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Learning Therapist's Intervention from Demonstration: Application for Robotic Assistance to Children with Cerebral Palsy
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Physical interaction with the environment and object manipulation play an important role in the development of children's cognitive and perceptual skills. For children who have severe physical impairments, one of the biggest concerns is the loss of opportunities for play. Robots can be used to...
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Mapping the Experiences and Effects of Colonial Material Deprivation in First Nations Early Childhood Education
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Although considerable attention over the past 50 years has been paid to decolonizing First Nations primary and secondary education in Canada, a similar unsettling of colonialism within early childhood education theory, philosophy, and policy has not yet been undertaken. Indeed, and despite...
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Measuring What Matters: Exploring Measures of Métis Children's Social and Emotional Well-being Through Evidence Synthesis and Consensus Group Methods
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The measurement tools selected for use in studies with Indigenous children have an undeniable impact on the validity and applicability of the findings presented, underscoring the need to take seriously calls for the development of self-determined measures that are rooted in the cultures,...
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Fall 2016
This thesis discusses the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying neuromotor impairments in people with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Ninety percent of people with CP have spastic CP and 60% have bilateral motor impairments. The first two chapters introduce CP and review the mechanisms known to...
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Mediating Law: Cultural Production and the Revitalization of Indigenous Legal Orders in Canada
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This dissertation examines contemporary Indigenous cultural production as it mediates conversations within Indigenous and settler legal discourses concerning continuance and change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in Canada. It argues that attention to Indigenous cultural production is...
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Fall 2021
Presented as a written form of visiting, this thesis draws from nîhiyaw pimâtisowin (Cree life and worldview) to share learning through and with beadwork. Utilizing Indigenous research methodologies, research-creation, storytelling and autoethnography, this work explores beadwork to develop an...
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Fall 2023
Indigenous self-determination in the Canadian North has and continues to be limited by the extractive and disempowering political economy of the mining industry. This thesis reports a community-based participatory research study which evaluates the perceptions of a sample of residents a group of...
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Spring 2016
Cerebral Palsy (CP) constitutes the primary outcome of premature nerve injury. Impairment of oxygen and glucose supply during pregnancy to the fetus can induce neuron damage and death. Mental retardation, seizures, learning disabilities, and other mental diseases can occur as a result of this...
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Fall 2023
Since the establishment of modern bioethics in standardized medicine in the mid-late 20th century, the paradigm of Principlism has dominated its teleological landscape. This dominance is largely attributable to the success of the book, Principles of Biomedical Ethics. The multi-faceted nature...