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Promoting equitable access to disability inclusive early learning & childcare in Nova Scotia: The family experience (Summary Report)
Introduction: In this research, we asked: How do families in Nova Scotia navigate access to inclusive early learning and childcare programs for preschool-aged children experiencing disability? We wanted to know: 1) What ... -
Equitable access to inclusive early learning and childcare for children with disabilities: The family experience
Families of children with disabilities have endured a long history of inequitable access to inclusive early learning and childcare programs due to financial, institutional, sociocultural, and discriminatory barriers. When ... -
The exclusionary effects of inclusion today: (Re)production of disability in inclusive education settings
Current inclusive education practices remain entrenched in deficit-oriented discourses. An interrogation of these discourses is necessary to enact inclusion driven by diversity and collective belonging. This collective ... -
(Re)Imagining inclusion in ways that foster belonging in the lives of disabled children and youth
For the greater part of the twentieth century, thanks in part to disability rights movements around the world, disableda children and youth have increasingly been afforded access to community spaces, such as schools and ... -
Exploring care of hospital inpatients with substance involvement
INTRODUCTION: This article presents demographic and care factors related to persons who are substance-involved and require inpatient administration of intravenous antibiotics. PURPOSE: This study was conducted to explore ... -
Substance use by social workers and implications for professional regulation
Purpose. This study explores the prevalence and patterns of substance use among Canadian social workers. Legalisation of cannabis is forthcoming in Canada in 2018 and it is anticipated that professional regulatory bodies ... -
A pilot study to explore the effects of substances on cognition, mood, performance, and experience of daily activities
Methods: A mixed methods design was implemented, involving ecological momentary assessment (EMA)and interviews. The analysis presents interpretations about the perceived impact of substance use on the performance and ... -
Addictions and impulse-control disorders as occupation: A selected literature review and synthesis
Objective. The question addressed in this paper is: “Are activities that are classified as ‘addictions’ and ‘impulse-control disorders’ occupations?” Background. Current conceptualisations of occupation focus on positive ... -
Ecological momentary assessment: Enriching knowledge of occupation using App-based research methodology
This paper introduces occupational therapists to ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and outlines factors that guide the process of designing a project. EMA methodology is a research methodology that uses electronic ... -
Innocent observers? Discursive choices and the construction of “occupation”
As scholars engaged in processes of knowledge production and knowledge sharing, occupational scientists are afforded a degree of social privilege, authority, and legitimacy and are therefore accountable for the ways in ... -
Methamphetamine use among gay men: An interpretive review of a non-sanctioned occupation
Introduction. Attending to the nuanced meanings of non-sanctioned occupations holds the potential to better grasp the influences of occupational contexts at multiple levels. This interpretive review of the literature ... -
Seeking legitimacy for broad understandings of substance use
This commentary invites discussion about implicit and explicit factors that impede research about substance use from a nuanced perspective that recognises potential benefits and advantages. It is argued that explicit efforts ... -
Silences around occupations framed as unhealthy, illegal, and deviant
Occupational science has made tremendous strides in establishing a theoretical and empirical knowledge base grounded in the study of occupation. Yet given its origins in occupational therapy, a health profession aimed at ... -
Substance use and professional identity
Processes of professional socialization influence types of substances used, patterns of use, and estimation of normalization. This project explores psychoactive substance use among professionals and students in professional ... -
Enhancing occupation through use of substances: A critical interpretative synthesis
Introduction. Substance use, as an occupation, is typically portrayed as problematic and the target of occupational therapy intervention and remediation. At the same time, psychoactive substances may be used to enhance ... -
Use of substances among professionals and students of professional programs: A review of the literature
Background and aims: This literature review investigates the scope of information regarding selfreported substance use by professionals and students in professional programs, with a focus on anticipated and actual effects ... -
The everyday experience of living with and managing a neurological condition (the LINC study): study design
Background: The impact of neurological conditions on individuals, families and society is increasing and having a significant economic impact in Canada. While some economic data is known, the human costs of living with a ... -
The everyday experience of living with and managing a neurological condition (the LINC study): study design
Background: The impact of neurological conditions on individuals, families and society is increasing and having a significant economic impact in Canada. While some economic data is known, the human costs of living with a ...