Public Interest Directorate: APA seeks to address needs of the disabled

Review: Economy, Territory, Identity: Politics of West European Peripheries, the Politics of Territorial Identity: Studies in European Regionalism, the Disabled State, Public Planning in the Netherlands: Perspectives and Change since the Second World War, State Apparatus: Structures and Language of Legitimacy, Urban Economics: An Introduction, Structure Plans and Local Plans—Planning in Crisis, the Public Interest on Education, the Public Interest on Crime and Punishment, the New Urban Reality

Environment and Planning C Government and Policy ◽

10.1068/c040247 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 247-256

Author(s):

G E Smith ◽

C Philo ◽

R H Williams ◽

R J Bennett ◽

M Cadwallader ◽

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Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Public Interest ◽

Urban Economics ◽

Second World War ◽

The Public ◽

Identity Studies ◽

Territorial Identity ◽

State Apparatus ◽

The Disabled ◽

Second World

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Dental hygiene students' attitudes and self-confidence in the care of the disabled

Journal of Dental Education ◽

10.1002/j.0022-0337.1987.51.12.tb02166.x ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 51 (12) ◽

pp. 713-715 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

RJ Gruythuysen

Keyword(s):

Dental Hygiene ◽

Dental Hygiene Students ◽

Self Confidence ◽

The Disabled ◽

Students Attitudes

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The Development of Speech-Language Pathology in Zambia: A Reflection on the Current Landscape and Two Contrasting Training Models

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups ◽

10.1044/persp2.sig17.63 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (17) ◽

pp. 63-72

Author(s):

Suzanna Bright ◽

Chisomo Selemani

Keyword(s):

Multidimensional Poverty ◽

Capital City ◽

Service Development ◽

Speech Impairment ◽

Implementation Challenges ◽

Training Models ◽

The Disabled ◽

Disability Prevalence ◽

Service Gap ◽

Communication Disability

Functional approaches to disability measurement in Zambia reveals an overall disability prevalence rate of 13.4%, 4% of whom are recorded as having “speech impairment” (Zambia Federation of the Disabled [ZAFOD], 2006). Further, multidimensional poverty assessments indicate that 48.6% of Zambia's approximately 16 million citizens are impoverished. Currently, there are three internationally qualified speech-language pathologists (SLPs) providing services within Zambia's capital city, Lusaka. Given these statistics, it follows that a significant number of Zambian's, experiencing communication disability, are unable to access specialist assessment and support. Over the past decade, Zambia has seen two very different approaches to address this service gap—firstly, a larger scale top-down approach through the implementation of a formal master's degree program and more recently a smaller scale, bottom-up approach, building the capacity of existing professionals working in the field of communication disability. This article provides an overview of both programs and the context, unique to Zambia, in which they have developed. Authors describe the implementation challenges encountered and program successes leading to a discussion of the weakness and merits to both programs, in an attempt to draw lessons from which future efforts to support communication disability and SLP service development in Majority World contexts may benefit.

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