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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multilingual gendered identities: female undergraduate students in London talk about heritage languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this paper I explore how a group of female university students, mostly British Asian and in their late teens and early twenties, perform femininities in talk about heritage languages.
Anderson B.   +27 more
core   +2 more sources

Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phonetic vs. Phonological Considerations in Inter-Generational Vowel Change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Chang et al. (2011) have shown that phonological considerations may override phonetic similarity in influencing the phonetic production of /u/ and /y/ among heritage Mandarin speakers.
Tse, Holman
core  

Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Language Experience in the Acquisition of Spanish Gender Agreement: A Study with Nonce Nouns

open access: yesLanguages
Why is learning the gender of nouns so difficult for some bilinguals? We test the hypothesis that different language learning backgrounds or life experience with Spanish determine how learners follow different morphosyntactic cues for gender assignment ...
Silvina Montrul   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clitic-Doubled Left Dislocation in Heritage Spanish: Judgment versus Production Data

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
This project examines whether heritage speakers of Spanish distinguish when Spanish clitic-doubled left dislocation (CLLD) is discursively appropriate via an acceptability judgment task (AJT) and a speeded production task (SPT).
Jose Sequeros-Valle   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The fragile future of the Cypriot Greek language in the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this article, I reveal the difficulties faced by heritage language speakers in London’s Greek Cypriot ...
Karatsareas, P., Karatsareas, P.
core  

Figures of speech : figurative expressions and the management of topic transition in conversation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
In conversation, speakers occasionally use figurative expressions such as “had a good innings,” “take with a pinch of salt,” or “come to the end of her tether.” This article investigates WHERE in conversation such expressions are used, in terms of their ...
Atkinson   +18 more
core   +2 more sources

The Clinical Spectrum and Neurodevelopmental Pathogenesis of KPTN‐Related Disorder in a Mouse Model

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Pathogenic variants in Kaptin (KPTN) cause KPTN‐related disorder (KRD). KPTN modulates mTOR signaling activation within the KICSTOR complex in response to cellular amino acid levels. We define the clinical spectrum and investigate the developmental pathogenesis of KRD.
Lettie E. Rawlins   +104 more
wiley   +1 more source

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