Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the Curriculum Part I: An international literature review Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 This literature review has focused on the needs of those deaf children for whom visual communication through a Sign Language is beneficial for their educational development.…
Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the curriculum Part II: A New Zealand Overview Last Publication Date: 01 Dec 2010 Language instruction to children with hearing loss requires the highest level of competency at the earliest age levels in order to optimize neural plasticity providing the…
Seeking and establishing the views of disabled children and young people: A literature review Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2010 Social Work Now, issue 46, pages 9-18. Listening to children’s voices and accessing their views about service provision in the education, health, social services and legal disciplines…
The right of people with disabilities to be parents Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2010 Social Work Now, Issue 46, pages 25-28. Article 23 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to which New Zealand became a signatory…
The Windmill Programme: Thinking outside the square Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2010 Social Work Now, Issue 46, page 36-40. Research has shown that children with disabilities struggle to find a place in mainstream social and recreational programmes (Families Commission,…
Faiva Ora National Pasifika Disability Plan 2010-2013 Last Publication Date: 02 Oct 2010 The Faiva Ora National Pasifika Disability Plan sets out Government priority focus areas for Pacific disability in the next three years. The report looks at improving the…
The Review of Special Education 2010: Public response summary Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2010 In 2010 the public were invited to participate in the Review of Special Education by responding to a discussion document featuring questions on special education.
Education that fits: Review of international trends in the education of students with special educational needs Last Publication Date: 01 Aug 2010 The purpose of this review is to outline international trends in the education of students with special educational needs, with the aim of informing the Ministry…
Credentialling Framework for New Zealand Health Professionals Last Publication Date: 02 Jul 2010 The Ministry of Health published the first national credentialling document in 2001. Its focus was on the credentialling of senior medical practitioners in secondary and tertiary…
Health in Justice: Improving the health of prisoners and their families and whānau Last Publication Date: 01 Jul 2010 The report outlines the nature and extent of prisoners' poor health, the contribution community health status makes to poor prisoner health and to imprisonment, the negative…