Background Continuity of care has been explored largely from academic and service
provider perspectives, and in relation to adult patient/client groups. We interviewed parents of …

Children and adolescents with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) are at high-risk
for developing sleep problems (SPs) triggering daytime behavioral co-morbidities such as …

Context Professional identity formation has become a key focus for medical education. Who
one becomes as a physician is contingent upon learning to conceptualise who the other is …

Most analyses of discourse pragmatics assume a quiet setting that does not affect the
interaction. This study examines two common, communicationally hostile environmental contexts …

The services available to parents of children with hearing losses, and the options concerning
the modes of communication and the educational programs for their children, have …

Despite the importance of context in studies of language use, sociolinguists have ignored
the impact of noise on conversational interaction. This inattention is of particular concern in …

Background: Families are integrally involved in day-to-day caregiving of children with
neurodevelopmental and intellectual disabilities (NDID). Given the widespread and increasing …

Background: Skin-to-skin contact between mother and infant immediately after birth is
recommended regardless of delivery method; however, it is less common after cesarean delivery. …

… We will be employing several strategies during the observational phase of the study that will
provide us with an ethnographic description of the practice of care. We will be enquiring into …

Background: Developmental and behavioural issues often limit the participation of children
with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDD) in community-based activities with their peers, …