[NIFL-HEALTH:2456] Fwd: Informed Consent

From: Harold Bursztajn (harold_bursztajn@hms.harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 16:27:14 EDT


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Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:2456] Fwd: Informed Consent
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Please send replies to Robin Paul.

Yours truly,

Harold J. Bursztajn, MD

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>To: harold_bursztajn@hms.harvard.edu, pillingw@lynx.neu.edu, 
>robindra3@hotmail.com, Rob-Hamm@ouhsc.edu
>Subject: Informed Consent Project
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>Dear Dr. Bursztajn and Dr. Hamm,
>
>    About the informed consent project:  Do you think that schools for the 
> deaf may have scales for oral comprehension?
>
>I've included an article here that outines what it means to have oral 
>comprehension:
>
>PBS/Mississippi State University Videoconference
>(c) 1994 Langford International, Inc.
>
>
>Comprehension
>(Understand)
>Ability to understand or grasp the meaning of what is being communicated 
>and make use of the idea without relating it to other ideas or materials 
>or seeing its fullest meaning.  May involve translation, interpretation, 
>or extrapolation.
>
>
>How do I know I am at this level?
>
>This level requires knowledge.  I comprehend and understand what is being 
>communicated, and make use of the ideas without relating them to other 
>ideas or material.  I may not yet understand the fullest meaning.  Do I 
>understnad what others are discussing concerning this idea?
>What do I do at this level?
>I explain the idea or theory either in written or oral form.  I translate 
>information into my own words.  I can make an example and demonstrate 
>learning.  I can interpret what the teacher is saying or what is being 
>communicated.  I can do textbook assignments.  I can recognize and extract 
>information.
>How will the instructor know I am at this level?
>The teacher will often ask questions or give tests that can be answered by 
>merely restating or reorganizing material isn a rather literal (clearly 
>stating the facts or primary meaning of the material) manner to show that 
>I understand the essential meaning (e.g. "Give the ideas in your own words.").
>What does the instructor do at this level?
>The instructor demonstrates, listens, quetions, compares, contrasts, and 
>examines the information and the student's knowledge of it.
>What are typical ways I can demonstrate my own comprehension and 
>understanding?
>Give an example...
>What is the most important idea?
>What will probably happen?
>What caused this?
>Compare.  (What things are the same?)
>Contrast.  (What things are different?)
>Why did you say that?
>Give the idea in your own words.
>Do I understand the terminology?
>Process verbs:  restate, describe, explain, identify, report, tell, 
>discuss, recognize, express, locate, review.
>
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Yours very truly,

Harold J. Bursztajn, M.D.
Harvard Medical School      Associate Professor of Psychiatry,  co-Director 
Program in Psychiatry & the Law
Phone:  (617) 492-8366  Fax: (617) 441-3195     Web page: 
http://www.forensic-psych.com



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