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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Youth with high support needs, families and social services: a relation of resources and gaps

Scientific Reports
Youth have specific demands and needs in relation to their life stage that must also be met for people with high support needs (HSN). Notwithstanding, social services do not differentiate by age when assigning a dependency care resource.
Marta Mira-Aladrén, Javier Martín-Peña, Marta Gil Lacruz   +2 more
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Developmental Stages of Perception and Language Acquisition in a Perceptually Grounded Robot [PDF]

, 2004
The objective of this research is to develop a system for language learning based on a minimum of pre-wired language-specific functionality, that is compatible with observations of perceptual and language capabilities in the human developmental ...
Boucher, Jean-David, Dominey, Peter Ford
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Nothing less than a creative triumph: a study of children admitted to hospital for serious somatic illness or injury and their experience of art therapy

Frontiers in Psychology
BackgroundHospitalization can be an extremely distressing experience for seriously ill and injured children. Art therapy has a well-established clinical history, and recent research has begun to demonstrate its effectiveness in somatic pediatric wards ...
Patricia Loreskär, Patricia Loreskär, Per-Einar Binder   +2 more
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The development of complex verb constructions in British Sign Language [PDF]

, 2002
This study focuses on the mapping of events onto verb-argument structures in British Sign Language (BSL). The development of complex sentences in BSL is described in a group of 30 children, aged 3;2–12;0, using data from comprehension measures and ...
Herman, R., Morgan, G., Woll, B.
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‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison, Jacqui Theobald, Kirsty Forsdike, Ingrid Wilson, Elena Wilson, Leesa Hooker   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Hurry Up and Get Me out of Here’: The Experience of People Under 65 Years (Still) Stuck in Aged Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn, Kate D'Cruz, Mark Brown, Jacinta Douglas, Dianne Winkler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Big Data Governance Practices in Public Higher Learning Institutions

IEEE Access
Big Data Governance (BDG) has become essential for ensuring the secure, efficient, and strategic use of data in modern organizations. This study investigates the current state of BDG practices within Public Higher Learning Institutions (PHLIs) in ...
Yunusa Adamu Bena, Roliana Ibrahim, Jamilah Mahmood, Hitham Alhussian, Said Jadid Abdulkadir, Maged Nasser, Matthew O. Ayemowa   +6 more
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Symbiotic modeling: Linguistic Anthropology and the promise of chiasmus [PDF]

, 2016
Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising ...
Bartoli Cannada, Bollig Ben, Burke Kenneth, Carrithers Michael, Creation Mythical, Deely John, Fauconnier Gilles, Fernandez James W., Gudeman Stephen, Hariman Robert, Hariman Robert, Herzfeld Michael, Jamin Pelkey, Lewis E. Douglas, Lissner Patricia Anne, Lévi-Strauss Claude, Maranda Pierre, Merleau-Ponty Maurice, Meyer Christian, Meyer Christian, Mosko Mark S., Oesterreich Peter L., Paul Anthony, Peirce Charles Sanders, Rumsey Alan, Salazar Philippe-Joseph, Shapiro Michael, Shaw Marvin, Strecker Ivo, Strecker Ivo, Strecker Ivo, Strecker Ivo, Thomas-Fogiel Isabelle, Tyler Stephen, Tyler Stephen, Usher Phillip John, Vanier Alain, Varela Francisco J., Washburn Dorothy K., Washburn Dorothy K., Wiseman Boris, Wiseman Boris, Wiseman Boris, Wiseman Boris, Wiseman Boris   +44 more
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