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Direct linkThorburn, Marigold J. – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
A population-based prevalence study in one region of Jamaica in 1987-1989 indicated that about 8% of the childhood population had cognitive (intellectual) disability. Some harmful beliefs and practices persist about child rearing, violence towards women, and child abuse of all types. A lack of knowledge is apparent about the efficacy of home-based…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Early Intervention, Child Abuse, Mental Retardation
Harmer, Bonnie – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2005
Born in Jamaica in 1805, Mary Seacole (nee Grant), was the daughter of a Black Creole boarding house owner and a Scottish Army officer. Like many Creole doctress women, Seacole was taught African herbal medicine arts from her mother. In addition to understanding traditional herbal medicine, she gleaned an understanding of Western medicine from the…
Descriptors: Nurses, Creoles, Medicine, African Culture
