This chapter offers practicing educators' experiences and perspectives of equity in education. The authors explore personal issues within the current realm of education (preschool through graduate levels) in an attempt to offer insight into some of the inequities we experience today in the classroom and beyond. By engaging in this conversation, the authors attempt to learn from prior experience…
Children with a cleft palate ([+ or -] cleft lip; CP[+ or -]L) can have difficulties communicating and participating in daily life, yet speech-language pathologists typically focus on speech production during routine assessments. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Children and Youth Version (ICF-CY; World Health Organization, 2007) provides a framework for h…
For years, Algerian public organisations have shown many dysfunctions. In this context, management methods used in the private sector were gradually transposed to the public sector, which was considered inefficient, rigid and costly, thus contributing to the emergence of the "new public management" or "new public management". It is under the impulse of the new public management (NPM) that refle…