NEWPORT — An outdoor graduation ceremony that started with a blue-sky day ended in a drizzly rain as the 2023 graduates of North Country Union High School celebrated the school’s
Helping shelter dogs get to their forever homes
By Nancy Shohet West Globe Correspondent,Updated April 29, 2021, 1:01 p.m.
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One of the shelter dogs, Joey, at Baypath Humane Society, which is trying to find more foster homes for the animals.Suzanne Krieter/Globe staff
Leslie Doyle has never been a dog owner. For a long time, she fulfilled her need to be around animals by volunteering at Baypath Humane Society of Hopkinton as a dog-walker.
Then one day the shelter manager confided that she was particularly worried about a small dog who shivered and barked a lot. She asked Doyle to take him home for the weekend.
Can kids with autism and ADHD learn more effectively by playing tabletop games?
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Children play a card game about animal extinctions.
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Tabletop games could transform the way children and teenagers who are on the autism spectrum or have ADHD learn in classrooms, a board game designer has suggested.
And a Queensland University of Technology professor in child development and education agrees that using educationally targeted board games and other tabletop games could improve learning outcomes for children who are neuro-diverse.
While teachers often use games as part of the education process, especially in the lower years of primary school, Brisbane-based
How dark world of baby farming was exposed in sensational trial that brought lasting change
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The case led to a shake-up of public health care and child protection. Above, a nurse with babies in the Perth Public Hospital, 1919.
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For several weeks in 1907, the Australian public was gripped by a sensational trial in Perth that exposed the dark practice of baby farming.
While it was a trial over the death of one infant, proceedings revealed that 37 babies had died in the care of one woman, Alice Mitchell, over a six-year period, leading to headlines suggesting she might be Australia s worst serial killer.