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Relatively little well controlled, empirical research has examined the problems, experiences, functional limitations and coping strategies of late-deafened individuals. The present paper summarizes, integrates and evaluates the literature on adventitious deafness. Several issues are explored in detail, including: a) a comparison of congenital and acquired deafness; b) a critical review of the literature investigating the psychiatric problems experienced by late-deafened individuals; c) an examination of the effects of acquired deafness on identity and personal control; and d) a consideration of adventitious deafness among the elderly.

ABSTRACTAlthough teen pregnancy is on the rise in Canada, and while adolescent mothering in general has received considerable recent attention from researchers, there is a paucity of information about the particular experiences of young women who become mothers while in government care. Emerging out of a study guided by a grounded theory methodology to address this knowledge gap, this paper examines the experiences and perspectives of government‐based social workers who work with young mothers in/from care. Our findings indicated that social workers reflect prevailing middle class values, including norms about 'good' and 'bad' parenting, and centred around the belief that adolescent pregnancy is, in and of itself, bad. One of the most significant ramifications of workers' values was their belief about the inevitability of 'the cycle': of children in care begetting children who ultimately came into care. Ironically, though workers and young mothers were both preoccupied by the concept of 'the cycle', and each were determined to break it, the two groups had very different ideas about what the cycle was all about and what perpetuated it. Unfortunately, this disjunction in perspectives, along with major recent shifts in the direction of child welfare policy and practice and related constraints in the resources at workers' disposal, conjoined to create significant barriers to what workers and young women both recognized as supportive practice with youth in care.

Rutman, D., Poole, N., Hume, S., Hubberstey, C., & Van Bibber, M. (2014). Building a framework for evaluation of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder prevention and support programs: A collaborative Canadian project. The International Journal Of Alcohol And Drug Research, 3(1), 81-89. doi:10.7895/ijadr.v3i1.122Aims: This article discusses a Canadian project that is designed to identify promising evaluation methods and create common evaluation frameworks for FASD prevention programs serving pregnant women and mothers, and FASD supportive intervention programs serving youth and adults living with FASD. A social determinants of health perspective guided the project.Design: The project has employed a mixed-methods approach including a literature search, documentary review, and an iterative set of consultations with program providers, program managers, government managers and funders, researchers, and evaluators in the context of their work across Canada and internationally.Results: The project's processes led to the development of three visual "maps" comprised of concentric rings that depict theoretical foundations; activities and approaches; formative outcomes; and participant, community and systemic outcomes. The three visual frameworks depict evaluation of 1) FASD prevention programs; 2) FASD support programs; and 3) FASD programs in Aboriginal communities.Conclusions: The development of visual maps to depict common evaluation frameworks promotes individual and collective action towards applying the frameworks on the part of community-based services and governments across Canada, on the service and systemic levels. Program providers, researchers, and system planners have indicated that the maps have wide-ranging applications.