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Barriers to Communication for Deaf Children

rather than concentrating on the disabled individual as having "deficits" within themselves (the medical model). They look at the ...

Reading Disabilities and Exceptional Children Interventions

events and the relations of those events. This simultaneously gains insight into the brains representation of language and into t...

Disability Models

of measuring this discrepancy are discussed later in this chapter under "Quantifying the Learning Disability" (Author 45). ...

UK Qualitative Study Proposal on Understanding the Effects of Sexual Abuse on Adult Learning Disabilities

services in the U.K. In 1997 the Lewisham Social Services described the protection of adults with learning disabilities as "a rela...

Higher Education and People with Physical Disabilities

the situations in the country. Literature Review The first article to be examined is one that discusses wheelchair sports in o...

Children with Disabilities and a Health Promotion Program

of developing healthy habits in children with the expectation that these habits will continue throughout life (2003). The high rat...

The Case Study of a Child in Need

in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...

Equalizing Aspects of Sport

special accommodations. In respect to race, sometimes there is reverse discrimination. Some believe that the black man has a nat...

Failing Grades and LD Students

the legal system that the best place for special education students - psychologically and otherwise - is within the mainstream sys...

Failing Grades and Learning Disabilities

category was first formulated in 1977. The phrase, "All student will learn to read by third grade" has become a rallying point in ...

Cognitive Processes and Reading Disabilities

phonological skills would be stronger predictors than exception words (Griffiths and Snowling, 2003). They also hypothesized that ...

Elementary Education and Difficulties in Writing and Reading

education, sometimes leaving little room for choice. This is true as teachers wrestle with their own autonomy and the school board...

Case Study on Personal Finance

Therefore, each needs sufficient life insurance initially to pay of their individuals and the joint liabilities. There is also the...

Learning and Metacognition

environment often involves a diversity of instructional strategies as well as "monitoring, analyzing, predicting, planning, evalua...

Disability Leave for Teachers, and Certification Revocation Circumstances

A worker may take twenty three-day leaves for treatments such as chemotherapy; however, covered employees may be required to use s...

Understanding ADHD

In the classroom setting, it is evident that many of these characteristics could pose significant educational challenges (Hartman,...

Gift or Curse of Disabilitie

they may never find partners or even be able to live independently" (Williams, 2001). Max, as a result of this condition, cannot s...

Fast ForWord Scientific Learning Software

as "b" and "d." It has long been known that "b" and "d" have presented young learners with difficulty, and for years it was belie...

Grades Seven through Twelve and Literacy That is Literature Based

materials are deemed important for student interest as well as student ability. The program includes teacher resources, such as s...

Education's Inclusive Theory and Disabilities

disabled and the non-disabled are to be best served. The educational arena presents a number of challenges in regard to the...

Gibbs' Reflective Model and a Reflective Learning Document

undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...

Empirical Literature on Mild Disabilities

pointing out that it is possible that the majority of the students nominated for the rejection category may not have disabilities ...

Assessment of Section 504 Regarding Students with Special Needs

school districts have a legal - if not ethical - obligation to provide scholastic modifications for special needs students so they...

Disability Defined

lack of some ability. If we examine the Merriam-Webster Dictionarys definitions we note the following: "1 a : the condition of b...

Special Ed and How It Has Evolved

Elementary and Secondary Schools Act (ESEA)" ("History," 2005). Of course, the term handicapped would eventually be deemed to be n...

The Right to Die as a Legal Issue

between the withdrawal of life-saving treatments and doctor-assisted suicide (Feinberg, 1998). In this case, three terminally ill ...

Policies on Aging and Developmental Disabilities

School, 2004). Ageing is a little more difficult to define -- according to Wordreference.com, ageing is considered to be "...

Video Documentary of The Best Boy/The Best Man

capable while living in a group home. In the end, it is the cousin who does convince the rest of the family to allow him to live ...

Overview of Treating Learning Disabilities with Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome

In five pages this research paper examines Dr. Helen Irlen's Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome and how colored lens can assist in the ...

Case of PARC v. Commonweatlh of Pennsylvania

The basic arguments presented suggest that attorneys for the plaintiffs found that the defendants had in fact applied specific sch...