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TurnAbout RanchTurn-About Ranch
As a parent you are often challenged by outside influences that threaten your child's emotional and behavioral development. Imagine a place where old-time values such as honesty, respect, teamwork, and accountability are the standard. Turn-About Ranch is such a place. Teens thrive in the unique environment of this spirited working cow-and-horse ranch. As they get back to basics, they are challenged to examine their values and recognize how their poor choices have impacted their lives.

Turn-About Ranch features a hard-hitting, high-impact residential program works wonders with defiant teens where the experience of the ranch setting has a powerful real-world impact.

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Both Low-tech and High-tech Learning Tools Can Educate Teens

Educating teens with reading materials may work just as well as using movies and other audio-visual aids, according to a new study from Yale University.

Lead researcher Dr. Richard Antaya gave 101 teenagers educational materials in the form of either reading materials or computerized audio-visual presentations. Patients took tests after going over the materials and were re-tested one month later. While Dr. Antaya had posited that the audio-visual materials would be a better match in teaching the material to teens, both groups actually scored about the same.

This study appears in the Archives of Dermatology.

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