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A.D.A.M. "Autism." Google Health. Google. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. . - This site just gives the basic medical diagnosis of Autism. I think in order to explain Autism's effects on literacy (or whatever you're doing), you need to first explain generally what Autism is. That way, you have a base on which to form your argument. If the person reading your paper has no prior knowledge of Autism, then they will be completely in the dark while reading it. The site gives a general medical overview of Autism's causes, symptoms, and treatments.

Banks, James A. "Educating Global Citizens in a Diverse World." New Horizons for Learning. Web. 16 Nov. 2010. This text discusses all the necessary reasons to become involved with global and multicultural education and obtain knowledge from the different cultures, languages, religions and racial and ethnic groups. Because of the growth of cultures throughout the world, citizenship education needs to be changed in order to educate students how to function in today's interdependent society and global culture. Student's need the knowledge, attitudes and skills required to function in their cultural communities.

Palmer, Lance, et al. "IMPROVING FINANCIAL AWARENESS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: ASSESSMENT OF A FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT." College Student Journal 44.3 (2010): 659-676. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The article served as a study that was done on college students. It was an intervention that mainly forced college students to track just how they spent their money. The purpose of the experiment was to bring awareness to the students at the end to show them what possible mistakes, or poor expenditures they had made. The study showed that when students tracked how they spent their money, they universally increased their spending knowledge, and made very few careless purchases. When these students actually tracked how they spent their money the study showed that they realized the values that their parents and guardians had taught them.

"American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment Spring 2008 Reference Group Data Report (Abridged): The American College Health Association." Journal of American College Health 57.5 (Mar/Apr2009): 477-88. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article is about a nation survey given to college students about their health. the survey evaluated the students health, their knowledge, risks, and effects on academic performance.

Higgs, Colin. "Physical Literacy -- Two Approaches, One Concept." Physical & Health Education Journal 76.1 (2010): 6-7. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. Physical literacy is also very important in other aspects. The author of this article looks at physical literacy both academically and practically. It gives the definition of physical literacy as well. Physical literacy is important for students to be knowledgeable about physical education and activity. Physical activity becomes safer and more fun with the proper knowledge and awareness.

Hayes, Elisabeth, and Jennifer Hopkins. "Gender and Literacy Learning: Implications for Research in Adult Literacy Education." (1996): ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article is also a research article about adult literacy. It touches base on gender roles as it applies to literacy. It establishes that the lack of focus on gender roles and literacy effects the success in that area of knowledge. It states that the development between women and men is different pertaining to literacy, menaing it is an unequal development. Lack of attention on this issue and resistence to accept this social role causes problems when learning about writing.

Supiano, Beckie. "For Students, the New Kind of Literacy Is Financial College offer programs in managing money. (Cover story)." Chronicle of Higher Education 55.2 (2008): A1-A38. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This is an article that was the cover story. It was based on schools such as Texas Tech that have actual course at their institution that is based upon financial literacy and the knowledge of spending one's own money. Texas Tech is one of many schools that have a class like this one. The class in itself teaches students proper spending techniques. The purpose of the class is to teach students how to budget money, save when the time is right, and to buy only things or items that they can afford.

Mandell, Lewis, and Linda Schmid Klein. "The Impact of Financial Literacy Education on Subsequent Financial Behavior." Financial Counseling & Planning 20.1 (2009): 15-24. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. This article will be fantastic as a counter argument to my paper. Every good paper needs some form of argument against to make the argument for even stronger. The journal is a study based on 79 high school students. These students in years prior had completed a course that dealt with managing their finances. The study showed that these kids were no smarter, or held any knowledge that other students didn't regarding financial literacy and spending. I thought that this journal was great because it showed that it might not even be the education that lead to poor spending. Also the students who took the course even noted that they did not spend their money in the right ways.

Brown, Abbie, and van Tryon Slagter. "Twenty-First Century Literacy: A Matter of Scale from Micro to Mega." Clearing House 83.6 (2010): 235-8. Print. PARKER, MEGAN R., et al. "Relationship of College Students' Patriotism to use of Specific New Sources and Knowledge of Current Political Events." Journal of Political & Military Sociology 37.2 (2009): 205-26. Print. This article describes the new approaches in teaching students literacy habits in an ever changing society with new technolgies.

Hill, Liam, et al. "Exercising attention within the classroom." Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 52.10 (2010): 929-934. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 20 Nov. 2010. This articles attempts to determine whether or not having a daily exercise will increase a students knowledge during school hours. It involves younger students being tested to find out if there is a direct link to the two. Exercising has a way of making people have more energy but for others less. This articles tells that exactly.

The purpose of this study was to assess the health literacy levels, and the potential importance of healthy literacy, of college students. Ickes, Melinda J., and Randall Cottrell. "Health Literacy in College Students." Journal of American College Health 58.5 (2010): 491-498. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010.

Ickes, Melinda, Randall Cottrell. "Health Literacy in College Students." Journal of American College Health 58.5 (Mar/Apr2010): 491-8. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article is about a study done on college students to test their health literacy. The study tested students ability to recognize and understand health terms and labels.

Nemeth, Dezso, et al. "Learning in Autism: Implicitly Superb." PLoS ONE 7 (2010): 1-7. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. Autistic people have memory and learning impairments, but recently researchers have studied how implicit learning in ASD is affected as well. ASD stands for Autism Spectrum Disorder, which includes social, motor, and communicative impairments. Implicit learning is the developing of a skill or information without consciousness to what was learned. Neurocognitive (thought) studies, and implicit cognition (unconcious influences such as knowledge) studies have received less attention. Studies have shown that children with Asberger's syndrome have better cognitive abilities that children with normal autism. Autistic children are more likely to forget the skills they have learned over the long term, but can use the results of implicit learning over a long period of time. ASD children compared to controlled show similar learning patterns in specific and general skill learning.

Guerin, Stephen H. "Internationalizing the Curriculum: Improving Learning Through International Education: Preparing Students for Success in a Global Society." Community College Journal of Research & Practice 33.8 (2009): 611-614. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article discusses the importance of internationalization of curriculum and and its role in preparing students for a global and multicultural society. With recent events it is even more pressing that Americans today have an understanding of peoples of different cultures. Motlow State Community College (MSCC) recognizes this topic of discussion and survey's show that in its courses only 6% of its courses contain significant international content. International education especially at the college level has taken on a new importance. This article argues that despite the student's major, they should be exposed to multicultural education and this knowledge which will enhance a student's success in the global environment of the future.

Mandigo, James, et al. "Physical Literacy for Educators." Physical & Health Education Journal 75.3 (2009): 27-30. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. As a teacher, literacy is obviously a major part of all operations. Physical literacy comes in to play on a daily basis for almost all educators. This article explains the importance of literacy when it comes to sports. Understanding a sporting situation is very important for students when it comes to physical education. The knowledge of physical literacy is very important for physical activity and education in general.

Gaad, Eman. "The social and educational impacts of the first national Down Syndrome support group in the UAE." Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs 6.3 (2006), 134-142. This is an article about a study done on UAE's first Down syndrome support group. The goal of the group was to correct peoples thoughts on persons with Down syndrome. They found that the group was very beneficial, especially for children. People gained knowledge on Down syndrome and those with Down syndrom built their social skills. It also helped to promote acceptance.

Sullivan, Philip J., Tammy Whitaker-Campbell, and Mike MacKay. "Physical Literacy in Coaching Education Materials: A Case Study of Canada Basketball." Physical & Health Education Journal 76.1 (2010): 32-35. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. In terms of coaching, there are many different qualities that lead to success. This article connects physical literacy with coaching education. A full understanding of physical literacy is needed to be successful in coaching. Literacy is very important in many different aspects of sport. Knowledge about physical literacy is very important in sports and athletic training.

William Badke. "International students: information literacy or academic literacy?" Academic Exchange Quarterly, Dec 22, 2002. Web. This article looks at how international students may not actually be getting the education they may have thought they are bargaining for. He says yes, they receive an English education which may have been tougher to come by in their country, thereby becoming more literate, while in effect they do not actually gain any valuable academic literacy, comparable to what may have been available in their country of origin. He states that in effect these students are caught between an educational gap in which they face more language challenges than they do actual academic challenges, and as such spend most of their education just trying to get over the language barrier hump, while sacrificing academia knowledge they would have otherwise been gaining.

Squellati, Robin. "Health Literacy: Understanding Basic Information." Creative Nursing 16.3 (2010): 110-114. Web. 24 Nov 2010. This article is about the concern of health literacy in Americans today. It tells of the importance of being able to obtain, processm and understand basic health information. Many of the healthcare providers out there are nurses, and, according to this article, they can help decrease the amount of patients with low health literacy. This article also states that health literacy can have an impact on an idividuals health status and the cost of health care in general. There is a big need for nurses to educate their patients about their health and health literacy in general.

"Health Literacy -> Development and Administration." National Assessment of Adult Literacy. National Center for Education Statistics. Web. 5 December 2010. This website has information regarding the national assesment of health literacy. It has the scoring and results from the tests. It also gives an accurate definition of what health literacy is.

Vinci, D.M. "Effective nutrition support programs for college athletes. / Programmes efficace d'assistance et de conseil en nutrition pour les athletes universitaires." International Journal of Sport Nutrition 8.3 (1998): 308-320. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. EBSCO. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. This article is about the Husky Sport Nutrition Program at the University of Washington. This program is offered to the college athletes at the university. The program offers life skills assistance to student-athletes. In addition, the program offers a sports nutritionist who is an educator, counselor, and administrator for the athletes. This provides athletes with accurate information on healthy eating behaviors for optimal performance. Furthermore, the program offers a multidisciplinary team to prevent and treat eating disorders.