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- 4Volden, Joanne
- 3Adams, Kim
- 3Schneider, Phyllis
- 2Charest, Monique
- 22Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of
- 21Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of/Speech Pathology and Audiology
- 6Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC)
- 6Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC)/Children, Youth and Family (Edmonton Social Planning Council)
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2014-06-27
Evans, Brittany, Farnand, Allison
Typically developing children learn and develop their cognitive, language , social and motor skills by interacting with their environment. This includes playing with toys and physically manipulating objects. Children with physical limitations may not be able to fully explore their world in...
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2011-08-03
Yungwirth, Shaelene, Genuis, Sarah, Charlton, Sheila
Currently, cognitive function of children with motor impairment is difficult to assess because most cognitive assessment tasks require manipulation of small objects and/or verbal intelligibility. Research has demonstrated that play using robots allows children with motor impairments to manipulate...
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We can do better: toward an Alberta child poverty reduction strategy for children and families
Download2008-11-01
Edmonton Social Planning Council, Kolkman, John
A new provincial report on Child and Family poverty released today by the Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC) reveals that 77,595 children are living in families below Statistics Canadas Low Income Cut Off (LICO). This means one in ten children in Alberta live below the poverty line.
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2015-06-30
Sanders, Kaitlin, Borger, Paige, Charest, Monique, Schneider, Phyllis, McFarlane, Lu-Anne, Yip, Beatrice
BACKGROUND INFORMATION There is compelling evidence that, for the majority of children with specific language impairment (SLI), language difficulties are longstanding. Other research, however, has reported that a high proportion of affected preschool-age children recover by about kindergarten...
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1989-10-01
Edmonton Social Planning Council
Special project application to United Way Children and Poverty Project.
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2012-05-31
The following review aimed to discover what elements in AAC interface design best facilitate AAC use in play in order to support children with complex needs in their linguistic, cognitive, and social development. The review explored how AAC use helps in development and how AAC effectiveness can...