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AED’s are pricey.  They can save lives; however they are pricey.  The good news is that many companies hand out AED grants to help offset your costs.  This article will show you where to find an AED grant and how to qualify for it.

The good news (part 1) is that qualifying for an AED grant is not difficult…if you know what grant organizations want to hear. 

You see, most companies will ask for a(n)

- Organization Name
- Grant Application Contact Name
- Contact Phone Number
- Address
- Contact Email Address

And they’ll require some routine info concerning the number of AEDs you want and what protocols your organization currently uses in the event of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA).

But get this:  surprisingly, dozens of organizations aren’t concerned about how many defibrillators you want.  Whether you want 5 or 10 defibrillators–or only one–they don’t care. 

No organization or need is too little.  Believe it or not, I heard one donor say that the most important criterion for him (in evaluating AED grant applications) is the size and type of the organization.  His #1 aim is to place his money where he felt it would be of most use.

So, you see donors *favor* smaller organizations like…

- Schools
- Churches
- Fire and Police Departments
- Dental Offices
- Community Centers
- City and County Municipalities
- Volunteer Groups
- Sporting Organizations
- and even Individuals 
    

The good news (part 2), is that AED grants are not hard to get your hands on…if you know where to look and how to search.

(If you have not already) search the internet using terms like “AED Grants,” “Defibrillator Grants,” or “AED Sales.”  Many organizations maintain websites with online applications and the forms take minutes to fill out. 

Best of all, a few donors will process your application in as little as 7 days and offer discounts of up to 20% off.

So, if you or somebody you know would benefit from an AED grant, don’t wait.  Start the application process now.  Qualifying might be easier than you know.     

To apply today, visit our site at http://www.aed-grants.org

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Test that tries to measure intrinsic intellectual power, rather than developed ability.

It is now widely thought that a child’s results in an iq test can be affected by it’s environment, background, as well as teaching.

There is widespread questions about the accuracy and reliability of iq tests, but they are still commonly used as a diagnostic tool when children display learning problems.

The French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857–1911) devised the first intelligence test in 1905.

The IQ (from the German Intelligenz-Quotient), was coined by the German psychologist William Stern in 1912 as a proposed method of scoring early modern children’s intelligence tests.

It is calculated according to the formula: IQ = MA/CA x 100 in which MA is ‘mental age’ (the age at which an average child is able to perform given tasks) and CA is ‘chronological age’, hence an average person has an IQ of 100 ± 10.

Although the term “IQ” is still in common use, the scoring of modern IQ tests such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale is now based on a projection of the subject’s measured rank on the Gaussian bell curve with a center value (average IQ) of 100, and a standard deviation of 15, although different tests may have different standard deviations.

Intelligence tests were first used on a large scale in the USA in 1917 during World War I for two million drafted men, and their subsequent widespread use for education and employment decisions has provoked protests from minority groups who contend the tests are culturally biased and discriminatory.

‘Sight and sound’ intelligence tests, developed by Christopher Brand in 1981, avoid cultural bias and the pitfalls of improvement by practice. Subjects are shown a series of lines being flashed on a screen at increasing speed, and are asked to identify in each case the shorter of a pair; and when two notes are relayed over headphones, they are asked to identify which is the higher. There is a close correlation between these results and other intelligence test scores.

IQ scores have been shown to be associated with such factors as morbidity and fatality rate, parental social status, and to a substantive degree, parental IQ. While its hereditary pattern has been inquired for nearly a century, controversy remains as to how much is inheritable, and the mechanisms of inheritance are still a subject to some .

IQ scores are used in many settings: as predictors of educational accomplishment or special needs, by social scientists who study the distribution of IQ scores in populations and the relationships between IQ score and other variables, and as predictors of job performance and income.

The average IQ scores for many populations have been rising at an average rate of three points per decade since the early 20th century with most of the growth in the lower half of the IQ range: a phenomenon called the Flynn effect. It is disputed whether these changes in scores reflect real changes in intellectual abilities, or merely problems with past or present testing methods.

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