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Wallace, Robyn A.; Beange, Helen – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
This article presents the authors' response to the invited commentaries on their paper (Wallace and Beange, 2008). On the point of "specialism", the authors emphasise a fundamental premise of their argument: the proposed "specialist" hospital-based service is inherently enmeshed within generic services at the hospital level,…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Retardation, Hospitals, Health Personnel
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Kerr, Michael – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
This commentary discusses whether a sufficient case has been made for specialism in hospital services as a viable alternative to existing generic services. The impact of developments in specialist care such as those outlined by Robyn A. Wallace and Helen Beange should be assessed as a means of reducing inequality. In particular, model services…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Retardation, Hospitals, Health Personnel
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O'Hara, David – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
In this article, the author comments on the paper "On the need for a specialist service within the generic hospital setting" (Wallace & Beange, 2008), which raises critical issues regarding effective models of healthcare delivery for individuals with intellectual disability (ID), particularly within a hospital setting (but not…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Retardation, Hospitals, Health Personnel
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Wallace, Robyn A.; Beange, Helen – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
Although the presence of intellectual disability (ID) per se is not usually regarded as a health problem, the biopsychosocial implications of cognitive impairment contribute to the vulnerability of adult patients with ID in any healthcare system. The adult patient with ID differs from a patient in the general population in terms of health…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Retardation, Hospitals, Health Personnel
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Peisah, Carmelle; Snowdon, John; Kril, Jillian; Rodriguez, Michael – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2007
The neuropathological correlates of suicide in older persons have received little research attention. Our recent study of elderly suicide victims from an Australian forensic medicine department (n = 143), unlike a previous case-control study, did not find an increased prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in older persons who committed suicide…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Dementia, Suicide, Pathology
LeLeu, K. L.; Young, M. A. – South Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1973
Describes the only commercial establishment involved in biological control in Australia. The wasp Aphitis melinus, which parasitizes the insect Red Scale, is bred in large numbers and released in the citrus groves where Red Scale is causing damage to the fruit. (JR)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Biology, Disease Control, Entomology
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Siegal, Michael – Child Development, 1988
Findings of three experiments indicated that preschool children have a more substantial knowledge of contagion and contamination than has been estimated previously. Results are discussed in terms of children's ability to understand causal relations. (RH)
Descriptors: Accidents, Age Differences, Communicable Diseases, Comprehension
Kalinowski, Michael – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2007
This article features StarBright Learning Exchange, a program that provides a cross-cultural exchange between Australian and South African early childhood educators. The program was originated when its president, Carol Allen, and her colleague, Karen Williams, decided that they could no longer sit by and watch the unfolding social catastrophe that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Young Children, Early Childhood Education
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Jensen, Angela M.; Chenery, Helen J.; Copland, David A. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2006
The lexical-semantic and syntactic abilities of a group of individuals with chronic nonthalamic subcortical (NS) lesions following stroke (n=6) were investigated using the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) picture description task [Kertesz, A. (1982). "The Western aphasia battery." New York: Grune and Stratton] and compared with those of a…
Descriptors: Diseases, Aphasia, Semantics, Syntax
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Allan, Brent; Leonard, William – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
The best HIV prevention programs--those that effect change on a multiplicity of levels by changing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors and that are sustained over time--are also those that place HIV-positive people at the center of program design, implementation, and evaluation.
Descriptors: Program Design, Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Communicable Diseases
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Viney, Linda L. – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1985
Compared the responses of 496 severely ill adults and 297 healthy persons concerning the threat of loss of life or bodily integrity. Results indicated that ill people expressed more concern with both types of threat. Each type of loss was associated with a different set of psychological states. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adults, Body Image, Death, Diseases
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Mistler, Grant; Kirkwood, Kristie; Potter, Emily; Cashin, Andrew – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2008
The 2005-2008 Australian National Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy identifies young people as a key target group in need of sexual health education, screening and management. For young people who are in contact with the New South Wales (NSW) juvenile justice system, a dire need for remedial sexual health education exists. NSW young…
Descriptors: Health Services, Health Education, Sex Education, Antisocial Behavior
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Hird, Kathryn; Hennessey, Neville W. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
This study examined the relative benefit of three interventions (i.e. physiological, behavioural, and pragmatic) designed to facilitate speech recognition software use. Participants were 15 adults with dysarthria associated with a variety of aetiological conditions, including cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, and motor neuron disease. Results…
Descriptors: Diseases, Cerebral Palsy, Speech Improvement, Speech Language Pathology
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Maindonald, John; Richardson, Alice M. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2004
On her death in 1910, Florence Nightingale left a vast collection of reports, letters, notes and other written material. There are numerous publications that make use of this material, often highlighting Florence's attitude to a particular issue. In this paper we gather a set of quotations and construct a dialogue with Florence Nightingale on the…
Descriptors: History, Public Health, Medicine, Mathematics
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Dockett, Sue; Mason, Terry; Perry, Bob – Childhood Education, 2006
Aboriginal people have been described as the most educationally disadvantaged group of people within Australia. Their participation rates at all levels of education are lower than those of non-Indigenous Australians. In an effort to enhance the learning and teaching of Aboriginal students, education systems are seeking appropriate strategies and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educationally Disadvantaged, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Populations
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