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Experiences of support and help-seeking: A secondary analysis of interviews with women with disabilities who have experienced intimate partner violence
(2011-09-12)
While previous research has explored women’s experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV), their help-seeking experiences and the barriers they encounter when seeking support, little research has explored the perspectives ...
Social capital and the expanded core curriculum
(2011-08-30)
A model of education known as the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) (Lohmeier 2005) proposes that, for blind students, the inability to learn visually severely curtails learning opportunities. A program of instruction must ...
Examining the relationship between chronic pain and health related quality of life among older Canadian adults with disability
(2012-09-11)
Introduction: The effects of chronic pain on health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) among older Canadian adults with disability was not well known.
Study Objectives: This study was conducted to examine the relationship ...
Anatomy of care: exploring direct support work through autoethnographic fiction
(2020-08-27)
In this project, I present a novella, which is constructed as a piece of autoethnographic fiction rooted in my experience working in a waiver home in rural Indiana. A waiver home is a kind of residential setting with ...
Teachers’ experiences with inclusive education in the Ashanti region of Ghana
(2020)
Background:
The literature on inclusive education shows that teachers greatly influence experiences education outcomes of people with disabilities and that support is needed from the government in order for them to be ...
Life's changing landscape - exploring the experiences of people with COPD: an analysis of public narratives.
(2014-01-08)
In this study, data and information publicly available on the Internet were analysed to examine the self-reported experiences of people with COPD. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic progressive disease ...
Living with facial disability: The experiences of female survivors of acid attack in Pakistan
(2016)
This study aimed to highlight the experiences, struggles and challenges of those women who have experienced facial disability due to acid violence in Pakistan. It addressed the issues in terms of knowing the actual reasons ...
Look, listen, learn: collaborative video storytelling by/with people who have been labelled with an intellectual disability
(2013-04-23)
In 2006, I began working collaboratively with People First members to use video
as a means of telling experience-based stories. Although, I found little information that would help prepare me to work collaboratively with ...
Inclusive knowledge translation
(2013-08-21)
This three-phased qualitative study examined the extent to which VP-Net succeeded in conducting Inclusive Knowledge Translation (IKT). Three phases of data collection: documentation of VP-Net knowledge translation activities, ...
Understanding disability in Sudan
(2012-03-30)
Sudan has been at war for decades. As such, many research areas in Sudan have not been investigated. Disability is one of these areas. Although the little literature available indicates that Sudanese have negative attitudes ...