Considerations for increasing cultural safety when assessing the language abilities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are outlined.doi:10.1111/ajr.12766Barbra ZupanSpeech Pathology Central Queensland University Rockhampton QLD AustraliaNaomi Campbell-Woods...
However, program-related factors shown to influence the acceptability of e-mental health for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – local production, culturally relevant content, graphics, and language, ease of use, and security and information sharing – must be considered in the development...
Similarly, in Australia, the AHMRC (2007, p.12) noted "grief and loss were often identified as contributing factors to gambling for Aboriginal people". From qualitative interviews with 60 Aboriginal Austral- ians in Queensland (QLD), living with grief and loss from the death, suicide and in...
(2012). Using mobile phones as placed resources for literacy learning in a remote Indigenous community in Australia. Language and Education, 26(4), 279–296. Article Google Scholar Bainbridge, R., Tsey, K., Brown, C., McCalman, J., Cadet-James, Y., Margolis, S., & Ypinazar, V...
In Australia, early settler writings from the 1830s to mid-1800s reported congregations of Aboriginal groups from multiple clans and language groups taking advantage of the annual migration of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) in and near the Australian Alps, the continent’s highest mountain range....
Conversley, where the health system appears to ‘speak a different language’ with hard-to-interpret processes or routines, individuals may feel unsure or even fearful about interacting with, asking questions of, or seeking assistance within the health system, in turn affecting their trust in that...
Evidence of this contact is copious—both in the oral stories of the Aboriginals themselves and the incorporation of Macassan words into the Yolngu language (one of AL's largest tribes) (Walker and Zorc 1981). Although there have been extremely few studies of ge- netic variation among ...
Census. Approximately half the residents are Aboriginal people and two thirds of these Aboriginal community members are aged younger than 40 (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016). The traditional owners of the Derby area are the Nyikina people, one of around 50 Aboriginal language groups that ...
descriptive language related to the experiences. The visual representation of these types of concepts through metaphors aligns with the narrative approach of telling stories that values the spoken word and oral history tradition in Aboriginal culture and is considered a respectful research technique [48]...
Overall, the rules and routine of the OH program appealed to both clients and staff. Rules are explained to clients when they first arrive in “plain language,” and read out each week to remind people of them. As described by clients, the rules are “strict, but fair” (C2), with on...