A.   +2 more
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The Life Course of Children with Schizophrenia

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973
The background, hereditary data, history of organic stress, intellectual development, types of treatment received, and outcome are described for 100 children diagnosed as schizophrenics at Bellevue Hospital from 1935 to 1952. The author discusses the effects of various factors on the course of schizophrenia.
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