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Exploring Techniques To Help The Premature Infant Transition To Oral Feeding
Full text linkPremature infants are subject to experiencing many complications as they are underdeveloped and require special care. One issue they experience are feeding difficulties and often have to be started on tube feeding. This integrative review aimed to explore different techniques to help the premature infant transition from tube feeding to oral feeding and evaluated the effectiveness of those techniques. A literature search using the databases CINAHL and Medline were used and seventeen articles from 2018-2023 were examined. Two techniques were discussed: non-nutritive sucking (NNS) and oral motor stimulation (OMS) and various variables were assessed to determine how effective they were on the premature infants and their readiness to transition to oral feeding. Both techniques were shown effective and showed positive results on the different variables that were evaluated. The results demonstrate that new mothers and nurses can use these techniques; however, a limitation to the studies was that there were more randomized studies compared to longitudinal studies.Nursin
Labeling Learning Disabilities: A Qualitative Analysis of Former Special Education Students’ Perceptions of their Educational Experiences
Full text linkStudents who receive special education services are identified as having one of the 13 disabilities categories recognized by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This identification allows for services such as educational, social-emotional, and/or behavioral supports. However, labeling students with a disability can also have detrimental effects on students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of college students with previous individualized education programs (IEP) for learning disabilities (LD) and/or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This study utilized semi-structured interviews and basic qualitative methods to capture the experiences of five current college students at a public, regional university in the northeastern United States who had an IEP during their K-12 experience for LD and/or ADHD. Five themes emerged: (a) effects of labeling, (b) educational experiences, (c) receiving support, (d) others’ perceptions, and (e) self-perceptions. Findings support the need for educational initiatives to combat others’ negative perceptions of special education students, better explanations about special education services for students, and support for special education students who foster negative self-perceptions.Educatio
A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis Exploring The Effects Of Kinesiology Tape On Physical Performance
Full text linkKinesiology tape is one of the most widely used therapeutic, sports products currently on the market. Most people have either seen the tape worn during televised or live sporting events, or maybe they’ve even worn the product themselves. Athletic trainers apply it to their athletes, professionals endorse the product, drug stores even carry the tape, it’s everywhere. KT tape is said to help prevent injuries, aid in a recovery period, and overall, just enhance performance, yet there is little clinical evidence that the product lives up to its claims. There is a need for more research so we can be sure of this product everyone is purchasing and using. More information needs to be available to the consumers and the professionals applying the tape. To determine the effectiveness of kinesiology tape on improving physical performance, specifically the measurement of power.Sport and Movement Scienc
Cristela Guerra
Full text linkA current Senior Arts and Culture Reporter at WBUR and Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Cristela Guerra previously served as a reporter for the Boston Globe and the News-Press. The daughter of a pediatrician and a nurse, Cristela was born in Panama City and joined her parents in Anaheim, CA, Queen, NY, and Fort Lauderdale, FL. She is a 2003 graduate of Saint Thomas Aquinas High School and a 2007 graduate of Florida International University. Cristela moved to Lynn in 2018, where she currently lives. She resides in the building formerly housing Fran’s Place, where she produced a WBUR radio story in 2019. Her interview discusses diaspora issues, her attachment to her grandmother’s home in Panama, and her parents’ negotiation with American culture. She talks about her struggle to come out to her evangelical parents and find her voice as a spiritual queer person. She expresses sympathy for people bullied as “queer” and explains how others have chosen to take ownership of the term. Interview carried out by Andrew Darien
Cristian Recinos
Full text linkCristian, the Executive Director of United Lynn Pride, is a lifelong Lynner. Their mother was born in Mexico and moved to Los Angeles, California, during elementary school. She and Cristian’s father, originally from Guatemala, each moved to Lynn during their teenage years. Cristian grew up in Lynn’s Ward Two around a large extended family of aunts, uncles, and cousins. As the first-born male in his family, he was showered with love and attention that came with responsibilities and pressure to succeed. They attended Ingalls Elementary School, Thurgood Marshall Middle School, Lynn English, and Northshore Community College. A natural introvert, Cristian emerged from his shell when discovering drama at Lynn Classica. He would join the school’s Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) and become a member of the North Shore Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth (NAGLY) as well as the Boston counterpart (BAGLY). Several of Cristian’s family members are queer, allowing him greater ease in coming out. They are a 2018 graduate of Salem State University, majoring in Sociology, and were part of the activist groups The Alliance and Black, Brown, and Proud. They serve in several non-profit organizations throughout the City of Lynn and have significant experience with multiple LGBTQ+ organizations across Massachusetts. Interview carried out by Andrew Darien
David Granese
Full text linkDave Granese is a retired police officer who served for 39 years in the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department. Born in 1962, Dave and his family moved from East Boston to another Italian American community in Revere, where he would spend his childhood and teen years. His family instilled in him the values of respect, which he would exhibit in his life and role as a police officer. He is a 1981 graduate of Revere High School and Northeast Regional Technical High School, where he specialized in electronics. Always a hands-on learner and good communicator, Dave gravitated toward law enforcement. As an openly gay police officer, he would attend Fran’s Place, Dominic’s, and Josephs. Fran’s Place was his “home base,” where he became a regular DJ. His interview discusses the dangerous environment for gay men in the 1980s, gay bashing, harassment from fellow officers, and the joy of wearing his uniform in the Gay Pride Parade as part of the Gay Officers Action League. Interview carried out by Andrew Darien
Margot Abels
No full textMargot Abels is a Professor at Northeastern University with a joint appointment between the Human Services and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs. Raised in Livingston, NJ, she is the daughter of secular, left-leaning Jewish New Yorkers who came of age during the Great Depression. Her father was a clothing manufacturer in New York’s Garment District, and her mother was an independent artist who had earned a Fulbright. Raised with a social conscience and sense of independence, Abels earned degrees from Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Northeastern University. After college, she moved to New York City, where she worked in AIDS education, at an abortion clinic, as an educator for the Department of Public Health. She and her partner, Bridget, moved to Lynn in 1999, and they were the first same-sex residents of Lynn to obtain a marriage license in 2004. She served on NAGLY’s original Board of Directors and remains a community activist
Sunil Gulab
Full text linkSunil Gulab is an artist, environmental scientist, and community organizer who has been an active member of the Lynn community for more than two decades. Born in Harare and raised in Chivhu, Gulab occupied an “in-between” space as an ethnic Indian in the apartheid state of Zimbabwe. He attended Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama, where he encountered an eerily similar racial system that separated blacks from whites. After college, he moved to Jamaica Plain, where he worked as an au pair for a lesbian couple. As he grew comfortable expressing his gay identity, he eventually made his way to Lynn, a city for which he has enormous respect and affection. He attended several gay bars but was most at home at 47 Central. He served for ten years as a mentor for NAGLY (The North Shore Alliance for GLBTQ+ Youth), during which time he received his MBA from Boston College. His interview discussed racial systems of power, identity politics, and generational differences in the LGBTQ+ community
Mastering Mindfulness: North Shore Education Consortium
No full textThe North Shore Education Consortium SOAR & EMBARK Programs provide a unique opportunity for students with disabilities to further their education while simultaneously strengthening their social & life skills. Many of these students struggle with concentration, emotional regulation, and staying grounded, especially in the classroom. The implementation of providing students with mindfulness strategies is imperative in aiding students with this challenge, and the benefits of these exercises were observed and evaluated while students utilized the techniques. These coping skills are useful to anybody, but are especially helpful in assisting these young adults with disabilities as they prepare to be more functional in the professional working world, which represents a major component of the mission of the North Shore Education Consortium
Street Railway Embrace and Resistance on the Massachusetts North Shore
No full textThis thesis presents a history of embrace and distaste for street railways on the Massachusetts North Shore during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In some communities, the streetcar was desired as an economic stimulant and a vital transport method. In others, it was repulsed for fear of bringing undesirable elements. The divergent development of the North Shore, as an inclusive industrial center and an exclusive summer resort, divided the region between street railway embrace and resistance.Histor