Sentences with phrase «of multiple disadvantage»

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS INTRODUCTION The 2002 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) is a multi-dimensional social survey of Australia's Indigenous population designed to enable analysis of the interrelationship of social circumstances and outcomes, including the exploration of multiple disadvantage, that may be experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

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Inclusion criteria: women admitted to the ward between 26 July and 18 October 2010 who lived in the 3 most disadvantaged postcode area quintiles for the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation in 2009 and who were breastfeeding.

The programme has targeted areas according to measures of relative disadvantage including the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD), free school meals and the proportion of children under four in households receiving income related benefits.

[3]: 36 [32]: 65 [15]: 21 A notable disadvantage of PR is that, as its multiple - member districts are made larger, this link is weakened.

«In many cases, the tool presented multiple possible fixes for a problem, but didn't give programmers much information about the relevant advantages and disadvantages of each fix,» Murphy - Hill says.

Some children are at risk because of developmental delays or special learning needs; some begin school at a disadvantage because of their limited mastery of English or their socioeconomically impoverished living circumstances; and some, including some Indigenous children, experience multiple forms of disadvantage.

Education policy needs to take account of the differing experiences that children have in their communities and at home, and not assume that schools alone can overcome the multiple and significant challenges posed by poverty and social disadvantage.

Last April, Public Advocates, one of the civil - rights groups that sued the state in 2010, said that multiple school districts» plans showed a «near universal failure» to identify and justify expenditures of dollars whose purpose was to benefit disadvantaged students.

The UCAS Multiple Equality Measure shows that 1 in 4 of the most advantaged quintile of English 18 year olds enter highly - selective universities compared to only 1 in 50 pupils from the most disadvantaged quintile.

In WSI schools that effectively implement arts integration, a higher percentage of economically disadvantaged students score «Proficient or Above» when compared to all students (not just economically disadvantaged students) at the district and state level, across multiple grade levels, and across multiple subject areas on standardized tests.

Instead of relying on intelligence and achievement test scores solely for identification, multiple criteria would be used, including more non-traditional measures such as observing students interacting with a variety of learning opportunities (Passow & Frasier, 1996) it is a belief of many in the field of gifted education that new conceptions of giftedness and a new paradigm for identifying and selecting students will help minority and disadvantaged students become more represented in gifted programs (VanTassel - Baska, Patton, & Prillaman, 1991; Ford, 1996).

Many schools serve large numbers of disadvantaged students, but Children's First Academy is unique: One hundred percent of the students and families are at the poverty line and 40 percent are homeless, which includes students in shelters, transitional housing and multiple families living under one roof.

In addition to learning about multiple tools and experiencing them firsthand, preservice teachers need to think through the advantages and disadvantages of the tools they select (Swenson et al., 2005).

CCSA has conducted extensive data simulations over multiple years, which have confirmed that charter schools of all grade level and school type are broadly distributed across the Accountability Framework and that the Minimum Criteria for Renewal do not unfairly treat schools serving traditionally disadvantaged students.

Main Advantages And Disadvantages Of Buying Essays Online Nowadays, modern students almost have no time to complete all multiple assignments that they get at the Universities and Colleges.

Disadvantages: Touchscreen requires multiple presses and has ghost touch issue at times, lower resolution screen (150 ppi), stylus feels like writing on slick plastic, noticeably heavier despite being the smallest of the three, glass screen less durable, stylus required for operation.

While some buyers may be able to negotiate a Seller's Concession as part of the purchase price, concessions are not guaranteed and may put you at a disadvantage in Seller's Markets where there are multiple offers from prospective buyers who will make offers and pay their own closing costs.

The main disadvantage of this approach is that your transaction data is split across multiple worksheets, making it more difficult to create yearly reports.

of reasons, they're increasingly secretive about their own production capacity, and / or mostly prefer to now rely on contract producers, and c) they trade at a multiple of Russia / Ukraine producers, despite their growth & cost disadvantage.

Multiple maps bring to life a variety of terrains which can work to your advantage or disadvantage.

Further, distrust of the justice system is magnified for individuals who experience multiple and intersecting disadvantages arising from characteristics including gender, poverty, race, Indigeneity, sexual orientation, age and / or disability.

Multiple and overlapping markers of historic disadvantage intersect to reinforce power dynamics.

Attorneys for both plaintiffs and defendants will find comprehensive coverage of such matters as: the advantages and disadvantages of suits based on strict liability, negligence and breach of warranty; the use of state consumer protection statutes; the duty to warn and its innumerable ramifications; the liability of the manufacturers, retailers and other potential defendants in the distribution chain; successor liability; federal preemption of common law claims; monitoring product safety during design, manufacturing and distribution; causation theories in actions involving multiple manufacturers; product misuse and alteration; the elements of proof needed in an action; recovery for economic loss; punitive damages; and the government contractor defense.

One disadvantage of these Group Life insurance plans is that they generally cost much more than if you had bought the same policy through an independent agent who can comparison shop multiple companies for you.

However, the biggest disadvantage is the cap on maximum sum assured as a multiple of annual premium.

Likewise, different languages use different ways of communicating — tones, words, gestures — with different kinds of irregularities — letters with multiple sounds, verbs that are conjugated in illogical ways — and so a child lacking in some skilled might be seriously disadvantaged in one place and not at all in another.

Experiences of past bodies have highlighted the advantages and disadvantages of a National Indigenous Representative Body undertaking such functions and in particular the tensions arising from undertaking multiple combinations of these roles and functions.

Experiences of past representative bodies, however, have highlighted the advantages, disadvantages and challenges of carrying out some functions and the tensions that result from undertaking multiple roles and functions.

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

[242] Not only does this mean the Minister's attention is not focussed on Indigenous affairs and the task of directing the whole of government approach to address Indigenous disadvantage, it also means that this Minister has multiple responsibilities at the Cabinet table.

While the proposed reforms are critical to reducing the inequitable burden of licensing sanctions and incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, these changes will not support people to overcome the multiple barriers to accessing a driver licence and the resultant transport disadvantage.

Program evaluation has supported this multifaceted approach in multiple countries and settings.83 Analyses by Nobel Prize — winning economist James Heckman reveal that early prevention activities targeted toward disadvantaged children have high rates of economic returns, much higher than remediation efforts later in childhood or adult life.84 For example, the Perry Preschool Program showed an average rate of return of $ 8.74 for every dollar invested in early childhood education.85 Targeted interventions foster protective factors, including responsive, nurturing, cognitively stimulating, consistent, and stable parenting by either birth parents or other consistent adults.

It is in the exercise of this practical power that I believe Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can address the multiple and trans - generational layers of disadvantage and trauma confronting us in our communities.

Let me outline what I have said, and I believe this is crucial to addressing the multiple layers of disadvantage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities:

All of these outcomes are linked by the theme that they are more frequent among children and young people who have been exposed to adverse childhood and environments characterized by multiple social, educational, economic, and related disadvantages.1 — 3

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11

We also counted how many of these disadvantages children have and focused on children that face multiple problems.

Conclusions The multiple disadvantages predicted by childhood ADHD well into adulthood began in adolescence, without increased onsets of new disorders after 20 years of age.

Through our active participation in our communities, and through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples asserting standards that are appropriate to achieve true self - determination, I believe we can address the multiple and trans - generational layers of disadvantage and trauma confronting us in our communities.

Exposure: Area - level socioeconomic disadvantage (e.g. Index of Multiple Deprivation, Carstairs - Morris, Townsend scores).

This confirms the idea that when affordability is attained across the population through universal health insurance, multiple factors such as parenting, parent's mental health, neighborhood characteristics, parent's background in terms of disadvantage, and other established risk factors continue to play a role in determining patterns of health care for children.