Understanding the Needs and Knowledge Base of Developing Speech-Language Pathology Programs: A Preliminary Mixed Methods Survey in the United States

The field of speech-language pathology provides important rehabilitation services for communication and swallowing disorders. Unfortunately, these services are lacking around the world, specifically in Majority countries, formally known as third world countries. This is significant given the high proportion of people with disabilities in Majority countries. While speech-language pathology services are actively being introduced to these areas, it is often with the inappropriate transfer of Minority world values. In an effort to provide a less biased and more formal approach to collaborating with countries requesting help to establish speech-language pathology services, the author of this thesis is proposing a process to comprehensively assess self-perceived areas of needs which includes: 1) develop a framework, 2) create a tool, 3) identify future directions. The process described above was modeled with SLPs in the United States as a preliminary measure of validity to assess if Minority countries, formally known as first world countries, are adhering to the same global standards they place on Majority countries. As an initial step in the process, global assessment standards were gathered from 39 international Minority world speech-language pathology organizations and coupled with the Communication Disability Model (CDM) to create a survey tool (Hartley & Wirtz, 2002). The results indicated that the SLPs sampled from the United States are not equally addressing each branch of the CDM (i.e., impairment, range of function, social factors, environmental factors). Different demographic groups (e.g., years of experience, work setting) also identified varying needs which could be used to direct specific support in the future, potentially increasing CDM alignment. These results suggest that, although having global standards may seem ideal for consistency of care around the world, those standards may not even be realized in Minority countries where there are already well-established speech-language pathology services. For this reason, Minority world countries should not have the expectation that each CDM area will or should be addressed 100% of the time when collaborating with Majority world countries. In the future, the survey tool may be used to drive individualized support for countries seeking to provide quality communication services within their distinct cultural values. Advisor: Kristy Weisslin

A Comparative Study Of Distributive Education Programs In Four High Schools Houston, Texas

The distributive education movement had its beginning as an organized school activity in 1905 under the leadership of Lucinda Price of the Women\u27s Educational and Industrial Union. She organized her first class of eight girls for store training. In 1906, she started her third class with a promise from William Filene\u27s Sons Company of practical store experience on Mondays. High school retail training classes began in Providence, Rhode Island, about 1910, and in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, about 1911. Daily work experience as a basic principle of cooperative occupational training was developed in those early classes. Organized instruction was almost wholly neglected in the public school courses and it became evident to vocational leaders that this was a serious defect in the whole vocational program. An interpretation of that part of the Smith-Hughes Act, dealing with the general continuation part-time school, gave the needed encouragement to those working to provide for what came to be known as distributive education . This 1919 ruling of the Federal Board for Vocational Education made it possible to offer courses in retail selling to be given to pupils employed in stores by using industrial education funds for this purpose. In 1931s a Modification of the ruling permitted the organization of part-time cooperative classes for ployed youth

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Elaine Johannes, Jana Jones & Brad Williams, OPEN-K opportunities for prevention education and networking in Kansas, Kansas State University, August 1999

A Template Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence Survivors’ Experiences of Animal Maltreatment: Implications for Safety Planning and Intervention

This study explores the intersection of intimate partner violence (IPV) and animal cruelty in an ethnically diverse sample of 103 pet-owning IPV survivors recruited from community-based domestic violence programs. Template analysis revealed five themes: (a) Animal Maltreatment by Partner as a Tactic of Coercive Power and Control, (b) Animal Maltreatment by Partner as Discipline or Punishment of Pet, (c) Animal Maltreatment by Children, (d) Emotional and Psychological Impact of Animal Maltreatment Exposure, and (e) Pets as an Obstacle to Effective Safety Planning. Results demonstrate the potential impact of animal maltreatment exposure on women and child IPV survivors’ health and safety

Nurse-sensitive outcomes of advanced practice

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72541/1/j.1365-2648.2000.01598.x.pd

The problem with ‘knife crime’; What’s in a label?

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Policing the crisis in the 21st Century: the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain

The terms ‘knife crime’ and ‘knife culture’ were first established in British crime discourse at the turn of 21st century and represent a particular re-making of youth in post-industrial Britain. The generational impacts of advanced neoliberalism have intensified conflict between marginalised young people in the UK as they compete for success in high-risk informal economies and navigate the normalised brutalities of everyday violence. However, the impact of extreme inequality and structural violence on children has not been central in the response to youth-on-youth knife homicides in the 2000s and 2010s. Instead, these decades have been characterised by punitiveness and surveillance, increasing discriminatory stop and search practices and extending powers that target and control young people. Through conjunctural analysis of the making of ‘knife crime youths’ in the UK, this paper considers how shifting forms of cultural racism have been able to rearticulate child violence as cultural deficit, using race once again to work through the contradictions of late capitalism. Applying a radical criminological understanding of deviance labelling as a specific response to crime, this paper asks: To what extent is the construction of ‘knife crime’ a continuation of Policing the Crisis in the 21st century? And why has this process been relatively uncritiqued by practitioners and academics that contribute to ‘knife crime’ discourse? Using document, archive and discourse analysis this paper presents a social history of ‘knife crime youths’, depicting the formative interactions that have so far been obscured by the matter-of-fact dominance of the label and its practices

Children exposed to intimate partner violence: Identifying differential effects of family environment on children\u27s trauma and psychopathology symptoms through regression mixture models

The majority of analytic approaches aimed at understanding the influence of environmental context on children\u27s socioemotional adjustment assume comparable effects of contextual risk and protective factors for all children. Using self-reported data from 289 maternal caregiver-child dyads, we examined the degree to which there are differential effects of severity of intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure, yearly household income, and number of children in the family on posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTS) and psychopathology symptoms (i.e., internalizing and externalizing problems) among school-age children between the ages of 7–12 years. A regression mixture model identified three latent classes that were primarily distinguished by differential effects of IPV exposure severity on PTS and psychopathology symptoms: (1) asymptomatic with low sensitivity to environmental factors (66% of children), (2) maladjusted with moderate sensitivity (24%), and (3) highly maladjusted with high sensitivity (10%). Children with mothers who had higher levels of education were more likely to be in the maladjusted with moderate sensitivity group than the asymptomatic with low sensitivity group. Latino children were less likely to be in both maladjusted groups compared to the asymptomatic group. Overall, the findings suggest differential effects of family environmental factors on PTS and psychopathology symptoms among children exposed to IPV. Implications for research and practice are discussed