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Vaccarino, Franco; Vaccarino, Zandra; Armstrong, Duncan; Borkin, Edward; Hewitt, Alexandra; Oswin, Andrew; Quick, Caroline; Smith, Erin; Glew, Averill – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: Individuals with Down syndrome are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 because they are recognised as significantly immunocompromised. Yet their voices regarding their lived experiences of pandemic lockdowns have not been sought or heard. Aim: This study aims to describe the lived experiences of people with Down syndrome during the…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, COVID-19, Pandemics, At Risk Persons
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Annericke Leonard; Tatiana Tairi; Neville M. Blampied – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
Surf therapy programs have been successfully utilised with vulnerable populations worldwide. This study is the first to examine the effects of a surf therapy program on the psychosocial functioning of young men at high risk of adverse life outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand. A single-group pre-test post-test research design, with repeated measures…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Males, Aquatic Sports, Therapy
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Abdoola, Shabnam; Swanepoel, De Wet; Van Der Linde, Jeannie – Journal of Early Intervention, 2023
The Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS), PEDS: Developmental Milestones (PEDS: DM) and PEDS tools (i.e., the PEDS and PEDS:DM combined for use) are parent-reported screening tools frequently used to identify young children requiring early intervention. An ideal screening tool for all contexts would be brief, inexpensive with…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Identification, Child Development, Early Intervention
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Estellés, Marta; Romero, Noah; Tatebe, Jennifer; Mutch, Carol – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
In the last few decades, the word 'safety' has become silently but increasingly pervasive in educational policies and debates, gaining a new momentum with the pandemic. Our intention in this article is to problematise what is done in schools in the name of safety by delving into the safety policy discourses of a New Zealand school and the…
Descriptors: Females, Pacific Islanders, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Humpage, Louise; Fozdar, Farida; Marlowe, Jay; Hartley, Lisa – Research Ethics, 2019
'Vulnerability' is a key concept used to understand the ethical implications of conducting refugee-focused research. This case study illustrates the need to follow Luna's (2009) call for a shift from a 'labels' to a 'layers' approach to vulnerability by analysing how two university ethics committees responded to issues of informed consent in two…
Descriptors: Refugees, Ethics, Research, Research Methodology
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Conder, Jennifer Ann; Mirfin-Veitch, Brigit Frances – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
Background: Within Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ), disability policy is directed at increasing choices for disabled people. However, funding to individuals remains insufficient to address wider social inequities that exist. While people with learning disability enjoy the freedom of living independently, they can be at risk of poor health outcomes and…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Independent Living, Money Management
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Telfar Barnard, Lucy; Howden-Chapman, Philippa; Pierse, Nevil – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Background: Previous research has shown two-way associations between rental tenure, poorer housing quality, and health outcomes, but little research has looked at relative housing contributions to health outcomes. Aims: We investigated whether tenure and/or dwelling condition were associated with housing-sensitive hospitalizations and whether any…
Descriptors: Housing, Public Health, Time, Income
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Dutta, Mohan J.; Moana-Johnson, Gayle; Elers, Christine – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2020
In this essay, drawing on our ethnographic work at the "margins of the margins" in Aotearoa New Zealand, we depict the role of communicative pedagogy for radical democracy in sustaining spaces for community participation in pandemic response. Based on accounts offered by community advisory group members and observations of emergent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Cultural Influences
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Nicholson, Julie; Kuhl, Katie; Maniates, Helen; Lin, Betty; Bonetti, Sara – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
With the increasing acknowledgement of the benefits of early childhood education, there is a need to ask critical questions about whether ample leadership exists for guiding ambitious systemic change in the field. This review of leadership in early childhood educational contexts between 1995 and 2015 examines the epistemological assumptions…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Social Justice, Leadership Responsibility, Leadership Qualities
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Rosewall, Juliet K.; Gleaves, David H.; Latner, Janet D. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
Body dissatisfaction (BD) is a common experience among preadolescent girls and a robust risk factor and precursor to eating pathology (EP). Although the relationship between BD and EP has been well documented, there is less research exploring the factors that may make this relationship more or less pronounced. In the current study, we investigated…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Self Concept, Eating Disorders, Preadolescents
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Galvin, Alexandra; Davis, Georgina; Neumann, Denise; Underwood, Lisa; Peterson, Elizabeth R.; Morton, Susan M. B.; Waldie, Karen E. – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2020
A variety of antenatal risk factors have been established as being detrimental to a child's developing language ability. Our aim was to examine the relationship between exposure to cumulative risk (CR), including antenatal maternal, perinatal, and maternal health characteristics, and children's preschool language ability. Analyses were comprised…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Language Impairments, At Risk Persons, Language Skills
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Phillips, J. G.; Currie, J.; Ogeil, R. P.; Vaeau, F. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020
As health-related mobile apps have proliferated in recent years in USA and Australia, counsellor opinions were solicited to aid development of therapeutic apps. After being informed of the therapeutic potential of time and location-based reminders, 33 drug and alcohol counsellors from New Zealand and Australia answered an anonymous online survey.…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Psychotherapy, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Mckenzie, Sarah K.; Li, Cissy; Jenkin, Gabrielle; Collings, Sunny – Research Ethics, 2017
The impact on researchers of working with sensitive data is often not considered by ethics committees when approving research proposals. We conducted interviews with eight research assistants processing clinical notes on emergency department presentations for deliberate self-harm and suicide attempts during a suicide prevention trial. Common…
Descriptors: Researchers, Research, Suicide, Ethics
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Scott, Amy; McNeill, Brigid; van Bysterveldt, Anne – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
This study investigated the impact of an emergent literacy intervention on the language quality and quantity used during shared reading interactions of 14 teenage mothers (M = 19;9, SD = 1;3) and their young children (M = 2;1, SD = 0;8). Mothers participated in a seven-week emergent literacy intervention focused on a range of behaviours they could…
Descriptors: Mothers, Early Parenthood, Program Effectiveness, Emergent Literacy
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Zhang, Kaili C. – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2018
Historically, Maori children in New Zealand have been consistently over-represented in negative social statistics. To describe the current status of New Zealand's education and services for at-risk Maori children and their families, this article highlights the country's overall structure of special education and services, as well as unique…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pacific Islanders, Child Welfare, Resilience (Psychology)
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