Teaching staff knowledge, attributions and confidence in relation to working with children with an intellectual disability and challenging behaviour

The present study examined Scottish teaching staff knowledge about the definition and management of challenging behaviour displayed by children with an intellectual disability. Knowledge levels were relatively low, and participants were most likely to define challenging behaviour by function or topography. Teaching staff were largely unaware of positive programming strategies, suggesting that they may not be properly equipped to manage challenging behaviour effectively in the longer term. The teaching staff were found to hold attributions which research suggests are associated with reduced helping behaviour and increased anger. This indicates a continuing need to identify effective ways of promoting more accurate knowledge and positive attributions in teaching staff

Chasse et développement territorial. Vers un cadre d’analyse global ?

L’article propose une analyse de la contribution des activités cynégétiques au développement territorial en s’appuyant sur deux cadres théoriques complémentaires. D’une part, une version revisitée de la théorie de la base intégrant "une base de consommation" peut permettre de rendre compte des effets à la fois des chasseurs extérieurs et des chasseurs locaux. D’autre part, la chasse peut être à l’origine d’un processus d’innovation et de spécification des ressources territoriales.The paper proposes an analysis of the contribution of huntings to local development with two complementary theoretical frameworks. On one hand, a revisited version of the economic base models integrating "a consumption base" is able to measure both effects of the external hunters and the local hunters. On the other hand, hunting can generate an innovation process and specification of "territorial resources"

Beyond the Feminine in Pushkin's Tatiana

Pushkin's Tatiana tends to be pigeonholed by criticism that acknowledges her dynamism and openness to creative possibilities but restricts her intertextual significance to the heroines of the European novelists she herself reads. I argue that only by viewing her as the construction of a narrator who relies heavily on the stylistics of Karamzin and Zhukovsky can Tatiana be pulled out of such narrow confines. By tracing the thread of these Russian texts in the novel in verse, I will show that they often beg comparison not with their predecessors' heroines but with their male counterparts. Tatiana’s ambiguous characterization when read in conjunction with "Domik v Kolomne" (1830) shows the explicit gender parodies that Onegin only hints at. Using this text, I will ultimately consider Tatiana as an example of the ambivalence of Pushkin's heroine-muse in relation to his own participation in the ‘ballad question’ of the early 19th century

An Analysis of Revenue and Expenses for Providers of Intellectual Disability Supports and Services

The 990 tax forms submitted by Pennsylvania intellectual disability providers were analyzed in an effort to quantify the fiscal health of the providers in this business segment. Tax forms from 2012, 2013, and 2014 from 85 agencies were studied. In each of the tax years and overall across the three periods, roughly one-third of the provider agencies had expenses that exceeded revenue. Despite this negative finding, net assets continued to increase

Sydney Harbour from the Government Domain [picture] /

Pl. no. 2, part 1 of: Sketches in Australia / from drawings by R.M. Westmacott.; S2164

Natives - armed [and] in deep mourning [picture] /

Pl. no. 6, part 1, of: Sketches in Australia / from drawings by R.M. Westmacott.; Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK271/6.; U4204 hand col.; S2168; S4275

North Head of Port Jackson Harbour and the Quarantine Ground [picture] /

Pl. no. 1: Sketches in Australia / from drawings by R.M. Westmacott.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an9196173; S2163