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Symbolic gesturing:Creating opportunities for emotional connections between practitioners and infants in day care
Get PDFThis article reports on how symbolic gesturing was applied in a nursery setting. Forms of signing systems have been well documented as contributing to communication, predominately used alongside speech when there is a different mother tongue or a physical impairment [Goodwyn, S. W., & Acredolo, L. P. (1993). Symbolic gesture versus word: Is there a modality advantage for onset of symbol use? Child Development, 6, 688–701]. Symbolic Gesturing (SG) is an emerging area to support pre-verbal infants in communicating more effectively. In this article, SG was evaluated as way of reflecting and developing practitioner’s emotional responses and initiations with the infants in their care. The narratives of three practitioners using SG were gathered over several months and revealed how SG created further opportunities for reflection regarding the emotional relationships with infants they cared for. SG was considered a valuable approach to enhancing the emotional interactional connections with infants, resulting in closer, more attuned relationships
Review: “Kristine Alexander, Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s”.
No full textSupporting young carers: Evaluation of the Hampshire Young Carers Alliance (HYCA) collaboration (value for money)
Get PDFThis report provides a first overview of the value for money of the HYCA collaboration and its services for young carers and their families and highlights the diverse range of positive impacts that HYCA projects bring about.It will be helpful for those commissioning, funding or developing services for young carers and families and for HYCA itself when developing their services and communicating the value of what it does. Since the HYCA projects could be described as being typical of young carer services in the UK, this report has wider relevance to other projects supporting young carers and to those working together collaboratively, or considering doing so.Using findings from previous evaluation reports, the report draws together the different impacts that HYCA services were found to bring about, and the different features of the collaboration and the individual young carer projects, that bring value to its overall service.Analysis of the content from the previous evaluation reports of the Hampshire Young Carers Alliance (HYCA) collaboration (2016-2019) was undertaken by extracting the findings related to the following two themes:•the different impacts that HYCA services were found to bring about•the different features of the HYCA collaboration (and the individual projects) that bring value to the overall services provided for young carers and their families.Future research is suggested and recommendations are provided in the Appendices.Headlines•HYCA brings a wide range of positive impacts.•Positive outcomes are achieved for young carers, their families, the individual projects themselves and for other local services.•HYCA brings about positive outcomes at a county-wide level by developing practice and policy, awareness raising and capturing the voice of young carers.•The HYCA collaboration and the individual services, bring ‘added value’ through their knowledge, skills and experience.•HYCA and individual projects benefit from being third sector organisations.•Volunteers markedly increase the value of projects.•The value of HYCA is increased through its collaborative work.•Findings highlight the potential for HYCA to further increase the value of its service. <br/
Holy Mothers of God:Sex work, inheritance, and the women of Jesus' genealogy
Get PDFIn this article I consider the stories of Jesus’ women ancestors in the genealogy which opens the Gospel of Matthew. Reading these stories in light of Marxist-feminist analyses of marriage, sex work and reproductive labour; alongside contemporary sex workers’ rights discourse, and through Marcella Althaus-Reid’s claim that all theology is “a sexual act”, I explore their implications for contemporary debates about property and propriety in both Christian systematic theology and contemporary Christian sexual ethics – which cannot, of course, be disentangled from one another. To conclude, I return to the twinned questions of righteousness and purity which centrally define both theological accounts of Christian identity and Christian sexual ethics, suggesting that righteousness relies for its coherence not only on the abjection of those who fall short of its standards, but also on their labour
Effects of robotic-assisted gait training on the central vascular health of individuals with spinal cord injury: A pilot study.
Get PDFObjective: To investigate the effect of a short-term, robotic-assisted (exoskeleton) gait training (RGT) program on central and peripheral hemodynamic measures in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). Design: Parallel group, non-randomized trial with before (baseline) and after (follow-up) assessments. Setting: Single-center, community-based neuro-physiotherapy practice. Participants: Twelve individuals with SCI (ASI A to C). Interventions: Participants completed either a 5-day RGT program plus physiotherapy (n = 6), or a usual care physiotherapy only program (control group; n = 6). The RGT program consisted of daily 60-min physiotherapy and 90-min of RGT. Outcome measures were measured before and after the rehabilitation program. Main outcome measure(s): The primary outcome measure was arterial wave reflection (Augmentation index [AIx]), with central and peripheral blood pressures also reported. Data are presented as mean (SD) and effect sizes (partial eta squared; η2 p). Results: There was a significant reduction in AIx (30 ± 18–21 ± 15%; η2 p=0.75) and mean arterial pressure (89 ± 11–82 ± 10 mmHg; η2 p=0.47) following completion of the RGT program (both P < 0.05). There were no changes in these measures for the control group. Although not significantly different, medium to large effects were observed in favor of RGT for all other central and peripheral measures (η2 p=0.06–0.21), except for heart rate and pulse pressure (η2 p<0.04). Conclusions: RGT using an exoskeleton is a promising therapy for improving cardiovascular health in patients with SCI. Specifically, this study indicates decreased arterial wave reflection and supports the need for larger randomized controlled trials. Trial Registration: Clinical trials Registry (https://clinicaltrials.gov/; NCT03611803)
Review of Hudson Aida (ed), Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography (Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2019)
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