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Youth-Serving Organizations' Inclusivity of LGBTQ Newcomers - A Content Analysis
(2019-08-09)LGBTQ newcomer youth in Canada experience unique challenges due to their intersecting identities which may negatively impact their well-being and development. For those lacking support at home and in school, youth-serving ... -
Examining Mental Health Apps Potential in Providing Equitable Access to Care in the Global North and Global South: A Scoping Review
(2019-08-09)Promising, ongoing research on online mental health interventions or mental health applications (MHAPPs) has presented the global mental health care community with a potential solution to fill in the gaps in access to ... -
Creating Complex Systems: The Implications of the Immigration System Reforms for Refugee Health (2012)
(2019-05-17)In June 2012, the Canadian federal government introduced a new legislature, which drastically reformed the Canadian immigration system. During this time the Conservative government reformed the Interim Federal Health Program ... -
"Can't Nobody Even Spread Their Wings Here": Thinking Disability Alongside Environmental Racism, Collectively Acquired Impairments, and Injustice in Flint, Michigan
(2019-08-14)The unjust production of impairments has historically posed a theoretical and political problem for a Disability Studies committed to normalizing and de-stigmatizing disability. This discursive schism serves to reinforce ... -
"The Carpet Felt Five Inches Thick!" A Socio-Spatial Analysis of the Judge Rotenberg Center
(2019-05-23)Referencing Foucault, Goffman, and the lived experiences and testimony of survivors of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), Canton Massachusetts, read alongside the writing of geographers, architects and sociologists exploring ... -
Sexuality and Visible, Physical Disabilities: A Scoping Review
(2019-07-29)The historical and ongoing desexualization of people with disabilities (PWDs) along with the pervasive ableist narrative in Western societies have led to the equation of disability with asexuality. Although some members ... -
The Ghetto-to-Prison Pipeline: Racialization, 'Reactionary Psychoses', and State-Sanctioned Violence
(2019-07-29)The ghetto-to-prison pipeline echoes Nirmala Erevelles’ conception of ‘institutional arrangements’ whereby marked bodies are removed “from public generative spaces, such as schools, to restrictive spaces of isolation, ... -
Once Upon a Time Was Disability: Disability in Fairy Tales from the Nineteenth Century to Disney
(2019-08-08)Disability has been a part of fairy tales from the beginning. The Western world and literature changed greatly in the nineteenth century, including how disability was used in fairy tales. In the twentieth century, Walt ... -
The Negative Stigma Associated With Learning Disability In Educational Institutions Nigeria
(2019-08-13)There is a lack of understanding related to the way that the stigma of having a learning disability impacts students in Nigeria (Abang, 1988; Fuchs, Mock, Morgan and Young, 2003). The objective of this qualitative, ... -
Contracting Care: Evaluating the effects of the "Second Generation Health System Strategy' on the contracting environment for community organizations in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver
(2019-04-11)This paper examines the impacts of the Downtown Eastside ‘Second Generation Health System Strategy’ (2GHSS) on the contracting environment for community organizations and programs receiving funding from the regional health ... -
The Politics of Reproductive Health and Women's Rights: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Planning 2020
(2018-09-18)Global population policy has been a recurring topic on foreign policy and international development agendas since the end of World War II. Since its inception, initiatives have taken many forms, but all have included a ... -
Pathologizing Abuse: Examining Public Health Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Canada
(2018-10-24)This paper aims to examine the medicalization of intimate partner violence (IPV) using critical political economy, feminist political economy and Foucault’s theory of power. A critical discourse analysis of publications ... -
Persistent Childhood Poverty in Canada: A Political Economy Analysis of its Causes
(2018-11-13)Child poverty is a global phenomenon, although with different rates among nations. It is high in the developing nations, but even in some developed countries, high child poverty rates have been recorded. The primary ... -
Disrupting the Status Quo: Basic Income for People with Disabilities
(2018-10-15)This paper explores how a basic income (BI) program for people with disabilities could affirm the ideals outlined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Ontario Human Rights Code and the UN Convention on the ... -
The Narrative Use of Disability in Tales of Love and Darkness and Sweet Mud
(2018-10-15)Mitchell and Snyder suggest a pattern of representation in which the disability is used to inaugurate narrative and provide motivation and backstory for character, obscuring the reality of disability, and usurping the ... -
Representing Autism in Television: Perpetuating the Stereotypes
(2018-10-16)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is increasing in prevalence in North America. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2018) notes that in 2000 the rate of diagnosis was 1 in ... -
The Social Geographies of Access and Inclusivity for Adults with Learning Disabilities in Indigenous Cultural Contexts
(2018-11-26)Rather than remaining confined to the educational experiences of childhood, learning disabilities (LDs) which impact one’s ability to perceive, interpret, and use both verbal and/or non-verbal information, can be carried ... -
The Profound Impact of Cochlear Implants on a Young Deaf Adult's Life & Deaf Identity
(2018-12-18)This paper explores my autoethnography about the life experiences of young deaf adults with cochlear implants, and most importantly, researching how we describe and identify ourselves. The generation born in the years ... -
rTMS reduces cortical imbalance associated with visual hallucinations after occipital stroke
(2016-10)Objective: To investigate the efficacy of multiday repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the occipital cortex in a patient with continuous visual phosphene hallucinations for more than 2 years following ...
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