RRflexions sur la situation sociolinguistique et juridique des populations Autochtones au Canada: Droits et enjeux linguistiques et d''ducation (Reflections on the Sociolinguistic and Juridical Situation of Aboriginal Populations in Canada: Linguistic and Educational Rights and Issues)

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Balabanian
Keyword(s):  
Educational Rights ◽  
Aboriginal Populations

Distractions and Defractions: Using Parental Rights to Fight Against the Educational Rights of Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Diverse Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 089590482098303
Author(s):  
Cris Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Parental Rights ◽  
Diverse Students ◽  
Educational Rights ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Gender Diverse ◽  
Youth Rights ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Religiously Based

In recent years, conservative advocates have obscured their transphobia by framing their concerns as religiously-based parental rights claims. They have advocated for limitations on youth rights to gender identity self-determination. This article examines policy debates over transgender-inclusive practices in schools, including conservative demands for parental notification and limitations on healthcare access for transgender youth. I suggest that schools ought to be more concerned with children’s or students’ rights to help enable diverse students to flourish and become who they are in supportive schools. This shift would move schools away from the distractions of conservative parental rights claims and re-focus them instead on the needs of students.

Dementia in Aboriginal people in Residential Aged Care Facilities in Alice Springs: A Descriptive Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-179
Author(s):  
Bruce Hocking ◽  
Michael Lowe ◽  
Tricia Nagel ◽  
Caroline Phillips ◽  
Melissa Lindeman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Aged Care ◽  
Residential Aged Care ◽  
Aboriginal Populations ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Aged Care Facilities ◽  
Residential Aged Care Facilities ◽  
Clinical File

AbstractBackground:A high prevalence of dementia among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has been reported but knowledge of underlying causes and associations remains limited.Objective:To identify the prevalence of factors that may be associated with the categories of Major neurocognitive disorders (Major NCDs) in Aboriginal people living in residential aged care facilities in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory (NT).Design and Setting:This descriptive cross-sectional study analysed clinical file and cognitive assessment data of participants who were identified as having cognitive impairment between January and June 2016.Method:Screening for the presence of cognitive impairment using the Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (KICA) was undertaken and 58 of 84 Aboriginal people were admitted to the study. Using a clinical file audit, diagnoses of Major NCDs consistent with the DSM-5 classification were made and the prevalence of factors possibly associated with these diagnoses described.Results:Fifty of the 58 participants were diagnosed with a Major NCD. The most frequent diagnoses were Major NCD due to vascular disease (30%), Major NCD due to Alzheimer’s Disease (26%) and Major NCD due to brain injury (20%). Hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and alcohol misuse were commonly reported together with hypothyroidism, hypoglycaemia and vitamin D deficiency.Conclusion(s):This study identified possible associations with Major NCDs in this population as well as a different spread of Major NCD diagnoses to previous studies in Aboriginal populations. There is a need for further research to understand the causes of dementia in Australian Aboriginal people and to use this information to appropriately tailor treatment and prevention programmes.

Issues in the Suspension and Exclusion of Disruptive Students

1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Bain
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Disruptive Behaviour ◽  
Disruptive Students ◽  
Special Education Policy ◽  
Emotionally Handicapped ◽  
Educational Rights ◽  
Appropriate Education

This paper will address issues associated with the use of suspension and exclusion as an intervention for dealing with disruptive behaviour in schools, with a particular focus on secondary students in Western Australia. There is increasing support for the view that many of the students suspended or excluded from school for disruptive behaviour may be socially/emotionally handicapped and as such are being denied access to an appropriate education on the basis of their handicapping condition. The legal and service delivery implications of this position are discussed within the context of current Australian special education policy and international agreements pertaining to the educational rights of children.

scholarly journals A large outbreak of conjunctivitis caused by a single genotype of Neisseria gonorrhoeae distinct from those causing genital tract infections

2001 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. MAK ◽  
D. W. SMITH ◽  
G. B. HARNETT ◽  
A. J. PLANT
Keyword(s):  
Neisseria Gonorrhoeae ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Genital Tract ◽  
Aboriginal Populations ◽  
Single Genotype ◽  
Large Outbreak ◽  
Genital Tract Infections ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
Gonococcal Conjunctivitis ◽  
Tract Infections

Several epidemics of gonococcal conjunctivitis have occurred in Aboriginal populations in Central Australia. In 1997, the first outbreak in the Kimberley region of Western Australia occurred, spreading to Central Australia with a total of 447 cases. A genotyping method was applied directly to DNA extracted from patient samples to characterize the gonococcus causing the epidemic and to compare it with contemporaneous genital isolates. Those positive conjunctival specimens from Kimberley and Central Australia that could be genotyped were all indistinguishable, but were distinct from the genital gonococci, even when they shared the same auxotype and serotype. This suggested that the outbreak was due to a single genotype of Neisseria gonorrhoeae that had probably been carried between communities by infected individuals. We did not find evidence to support the existence of a genital reservoir of the types causing epidemic gonococcal conjunctivitis.

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