In many districts, there are middle-school orientation visits, and there is also a preliminary birds-and-bees talk.
These visits were conducted by one of the staff audiologists in the same quiet conference room in or near the audiology clinic as the group orientation visits.
Data from patients' initial consultations with the surgeon, an intermediate assessment, and then again at patients' preoperative orientation visits contributed to the reliability analysis.
Eligible participants were scheduled for in-person baseline orientation visits during which the study was further described, written consent was obtained, eligibility was finalized, and baseline measures were completed.
For example, two studies using large-scale nationally representative samples in the United States found that more school transition practices focused on children and families (e.g., parent orientations, visits to the school) were related to prosocial skills in kindergarten (Cook and Coley 2017), and higher academic skills in the first year of school (Schulting et al. 2005).
We've gone from the simplicity of the digital age, defined as the web and the task orientation of visiting a website to "do something", to the complexity of the always-on, always-networked connected age, where every one of us carries a multitude of digital devices that are constantly connected to an ever-increasing array of digital services.
I called a couple of times a day — day after day after day — and the calls were not returned, by company people in Omaha who had earlier given me a week of invaluable orientation, including visits to the Union Pacific rail yard in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and to "the bunker," an impregnable building in Omaha where dispatchers control everything that is happening on nineteen thousand miles of track.
Occassions include parent weekend, orientation, parents visiting, and graduation.
The three students who expressed interest attended a weekend orientation program visiting all three prospective locations, meeting with their prospective GP supervisors, as well as the rural teaching hospital.
