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Curran, Dorothyann; Kekewich, Mike; Foreman, Thomas – Research Ethics, 2019
It is becoming widely recognized that dissemination of research results to participants is an important action for the conclusion of a research study. Most research institutions have standardized consent documents or templates that they require their researchers to use. Consent forms are an ideal place to indicate that results of research will be…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Records (Forms), Foreign Countries, Research
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Loo, Joanne C. Y.; Boot, Erik; Corral, Maria; Bassett, Anne S. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: Many individuals with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers struggle to provide accurate and complete information to healthcare providers. Method: The present authors provided personal medical information cards (PMICs) containing contact and medical information to 52 Canadian adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, a genetic…
Descriptors: Adults, Congenital Impairments, Genetic Disorders, Intellectual Disability
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Labelle, Fannie; Béliveau, Marie-Julie; Jauvin, Karine; Akzam-Ouellette, Marc-Antoine – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2023
Intellectual impairments in preschoolers have been widely studied. A regularity that emerges is that children's intellectual impairments have an important impact on later adjustments in life. However, few studies have looked at the intellectual profiles of young psychiatric outpatients. This study aimed to describe the intelligence profile of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Referral, Intelligence Quotient, Intellectual Disability
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Maurel, Dominique; Zwarich, Natasha – Education for Information, 2021
Information governance provides a framework of accountability for the effective and efficient use of information to meet organizational objectives and compliance requirements. While information functions are often carried out by separate units that frequently work in silos, information governance is based on an interactive approach, taking into…
Descriptors: Governance, Accountability, Information Management, Power Structure
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Slavkov, Nikolay – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Canada is a country with a complex linguistic and cultural landscape characterized by two official languages (English and French), a steady influx of immigrants, and a number of aboriginal communities. Within this rich local context, and in a broader global environment where bilingualism and multilingualism are increasingly recognized as a norm…
Descriptors: Native Language, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism
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Eastwood, Terry – Education for Information, 2017
The author reflects on advances in academic professional education for archivists over the past 35 years, makes the case for autonomous master's degree programs in archival studies, and identifies some of the challenges archival education faces now and into the future.
Descriptors: Reflection, Foreign Countries, Archives, Information Management
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Douglas, Jennifer – Education for Information, 2017
In 2001, Catherine Hobbs referred to silences around personal archives, suggesting that these types of archives were not given as much attention as organizational archives in the development of archival theory and methodology. The aims of this article are twofold: 1) to investigate the extent to which such silences exist in archival education…
Descriptors: Information Management, Archives, Information Science Education, Course Descriptions
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Azimi, Kousha; Modi, Miti; Hurlbut, Janice; Lunsky, Yona – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Despite the fact that adults with both intellectual disabilities (ID) and psychiatric disorders are at increased risk for physical health problems, few studies have described their medical concerns specifically. This study reports on the rates of physical health issues and completion of recommended health screenings among 78 adult outpatients with…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Mental Disorders, At Risk Persons, Comorbidity
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Milley, Peter – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
Educational administration is a rich domain of scholarship and practice, but one subject rarely discussed is its dark side. This study explored the question: What types of maladministration occur in schooling systems? The goal was to develop findings to inform existing prevention strategies. Focused on the Canadian context, data sources included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Administrator Behavior, Classification
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Slavkov, Nikolay – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2016
This article examines some of the challenges that the notion of a (monolingual) native speaker faces in a global context of increasing awareness that bilingualism and multilingualism are the norm rather than the exception. It also discusses the distinction between two child language acquisition environments, bilingual first language acquisition…
Descriptors: School Districts, Public Schools, Bilingualism, Multilingualism
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Verhaaff, Ashley; Scott, Hannah – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Objective: This study examined which individual factors predict mental health court diversion outcome among a sample of persons with mental illness participating in a postcharge diversion program. Method: The study employed secondary analysis of existing program records for 419 persons with mental illness in a court diversion program. Results:…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Individual Characteristics
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Rhodes, Anne E.; Boyle, Michael H.; Bethell, Jennifer; Wekerle, Christine; Tonmyr, Lil; Goodman, Deborah; Leslie, Bruce; Lam, Kelvin; Manion, Ian – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2013
Objectives: To identify factors associated with repeat emergency department (ED) presentations for suicide-related behaviors (SRB)--hereafter referred to as repetition--among children/youth to aid secondary prevention initiatives. To compare rates of repetition in children/youth with substantiated maltreatment requiring removal from their parental…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Prevention, Foreign Countries, Probability
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Poole, Wendy; Fallon, Gerald – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2015
This paper examines increasing privatisation of education in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Conceptually, the paper is informed by theories of privatisation and social justice; and methodologically, it uses policy analysis to examine documents and financial records obtained from government departments. The paper critically analyses…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, School Districts, Social Justice, Foreign Countries
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Lysaght, Rosemary; Sparring, Cynthia; Ouellette-Kuntz, Helene; Marshall, Carrie Anne – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2011
Background: Workplace safety is a concern in the employment of persons with intellectual disability, due to both real concerns for employee well-being, and the effect that negative perceptions of safety risk can have on hiring. Method: This study involved a retrospective analysis of workplace insurance claim records for workers with and without…
Descriptors: Safety, Mental Retardation, Personnel Selection, Injuries
Villegas, Malia Maya – ProQuest LLC, 2010
With this thesis, I present a case study of the effort to graduate 500 "Maori" doctorates in five years in New Zealand in order to advance our understanding of a successful Indigenous higher education initiative. By paying careful attention to contextual factors, I describe the theoretical and practical significance of this effort and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Higher Education, Participant Observation, Alaska Natives
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