16 research outputs found
Career Development for Adults With Intellectual Disability: Pilot Outcomes From a Community-Based Employment Program
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Date Presented 4/1/2017
Occupational therapists can play a unique role in transition and employment for people with intellectual disability. This proposal presents the development and outcomes of a year-long pilot program designed to promote employment and self-determination for adults with intellectual disability.
Primary Author and Speaker: Evan Dean
Additional Authors and Speakers: Katey Burkea</jats:p
Modalities of Exchange: A Summary Report on the Serpentine Gallery Project Skills Exchange: Urban Transformation and the Politics of Care
No full textModalities of Exchange is the final report of Skills Exchange, a collaborative art and social research project that took place between January 2007 and April 2012 led by The Centre For Possible Studies, an artistic residency, community research space, and popular education program in the Edgware Road neighborhood. The report reviews the way in which art is discussed in social care and social care is discussed in art. Surveys five case studies and the ways in which participants re-shaped the original project aims, identifies Modalities of Exchange developed across the studies and summarises them for consideration by funders, policy makers, care-workers, administrators of organisations of art and care. Through five embedded multi-year residencies, Skills Exchange projects tested the idea that isolation and discrimination are best addressed if artists, older people, care-workers and others exchange their skills on equal ground, altering roles, representations and well-rehearsed relations through processes of creative exchange. The report is included in the book Art + Care: A Future, Art + Care: A Future is a publication that speculates on future alliances between the fields of art and elderly care. Featuring essays by key thinkers on issues of ageing and the future, and is contextualised by case studies from five years of the Serpentine Gallery's work in placing artists, designers, researchers and architects in the field of elderly care. Available from Serpentine Galleries and Koenig Books.
Written by Alison Rooke. Developed in collaboration with Janna Graham. Researchers: Cristina Garrido Sanchez, Ananda Furlauto, Laura Cuch, Mara Ferreri and Katey Tabner
Flashes of War (short story collection)
No full textThis debut short story collection will be published May 2013 by Loyola University Maryland\u27s Apprentice House. Doug Stanton (Horse Soldiers, New York Times Bestseller), says: Katey Schultz has written an amazing book. What emerges from these stories is a chorus of voices—American, Afghan, Iraqi—and this chorus enlarged my sense of the experience of a war that has defined an American decade. Flashes Of War is the work of a bold, ambitious, and brilliant young author who is writing stories few others in American fiction have really yet tackled
Scottish community empowerment:reconfigured localism or an opportunity for change?
No full textCommunity development and regeneration policy in Scotland employs aspirational language, depicting communities as the empowered drivers of economic and social change. It anticipates that willing, able and highly skilled community groups will come forward and assume responsibility for the delivery of local services. This narrative fails to account for the impacts of austerity, the complexities of empowerment (Skerratt and Steiner, 2013) or what will happen to communities who fail to be empowered. The article challenges the positive narrative employed in Scotland by highlighting issues that complicate the empowerment process. It concludes by suggesting ways in which a ‘Scottish Approach’ to policy making may help to create opportunities for empowerment policy in Scotland to better address the challenges, inequalities and complexities of empowerment
Scottish Community Empowerment: Reconfigured Localism or an Opportunity for Change?
No full textCommunity development and regeneration policy in Scotland employs aspirational language, depicting communities as the empowered drivers of economic and social change. It anticipates that willing, able and highly skilled community groups will come forward and assume responsibility for the delivery of local services. This narrative fails to account for the impacts of austerity, the complexities of empowerment (Skerratt and Steiner, 2013) or what will happen to communities who fail to be empowered. The article challenges the positive narrative employed in Scotland by highlighting issues that complicate the empowerment process. It concludes by suggesting ways in which a ‘Scottish Approach’ to policy making may help to create opportunities for empowerment policy in Scotland to better address the challenges, inequalities and complexities of empowerment
Lovely Katey of Liskehan
No full textMan pining for the lovely Kateyhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_ire/1007/thumbnail.jp
Comparing the efficacy of picture card stimuli to storybook stimuli in teaching morphologic structures to children with expressive language disorders
No full textThe purpose of this research study was to investigate the efficacy of discrete trial teaching (DTT) using picture card stimuli compared to DTT using storybook stimuli in teaching morphologic structures to children with expressive language disorders. One 7-year-old female child met the inclusion criteria and participated in the study. The author conducted an alternating research design between DTT using picture card stimuli and DTT using storybook stimuli with two separate target behaviors: irregular past tense verbs (experiment 1) and irregular plurals (experiment 2). The results indicated that DTT using both types of stimuli were effective, with little difference in the relative efficacy of DTT delivered with picture cards compared to DTT delivered with storybook stimuli. Results of probes for generalization and maintenance indicated that the participant was able to retain the targeted irregular past tense verbs and irregular plurals. Future research should be conducted to determine if the complexity of storybooks and the number of opportunities provided to evoke the targeted word or behavior would display any significant gains in favor of DTT embedded in storybook stimuli as opposed to DTT using picture stimuli
Building Luxury Brands Across Borders: How to Strategically Position Luxury Brands across Colombia, Peru, & Venezuela
No full textabstract: This paper investigates how a luxury fashion brand would be able to strategically position itself within Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. It specifically looks at consumers' perceptions of general and visual branding strategies such as international and local positioning. Secondary research was conducted on domestic and international branding strategies, standardization and adaption techniques, and cultural business differences between the three countries. After primary research was completed through a survey and multiple interviews. The survey looked into perceptions of international and local brands of each country. The survey was an A/B test where participants were either given questions surrounding a local or international brand description and advertisement visuals. With the interviews, they provided a baseline of information from Colombian consumers on general perceptions of luxury brands, products, and the memories associated with them. Overall, it was found that Columbian participants had more positive perceptions of international brands, Peruvian participates had a more positive perception of local brands, and Venezuelan participants did not have a significant preference for either. Based on these findings, recommendations were made suggesting possible brand positioning and entry strategies for companies wanting to expand throughout Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. The continuation of this paper includes an analysis and interpretation of the findings, the limitations of the research, and the possible future direction and continuation of this research. (abstract
Women Rewriting Scripts of War: Contemporary U.S. Novels, Memoir, and Media from 1991-2013
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This dissertation examines contemporary U.S. women writing about war, with primarily women subjects and protagonists, from 1991-2013, in fiction, memoir, and media. The writers situate women at the center of war texts and privilege their voices as authoritative speakers in war, whether as civilians and soldiers trying to survive or indigenous women preparing for the possibility of war. I argue that these authors are rewriting scripts of war to reflect gendered experiences and opening new ways of thinking about war. Women Rewriting Scripts of War argues that Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Almanac of the Dead juxtaposes an indigenous Story concept against a white industrialized national “Truth,” and indigenous women characters will resort to war if needed to oppose it. Silko’s and the other texts here challenge readers to unseat assumptions about the sovereignty of the U.S. and other countries, about the fixedness of gender, of capitalism, and of how humans relate to each other‒and how we should. I argue in Essay 3 that the script of “the body” or “the soldier” in military service can be expanded by moving toward language and concepts from feminist and queer theory and spectrums of gender and sexuality. This can contribute to positive change for all military members. In each of the texts, there are some similarities in connections with others. Connections enable solidarity for change, possibilities for healing, and survival; indeed, without connections with others to work together, survival is not possible. Changes to established economic structures become necessary for women in Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Poisonwood Bible; I argue that women engaging in alternative modes of economy subvert the dominant economic constraints, gender hierarchies, and social isolation during and after war in the Congo. In Essay 5, I explore two fictional texts about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Helen Benedict's novel Sand Queen and Katey Schultz’s short story collection Flashes of War. The connections in these women’s texts about war are not idealized, and they function as the antithesis to the fragmentation and isolation of postmodern texts.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation English 201
High-latitude Lake Basal Ages and Origins - link to datafile
No full textThis dataset is a compilation of 1,207 lake basal ages used to identify spatial and temporal patterns of lake formation across the high northern latitudes. Data was gathered from scientific literature descriptions of lake cores, peat cores underlain by lake sediments, and exposures within the domain of glaciation and permafrost extent during the Last Glacial Maximum. We distinguished eight classes of lake origin. Where not indicated by the author, we sought to determine lake origin from lithology, geological history and site descriptions within the text. Though most records (95%) were radiocarbon dated, we included robust dates obtained by a variety of methods including varve counting, photoluminescence, Pb/Cs, Th/U, wiggle matching and tephrochronology. We reported oldest sample ages in the majority of cases, electing not to utilize basal ages derived from age-depth models extrapolated beyond dated levels due to both their high level of uncertainty and differences between methodologies used to construct each model. We excluded dates from shallow lake cores that clearly did not reach basal lake sediments, or that were collected for the sole purpose of methods development or recent human impact studies. Records that did not include dates from lower-most cored sediments, that suffered from uncorrected reservoir effects (noted by original author) or that contained copious age reversals were also excluded. Some records provided distinct stratigraphic evidence of lake formation that allowed for exact determination of lake basal age, while other lithologies were more ambiguous. To address this uncertainty, we categorized each lake age as "minimum" or "basal" based on interpretation of contextual, geographical and lithological information
