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Deaf heroes: Deaf South Africans who are making a difference

open access: yes, 2019
Biographies of deaf ...
Swannack, Robyn, Storbeck, Claudine
core  

What can we learn from disability policy to advance our understanding of how to operationalise intersectionality in Australian policy frameworks?

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Intersectional theory recognises inequity is rarely the result of one social identity; social identities, and their interaction with context and power relations, offer some protective factors, while marginalises others. Taking an intersectional approach to social policy has the potential to provide deeper insights in terms of identifying and ...
Shona Bates, Rosemary Kayess, Ilan Katz
wiley   +1 more source

Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set‐top boxes

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines two Australian government programs from the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, the Home Insulation Program (HIP) and the Digital Switchover Household Assistance Scheme (HAS). Both became shibboleths of the Labor government's perceived waste and incompetence.
Daniel Casey
wiley   +1 more source

Experiences of parents of children with special needs: Educational services, challenges and recommendations from parents' perspectives

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Parents of children with special needs in Nigeria are faced with several challenges. In most cases, decisions are taken without their active involvement, despite them being the primary carers for their children with special needs. This research utilised a qualitative research design with fifteen participants to understand parents' perspectives
Noah Agbo, Sylvia Yeboah Boamah
wiley   +1 more source

Reading ability in both deaf and hearing adults is linked to neural representations of abstract phonology derived from visual speech. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Evans S   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The deaf elementary teachers of the deaf

open access: yes, 1980
The purpose of this graduate project is to describe the status of the deaf elementary teacher of the deaf, his employment opportunities at different educational settings, and the source of his training.
Wright, Hal W
core  

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

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