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Managed Care and Disabilities Models of Medi Cal

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

Application of Disability Models in Education

This is a model that does not accept that there is anything wrong with society and the there is no acknowledgement of any need for...

Disability Models

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

Applying The Medical Model And Social Model Of Disability

The classical model of disability is the medical model; this is the model which is highly aligned with the World Health Organizati...

Psychological and Physical Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act

act notes that "reasonable accommodations" must be made to provide disable individuals with equal opportunities (Legal Information...

Developmental Disabilities' Issues Examined

In six pages this paper discusses guardianship, supplemental benefits, social services, social role valorization, normalization, h...

Campus Disabilities' Sensitivity Awareness

In this paper consisting of seven pages the need for programs of sensitivity awareness is discussed and includes an examination of...

Developmental Disabilities' Service Enhancements

effort is the level of exertion applied to a situation, either temporarily or over time" (Clark, 1997, pp. 69-79). In-scho...

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 ...

Disabilities and Discrimination

In ten pages disabilities are considered in the forms of mental illness and dwarfism in a discussion of discrimination against peo...

Article on LD Students and How to Teach Them to Make Decisions

The problem is, hiding the disabilities means the students tend to hide self-awareness of themselves, meaning it can be difficult ...

UK, Work, and Disabilities

employer discrimination. Ironically there does appear to be greater gender equality in terms of work, and discrimination among the...

Families, Handicapped Children, and the Findings of Turnbull and Turnbull

In this paper consisting of seven pages this paper examines family integration of children with disabilities according to the find...

Identifying a Suitable Organizational Diagnosis Model

assessed in the context of Microsofts acquisition of Skype. The first model to be assessed is the Force field Analysis of Kurt L...

Five Models of Personality as it Relates to Health

most advantageously. Neither is there any consistency in the types of personality and coping responses that least effectively dea...

Family Therapy - Three Different Models

Batesons cybernetics model (Niolan, 2002). Tucker (2002, PG) notes that to Bateson familial problems exist in a system of units a...

Small Business And Ada Employer Regulations

New Freedom initiative that "seeks to partner with small business to increase the percentage of individuals with disabilities in t...

Article Critique/Suspected LD

the pre-test due to differences in cultural background make significant improvement, but children with "true language impairment" ...

Relationship Between Language-Based And Learning Disabilities

Beyond that, however, is the fact that any student who is struggling with language will not be able to read and write as well as a...

Access to Services for People with Disabilities

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

Handicapped Parking

that are close to access to the building designated as Handicapped Parking. These spaces should be eight-feet wide and have a wide...

Americans with Disabilities Act

disabilities, is having an environment wherein a person with a particular disability could work. For example, a blind person may r...

Memory and Learning

These problems have a neurological base. They can interfere in learning basic skills, such as reading, and they can also impede hi...

Neurological Issues And Learning Disabilities

relationship of the brain to learning has been studied a great deal among twins (Simmons, 2006). Some studies have shown that iden...

Linda Wasmer Andrews' Hiring People with Intellectual Disabilities

to that term. And, the author also notes that intellectual disability is a term that seems kind of vague as it could be misinterpr...

Understanding the Disabled and Disabilities

beauty, wealth and status, or they can symbolize aspects of society that people would just as soon forget, such as with physical d...

Overview of Dyslexia

the last 30 years (Singleton, 2000). Essentially, making positive diagnosis of dyslexia involves establishing that: 1. The childs ...

Physical Education Class Reading Instruction

a basic knowledge of the alphabet and math; however, by either simplifying or enhancing the content of these strategies, they can ...

Faust, Dimitrovsky, and Shacht's Naming Difficulties in Children with Dyslexia

subject population of 30 students, 15 of whom have been diagnosed with dyslexia and 15 typically functioning peers in Grades 3-4 a...

Evaluating UK Fire and Rescue Service's Disability and Race Policy

for many others it will not. Severe dyslexia is classified as a disability under this act (Dyslexia Association, 2004). If we are ...