Validação de «jogos educativos digitais» para o desenvolvimento da consciência fonológica em crianças com NEE

Trabalho de Projeto apresentado à Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Educação Especial – Domínio Cognitivo e Motor.

Evasão na educação profissional : estudo de caso de estudantes com necessidades específicas no Campus Taguatinga do Instituto Federal de Brasília

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do grau de mestre do Mestrado em Educação Social e Intervenção Comunitária da Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Santarém

Iowa programs providing and financing children's care and services, 1988

The purpose of this document is to provide assistance in finding appropriate financial resources and services for young children with special needs.

Affordable housing solutions : affordable housing providers’ perspective

Accessibility to housing for low to moderate income groups in Australia has experienced a severe decline since 2002. On the supply side, the public sector has been reducing its commitment to the direct provision of public housing. Despite strong demand for affordable housing, limited supply has been generated by non-government housing providers. This paper identifies and discusses some current affordable housing solutions which have been developed by non-government housing providers to ameliorate the problem. This study utilises case studies generated from nineteen housing providers during in-depth interviews in South East Queensland in 2007-2008. The case studies are classified into four categories which relate to the nature of their product: affordable rental housing, mixed housing, affordable housing for people with special needs and low cost home ownership. Each category is discussed on the basis of the characteristics typical of that organisation of housing provider, their partnership arrangements and main target market. In addition, the special design and facilities required for people with special needs which include high care accommodation and aged care are highlighted. Finally, this study recommends offering a continuum of solutions to affordable housing for low income people by means of a rent-to-buy scheme.

Affordable housing solutions : affordable housing providers’ perspective

Accessibility to housing for low to moderate income groups in Australia has been experiencing a severe decline since 2002. On the supply side, the public sector has been reducing its commitment to the direct provision of public housing. Despite strong demand for affordable housing, limited supply has been generated by nongovernment housing providers. This paper identifies and discusses some current affordable housing solutions to ameliorate the problem which have been developed by non-government housing providers. This study utilises case studies generated from nineteen housing providers during indepth interviews in South East Queensland in 2007-2008. The case studies are classified into four categories which relate to the nature of their product: affordable rental housing, mixed housing, affordable housing for people with special needs and low cost home ownership. Each category is discussed on the basis of the characteristics typical of that organisation of housing provider, their partnership arrangements and main target market. In addition, the special design and facilities required for people with special needs which include high care accommodation and aged care are highlighted. Finally, this study recommends offering a continuum of solutions to affordable housing for low income people by means of a rent-to-buy scheme.

Fitness and fatness in childhood obesity : implications of physical activity

Overweight and obesity are a significant cause of poor health worldwide, particularly in conjunction with low levels of physical activity (PA). PA is health-protective and essential for the physical growth and development of children, promoting physical and psychological health while simultaneously increasing the probability of remaining active as an adult. However, many obese children and adolescents have a unique set of physiological, biomechanical, and neuromuscular barriers to PA that they must overcome. It is essential to understand the influence of these barriers on an obese child's motivation in order to exercise and tailor exercise programs to the special needs of this population. Chapter Outline • Introduction • Defining Physical Activity, Exercise, and Physical Fitness • Physical Activity, Physical Fitness, And Motor Competence In Obese Children • Physical Activity and Obesity in Children • Physical Fitness in Obese Children • Balance and Gait in Obese Children • Motor Competence in Obese Children • Physical Activity Guidelines for Obese Children • Clinical Assessment of the Obese Child • Physical Activity Characteristics: Mode • Physical Activity Characteristics: Intensity • Physical Activity Characteristics: Frequency • Physical Activity Characteristics: Duration • Conclusion

Negotiating : experiences of community nurses when contracting with clients

A community nurse is required to have excellent interpersonal, teaching, collaborative and clinical skills in order to develop effective individualised client care contracts. Using a descriptive qualitative design data was collected from two focus groups of fourteen community nurses to explore the issues surrounding negotiating and contracting client care contracts from the perspective of community nurses. Thematic analysis revealed three themes: ‘assessment of needs’, ‘education towards enablement’, and ‘negotiation’. ‘Assessment of needs’ identified that community nurses assess both the client’s requirements for health care as well as the ability of the nurse to provide that care. ‘Education towards enablement’ described that education of the client is a common strategy used by community nurses to establish realistic goals of health care as part of developing an ongoing care plan. The final theme, ‘negotiation’, involved an informed agreement between the client and the community nurse which forms the origin of the care contract that will direct the partnership between the client and the nurse. Of importance for community nurses is that development of successful person-centred care contracts requires skillful negotiation of care that strikes the balance between the needs of the client and the ability of the nurse to meet those needs.

Building Healthy Communities : GP Network, Medicare Local and Primary Health Care in the Wheatbelt Region of Western Australia

• Government reports consistently recognise the importance of Primary Health Care to an efficient health system. Barriers identified in Australia’s Primary Health Care include workforce pressures, increase rate of chronic disease, and equitable access to Primary Health Care services. • General Practitioners (GPs) are the key to the successful delivery of Primary Health Care especially in rural and remote regions such as the Wheatbelt region in Western Australia (WA). • The Wheatbelt region of WA is vast: some 72,500 residents spread across 150,000km2 in 43 Local Government Authorities catchments. Majority of the Wheatbelt residents live in small towns. There is a higher reported rates of chronic disease, more at risk of chronic diseases and less utilisation of Primary Health Care services in this region. • General practice patients in the Wheatbelt are among those most in need of Primary Health Care services. • Wheatbelt GP Network (the “Network”) was established in 1998. It is a key health service delivery stakeholder in the Wheatbelt. • The Network has responded to the health needs of the community by creating a mobile Allied Health Team that works closely with GPs and is adaptive to ensure priority needs are met. • The Medicare Local model introduced by the Australian Government in 2011 aimed to improve the delivery of Primary Health Care services by improved health planning and coordinating service delivery. • Little if any recognition has been given to the outstanding work that many Divisions of General Practice have done in improving the delivery of Primary Health Care services such as the Network. • The Network has continued to support GPs and general practices and created a complementary system that integrated general practice with the work of an Allied Health Team. Its program mix is extensive. • The Network has consistently delivered on-required contract outputs and has a fifteen (15) years history of operating successfully in a large geographical area comprising in the main smaller communities that cannot support the traditional health services model. • The complexity of supporting International Medical Graduates in the region requires special attention. • The introduction of the Medicare Local in the South West of WA and their intention to take over the delivery of health services, thus effectively shutting the Network will have catastrophic consequences and cannot be supported economically. • The Network proposes to create a new model, built on its past work that increases the delivery of Primary Health Care services through its current Allied Health Team. • The proposal uses the Wheatbelt GP Super Clinic currently under construction in Northam, part of the Network and funded by the Australian Government is a key to the proposed new model. • Wheatbelt GP Super Clinic is different from existing models of GP Super Clinics around Australia which focus predominately on co-location of services. Wheatbelt GP Super Clinic utilises a hub and spoke model of service outreach to small rural towns to ensure equitable Primary Health Care coverage and continuum of care in a financially responsible and viable manner. In particular, the Wheatbelt GP Super Clinic recognises the importance of Allied Health Professionals and will involve them in a collaborative model with rural general practice. • The proposed model advocated by the Network aims to substitute the South West WA Medicare Local direct service delivery proposed for the Wheatbelt. The Network’s proposed model is to expand on the current hub and spoke model of Primary Health Care delivery to otherwise small unviable Wheatbelt towns. A flexible and adaptive skill mix of Allied Health Professionals, Nurse Practitioners and GPs ensure equitable access to service. Expanded scope of practices are utilised to reduce duplication of service and concentration of services in major towns. This involves a partnership approach. • If the proposed model not funded, the Network and the Wheatbelt region will stand to lose 16 Allied Health Professionals and defeats the purpose of Australian Government current funding for the construction of the Wheatbelt GP Super Clinic. • The Network has considered how its model can best be funded. It proposes a re-allocation of funds made available to the South West WA Medicare Local. • This submission argues that the proposal for the South West WA Medicare Local to take over the service delivery of Primary Health Care services in the Wheatbelt makes no economic sense when an existing agency (the Network) has the infrastructure in place, is experienced in working in this geographical area that has special needs and is capable to expand its programs to meet demand.

Liver transplantation in children: Experience with the development of an Australian pilot programme. The Queensland Liver Transplantation Programme

Children with end-stage liver disease now form a major sub-group of patients considered suitable for liver transplantation (ltp), and enjoy better survival statistics after transplantation than do adults. Since June 1984, a paediatric ltp programme has been developed in Brisbane with an initial working relationship and ongoing close links with two USA centres (Pittsburgh, and the UCLA Medical Center). Fourteen children with end-stage liver disease have been referred to the Queensland Liver Transplantation Programme for formal assessment. Following frank, informed discussion with their parents, 10 of these children were offered the option of ltp. During the transition stage, two infants with biliary atresia were referred to UCLA at their parents' request and, subsequently, eight children aged from 9 months to 6 years have been placed on a transplant candidacy list in Brisbane. A donor procurement team with access to a Queensland Government jet has been available to cover all mainland States except Western Australia. Six of the children have now had orthotopic ltp (two children at the UCLA Medical Center; four children at the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane). One UCLA patient died with a non-functioning graft, and one Brisbane patient died 5 weeks post-transplant with rejection, hepatic artery thrombosis and sepsis. The other four children are alive and well, three with normal liver function and one with unexplained intrahepatic cholestasis, during the 1-20 month follow-up to date. Three further children have died of their liver disease without a donor of an appropriate blood group and size being found, and one patient still awaits a suitable donor. The experience of these authors suggests that ltp is a major advance in the treatment of paediatric liver disease, and that the procedure can be carried out successfully in Australia with initial results comparable with leading overseas centres. The procedure requires the full array of services of a major paediatric tertiary care facility, an intensive team effort with awareness of the special needs of children, and a widespread procurement capability. A major problem for Australia is the procurement of sufficient numbers of optimal paediatric donor livers.

Computer simulation of multi-elemental fusion reactor materials

Thermonuclear fusion is a sustainable energy solution, in which energy is produced using similar processes as in the sun. In this technology hydrogen isotopes are fused to gain energy and consequently to produce electricity. In a fusion reactor hydrogen isotopes are confined by magnetic fields as ionized gas, the plasma. Since the core plasma is millions of degrees hot, there are special needs for the plasma-facing materials. Moreover, in the plasma the fusion of hydrogen isotopes leads to the production of high energetic neutrons which sets demanding abilities for the structural materials of the reactor. This thesis investigates the irradiation response of materials to be used in future fusion reactors. Interactions of the plasma with the reactor wall leads to the removal of surface atoms, migration of them, and formation of co-deposited layers such as tungsten carbide. Sputtering of tungsten carbide and deuterium trapping in tungsten carbide was investigated in this thesis. As the second topic the primary interaction of the neutrons in the structural material steel was examined. As model materials for steel iron chromium and iron nickel were used. This study was performed theoretically by the means of computer simulations on the atomic level. In contrast to previous studies in the field, in which simulations were limited to pure elements, in this work more complex materials were used, i.e. they were multi-elemental including two or more atom species. The results of this thesis are in the microscale. One of the results is a catalogue of atom species, which were removed from tungsten carbide by the plasma. Another result is e.g. the atomic distributions of defects in iron chromium caused by the energetic neutrons. These microscopic results are used in data bases for multiscale modelling of fusion reactor materials, which has the aim to explain the macroscopic degradation in the materials. This thesis is therefore a relevant contribution to investigate the connection of microscopic and macroscopic radiation effects, which is one objective in fusion reactor materials research.

Animalien Bitartezko Esku Hartzea Eskolan

Gaur egungo umeak naturatik urrun eta deskonektatuta bizi dira eta honek izakionganako ondorioak dakartza. Hezkuntza sistema eta mundu natural errealaren arteko lotura eza honen eraginez sortutako emozio desorekak ezagututa, natura eskola eremura gerturatzea erabaki nuen. Balooren laguntzarekin Animalien Bitartezko esku hartze batzuk bizi izan genituen eskolako bi urteko gelan. Txakurraren bitartez umeak emozioak azaleratzearen momentu preziatu bat izan zuten, non errespetua, konfiantza, ziurtasuna, maitasuna eta enpatia moduko kontzeptuak garatu zituzten. Esperientzia hau bizi izandako guztiontzat aberasgarria izan zen arren, onartu beharra dago behar bereziak dituzten umeen arteko bizipenak benetan harrigarriak izan zirela.

O processo de consolidação da Política Nacional de Saúde Bucal: a atenção terciária como desafio da segunda década da política de saúde bucal do SUS

Esta tese tem por objeto descrever e analisar o processo de desenvolvimento da Política Nacional de Saúde Bucal (PNSB) no terceiro nível de atenção. Para entender esse desenvolvimento, foram realizados três macroprocessos de pesquisa. O primeiro grupo de pesquisas procurou mapear a distribuição espacial dos hospitais com disponibilidade de leitos/SUS nos país e saber, dentre estes, quantos contam com serviços de atenção à saúde bucal cadastrados no Sistema de Cadastro Nacional de Estabelecimentos de Saúde (SCNES). O segundo grupo de pesquisas se ocupou em levantar junto ao DATASUS, através das ferramentas de consulta TABNET e TABWIN, dados nacionais relativos ao movimento das Autorizações de Internação Hospitalar (AIH) voltadas para procedimento de código 041402041-3 cuja descrição é Tratamento Odontológico para Pacientes com Necessidades Especiais em todas as unidades hospitalares que apresentaram este tipo de produção no país no biênio 2011/12. Foram consideradas 15 categorias de análise. O terceiro grupo de pesquisas buscou levantar junto ao site do Ministério da Saúde dados das Comissões Intergestores Regionais (CIR) existentes no Brasil até dezembro de 2012 assim como os Planos Diretores de Regionalização (PDR) e os Planos Estaduais de Saúde (PES) dos 26 estados e do Distrito Federal. Os resultados da pesquisa foram cotejados com aqueles verificados no TABWIN acerca do local de internação e de residência dos usuários SUS que se submeteram ao procedimento pesquisado. A fim de permitir uma análise comparativa deste processo numa perspectiva internacional, também foram levantados dados acerca da assistência hospitalar pública em saúde bucal levada a termo nos três países da América do Norte e em 31 países da Europa. Os resultados das pesquisas revelaram o caráter focalizador da atual ação da PNSB, em contraste com a atenção à saúde bucal hospitalar realizada na grande maioria dos países estudados. Entre outros resultados, as pesquisas permitiram concluir que: somente 32% dos hospitais que apresentaram AIH para os fins pesquisados possuía serviço de atenção à saúde bucal cadastrado SCNES; 1% das AIH apresentadas está relacionado ao atendimento de pacientes internados por motivos médicos; e 44% dos estados brasileiros preveem em seus instrumentos de gestão a atenção à saúde bucal em nível hospitalar. Assim, são apresentadas algumas sugestões tanto para o aperfeiçoamento da normatização da PNSB no que diz respeito à gestão da Rede de Cuidados à Pessoa com Deficiência, como para a expansão e extensão dos cuidados assistenciais em saúde bucal a todos os pacientes internados ou em tratamento ambulatorial nos hospitais do SUS.

A Single-armed Manta-board as a New Diver-controlled Planing Board and Its Use for Underwater Surveys

Due to inadequacies of previous underwater towing techniques and the special needs of a recent underwater survey, a modified mania-board technique was developed. With this new technique, the diver holds on to the manta-board with one arm; consequently, the board is referred to as a single-armed manta-board (sam-board). The sam-board proved inexpensive and highly maneuverable, allowing the divers to freely collect samples or record information. Through some experimenting with the board and changing some of the variables, such as rope lengths, towing speeds, etc., a highly efficient towing method can be achieved. Preplanning and strict diving safety procedures must, however, be implemented to assure efficiency. This paper presents the materials, guidelines for board construction, equipment, and preplanning and diving safety procedures necessary for the sam-board towing operation.

A Comunicação Alternativa e Ampliada e suas contribuições para o processo de inclusão de um aluno com Transtorno do Espectro do Autismo com distúrbios na comunicação.

O presente estudo foi fruto de uma pesquisa maior ocorrida no período entre os anos de 2011 e 2012. Tal pesquisa teve como objetivo planejar, implementar e a avaliar um programa de capacitação oferecido para professores da rede municipal do Rio de Janeiro que atuavam em salas de Atendimento Educacional Especializado para introduzir o uso do sistema PECS-Adaptado junto aos alunos com Transtorno do Espectro do Autismo sem fala funcional. Ao final da pesquisa maior, alguns questionamentos surgiram, dando origem ao presente trabalho, a fim de dar seguimento à pesquisa desenvolvida e finalizada. Para tanto, o estudo foi dividido em dois: Estudo I e Estudo II. O primeiro foi o Follow-up da pesquisa maior e teve como objetivo verificar a continuidade do uso do sistema PECS-Adapatado por um aluno com TEA tendo a professora de AEE em sala de recursos como a sua principal interlocutora após o término da pesquisa maior e analisar o avanço na evolução das fases do referido sistema de CAA. Foi realizado em uma sala de recursos do município do Rio de Janeiro e participaram da pesquisa uma professora da sala de recursos e aluno com TEA. Ocorreram 7 sessões de Follow-up, que foram analisadas a partir de um protocolo de registro, de acordo com as tentativas ocorridas e a pontuação de acordo com os níveis de apoio recebidos para usar o sistema de CAA. Os resultados apontaram para uma continuidade do uso do PECS-Adaptado pela professora de sala de recursos e um avanço no desempenho do aluno até a fase 4. O Estudo II teve como objetivo analisar as interações comunicativas de um aluno com TEA em ambiente de sala de aula regular, verificando os efeitos da utilização de um sistema de Comunicação Alternativa e Ampliada no contexto escolar. Tiveram como participantes o aluno do Estudo I, a professora da turma regular que ele frequentava e a estagiária. O estudo ocorreu em uma sala de aula de uma escola regular municipal do Rio de Janeiro e foram realizadas 10 sessões ao todo, das quais 4 sessões de linha de base e 6 de intervenção, além de 3 encontros de capacitação com a professora e estagiária. Para transcrever os dados, foram realizados quadros de categorias dos atos comunicativos dos três participantes, onde foram verificadas as ocorrências em intervalos de 3 minutos. Os resultados sinalizaram uma maior interação comunicativa do aluno com a estagiária na fase de intervenção, uma vez que a professora passou a diminuir significativamente a atenção ao aluno, dirigindo-se pouco a ele. O aluno começou a fazer uso da CAA em sala de aula, ampliando a sua possibilidade de comunicar-se com seus pares em contexto escolar. Concluiu-se que a preocupação com a comunicação é um dos fatores fundamentais para que a inclusão de um aluno com TEA ocorra de forma mais eficaz, assim como outros fatores que ainda precisam ser revistos pela prática pedagógica para garantir o acesso pleno de pessoas com necessidades especiais ao contexto escolar. Além disso, o PECS-Adaptado mostrou-se um eficaz sistema de CAA para ser utilizado por alunos com TEA, mesmo que tenha sido mais efetivo em sala de recursos.