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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 ...

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...

Disability Defined

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Disability Models

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

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 "...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Article Review on Occupational Therapy

comes from significant literature that has found: mothers of children with disabilities spend so much time in child care, they are...

Sutton v. United Airlines and ADA

the positions who were deemed to be more "normal." It also assured that those Americans with a disease which was thought to be too...

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...

Cognitive Processes and Reading Disabilities

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

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...

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 ...

Equalizing Aspects of Sport

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

Behavioral Issues Among Students With Learning Disabilities

could accommodate virtually every child in class. Thankfully, it eventually became obvious that the problem with overwhelming num...

Multicultural Education and the Involvement of Parents

distinguish between problems arising from emotional disorders and LD. Efforts to classify children so that they can be taug...

Individuals with Disabilities and Sports

In five pages this paper discusses the participation of individuals with disabilities from ethical and legal perspectives. Eight ...

Adults with Disabilities and Discrimination

continues to convey disdain for disabled adults speaks to the issue of unmitigated social intolerance. One of the many ways in wh...

Defining Characteristics of Learning Disabilities

disabilities and those who need special education or related services (U.S. Department of Education, 1997, p. 1; 2002). The defi...

LD Testing

deal to work situations, it also affects special education. What it had done is to change, from a legal perspective, the notion o...

U.S. Immigration and Illness

female immigrants with matrons present but in 1914, two women doctors had been hired to conduct exams for female subjects (2000)....

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Special Education Transition Programs

21 to 64 year-old age group who have severe disabilities have even higher rates of unemployment - 73.9 percent (Hagner, McGahie an...