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Fall 2019
Indigenous communities in Canada (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) face significant social and environmental barriers to healthy eating. Due in large part to these barriers, Indigenous children are disproportionally affected by nutrition-related chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes....
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: The goal of this project is to develop foundational knowledge on the applicability of the learning perspective to account for interference phenomena when children perform language activities. We expect to learn more about the appropriateness of interpreting interference...
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Dealing with a latent danger: parents communicating with their school-age preadolescent children about smoking - a grounded theory study
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Smoking in youth continues to be an important public health issue. Because adolescence is the key period for smoking initiation, prevention efforts need to take place before the adolescent years. Little is known about parental smoking prevention interventions. The purpose of this study,...
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Spring 2017
This Master’s thesis considers Deborah Ellis’s Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli children speak and The Breadwinner series, works that have stirred lively debate about childhood, children’s literature, and censorship. These two works are the product of Ellis’s travels to Afghanistan, Israel...
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Fall 2011
The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased dramatically over the last three decades in Canada with substantial consequences for the physical, mental, and economic wellbeing of the population. The overarching objective of this thesis was to examine the various aspects of childhood obesity...
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Developing a child health trials register: benefits, challenges and solutions
2008
Hartling, Lisa, Tjosvold, Lisa, Klassen, Terry P.
An overview of the development of a pediatric controlled trials register, the World's most comprehensive register of published pediatric trials.
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Developing and Testing a Theoretical Model to Determine Children’s Adherence to Oral Health Behaviours
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Background: Adherence to health care advice is a complex health concern especially when it involves children. Dental caries has been identified as the most common chronic childhood disease that occurs in a continuum. At the same time, it can be prevented by adherence to proper oral health...
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2015-06-07
Erven, Leslie, Langevin, Marilyn, Savill, Shay-Lee, Danielsen, Sarah
Background/Purpose: Teachers’ understanding of stuttering can powerfully influence the educational experience of children who stutter. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate changes in student teachers’ understanding of the impact of stuttering on the lives of PWS before and...
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Development and Evaluation of the Speech Intelligibility Probe for Children with Cleft Palate Version 5 (SIP-CCLP Ver. 5)
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The Speech Intelligibility Probe for Children with Cleft Palate (SIP-CCLP) is a computer-mediated word imitation measure of intelligibility that targets the speech error patterns of English-speaking children with cleft palate. Previous evaluations provided support for SIP-CCLP as a reliable and...
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DEVELOPMENT OF AN ATTENTIVE USER INTERFACE FOR CONTROLLING A TELEROBOTIC HAPTIC SYSTEM TO SUPPORT PLAY IN CHILDREN WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
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BACKGROUND: Children with physical impairments may face difficulties when playing because of limitations in reaching and handling objects. Children with physical disabilities may have limited opportunities to play, and they may experience negative impacts on their social, emotional, or...