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A Pilot Study On The Impact Of Occupational Therapy Home Programming For Young Children With Cerebral Palsy, Iona Novak, Anne Cusick, Kevin Lowe
A Pilot Study On The Impact Of Occupational Therapy Home Programming For Young Children With Cerebral Palsy, Iona Novak, Anne Cusick, Kevin Lowe
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Occupational therapy home programs are a common approach used to provide interventions for children with cerebral palsy, but there is little evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of such programs. This singlegroup pretest–posttest design pilot study evaluated the impact of an occupational therapy home program implemented with 20 children who had spastic hemiplegic cerebral palsy (ages 2–7 years, mean 3.8). We measured impact using Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI), and the Quality of Upper Extremity Skills Test (QUEST). We measured participation amount through a parent self-report log. Significant changes following intervention occured in scores on …
My Island Home: Indigenous Festivals And Archipelago Australia, Lisa Slater
My Island Home: Indigenous Festivals And Archipelago Australia, Lisa Slater
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
It’s raining in sunny Queensland. Rain wasn’t on my mind when I left wintry Sydney; then I was wondering: why so many Indigenous festivals now? What are they doing? Where did they come from? To what effect? Having fled a chilly Sydney mid-morning, I arrive Friday afternoon (Day 1 of the Dreaming Festival): after an easy one-hour flight to Brisbane, a clean and surprisingly on-time train to Caboolture, a local school bus toWoodford, I shareWoodford’s only taxi to the festival grounds.My companions are a motley crew; only later do I appreciate that they are somewhat representative of the festivalgoer. John …
No Place Like Home: Staying Well In A Too Sovereign Country, Lisa Slater
No Place Like Home: Staying Well In A Too Sovereign Country, Lisa Slater
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In Australia we do a lot of thinking about home. Or so it would seem from all the talk about belonging, home, being at home (see Read). A sure sign of displacement, some might say.
Kin-Fused Reconciliation: Bringing Them Home, Bringing Us Home, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Kin-Fused Reconciliation: Bringing Them Home, Bringing Us Home, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
At the height of the 1965 Freedom Rides through New South Wales, a violent demonstration of angry whites confronted students and local Aboriginal people as they tried to gain entry to the racially segregated pool in Moree. It occurred to one of the local organisers of the protest (Alderman Bob Brown) that the absurd thing about the violent demonstration was that most of those participating (on opposite sides) were in fact related to one another: a huge number of people in Moree are related, they may not be registered down at the registry office. the stupidity of it was that …