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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...research with 99 families, of whom almost three-quarters had intended for their children to be school educated. Parental expectations of schools Parents’ hopes for their children reflected three particular themes: Initial ambitions in the context of a typical path through primary to secondary school, with around one-fifth mentioning progression to college or university....
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...researched in the psychological and sociological disciplines. Those who live and work with children can draw on a wide spread of knowledge for assessing and meeting children’s needs across a range of areas: physical and developmental needs cognitive and learning needs social and environmental needs emotional and affectional needs behavioural presentation. Government...
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How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does COVID-19 affect cancer treatment?

...researchers working at The Open University answer cancer-related questions about the new coronavirus in this series of articles...Who are we? We are cancer researchers working at The Open University. Our daily job involves identifying and testing new therapies and new diagnostic technologies for cancers. For this reason, we are regularly in contact with cancer charities...
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Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...Research has shown that he was either Welsh or from the north of England with others claiming he may have come from Bath in Somerset. Irish identity and stories of migration Just like Saint Patrick’s identity, Irish identity itself is not wholly green and crystal clear, with rising tensions regarding immigration, emigration and what constitutes Irishness post pandemic....
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From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models
Science, Maths & Technology

From intuition to inference: how experts inform Bayesian models

...research must rely on incomplete and evolving data. At the same time, experts often possess valuable domain knowledge. A clinician may draw on experience with similar treatments, while a climate scientist may understand long-term physical patterns and constraints. Even when experts cannot provide precise numerical answers, they can often describe what values are realistic...
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The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'
Health, Sports & Psychology

The ageing brain: 'use it or lose it'

...research...We start ageing the moment we are born. The process of ageing is demonstrated more significantly when we reach a certain age, the usual benchmark being 65+, but our ageing starts much sooner, and the way ageing demonstrates itself when we are over 65 depends on the decisions we have been making over our life span. The age associated decline is both physical and...
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Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Voluntary Gravedigging in the West of Ireland

...research, I found that on one level, the practice is culturally invisible to the people who do it. Initially, some could not understand why I wanted to talk with them about a purely practical task. In my research diary, I recall Cillian saying: Danny, what is there to tell. If a neighbour dies, I dig a grave for them – what is there to tell? Tim thought the men who dig...
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Bias in ADHD and autism diagnosis
Education & Development

Bias in ADHD and autism diagnosis

...Research samples and diagnostic criteria have, and still continue to, reflect this group, thus, shaping expectations around who is neurodivergent. This has produced a ‘typical’ profile of the hyperactive boy who cannot sit still, the autistic child with highly visible special interests, and outward visible behaviours. However, neurodivergence is not experienced in the...
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