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Articles
New Considerations for Employers
Regarding Workplace Integration:
The Impact of Communication Disorders
The aim of the research by Jacques Barrette, Linda Garcia & Chantal Laroche was to examine factors that may prevent the occupational integration of persons experiencing communication disorders.
Precision Reading: Improving
Reading for Students with Learning Disabilities
Mary-Ann Updike & Richard Freeze discuss difficulties in reading fluency that have long been considered to be among the most common characteristics of students with mild disabilities and other special needs.
Play Contexts and Assessing Senses
of Self in Children with Down Syndrome
Tassillie Dent & Gregory Fouts study the feasibility of assessing three aspects of sense of self in young children with Down syndrome, and assess the effects of three social play conditions in eliciting the different senses of self.
Passages to Employment
(PDF)
Rick Freeze, Rod Kueneman, Sid Frankel, Mike Mahon and Tracy Nielsen discuss the barriers to employment faced by individuals with disabilities.
Toward a Social
Model on the Integration of Persons with Human Communication Disorders
into the Workplace (PDF)
Linda J. Garcia, Jacques Barrette and Chantal Laroche review the
current situation facing persons with communications disorders,
with emphasis put on situations faced in the workplace.
Supported and
Self-Directed Employment Support Initiatives in Canada: An Overview
of Issues (PDF)
Aldred Neufeldt, Judith Sandys, Don Fuchs and Martin Logan examine
the efficacy and benefits of supported and self-directed employment
programs in four Canadian provinces, using qualitative and quantitative
methods.
Forums
Self-injurious and Stereotypic
Behaviour: Commentary on the Current State of Knowledge
Convened by Dr. Aldred Neufeldt, the discussants on this topic are Douglas Biklen, Maurice Feldman, Robert Jones, and Stuart McDonald.
Graduate Theses and Exit Papers
Autism: Overcoming the Challenge
with 'Island Connection', by Noelle Baldwin
The Use of Play Therapy for
Children with Learning Disabilities, by Denise Carroll
Integrating Adaptive Technology
Planning into Transition Services for Disabled Adolescents,
by Marla Cook
The Regional Response to the
Formation of Regional Boards for Service to Persons with Disabilities,
by Peter A. Farnden
Changes in Knowledge, Experiences,
Needs and Feelings Following a course of Sex Education for People
with Mild Intellectual Disabilities, by Margaret Newbury-Jones
Vocational Rehabilitation
in Canada: Clientele, Services and Funding Model, by Meloney
Patterson
A Case Study on Returning to Work
by Identifying Psychosocial Factors through the use of the Multidimensional
Health Profile within a Chronic Pain Program, by Audrey C.
Pons
Disability Management: Early Intervention
Programmes, by Arlene Ward
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