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Human Resources Management and the Impact of ADA

(2003). Also, in order to be considered disabled, the individual must have a record of such an impairment or is regarded as having...

Teaching Reading with the Fernald Method

channel, thus, giving all students the opportunity to learn through whichever channel is their strength. This approach has childre...

Disabilities and Multicultural Factors

nations resources. Minorities with disabilities, in particular, have been the most disenfranchised. It is time we bring them into ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act

with interpreters free of charge under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Knight, 2003). Yet, that is just one smal...

ADA and its Problems

July 26, 1992 ("Facts About," 1997). It prohibits private employers, as well as state and local governments, employment agencies a...

Criteria for Performance Appraisal

was - and is - critical that the child receive education appropriate to his condition. One author writes that the EAHCA "was inte...

Education on Learning Disabilities Through The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

[Gillys] fault" that her previous placements did not work out, it nevertheless leaves the readers and Gilly with the impression fr...

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...

Learning Disabilities and Cooperative Learning

gone beyond Deweys premises (Brufee, 1995). In the current processes used in cooperative classrooms, students work in small groups...

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...

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)....

Literature Review of the Topic Letter Reversal in Children with Severe Learning Disabilities

the genetic inability to connect phonemes with written symbols. A subspecies of dyslexia however embraces a simpler type of visua...

Learning Disability Dyscalculia

other disabilities such as developmental arithmetic disorder, also known as dyscalculia which involves a child being unable to rec...

The Impact of FDR's Disability on the Presidency

of both his campaign and presidency so that the vast majority of his adoring constituency had no idea how severe his condition act...

Public Schools, Religion, Drug Testing, and Children with Disabilities

In other words, the first amendment allows for prayer in school so long as educators and administrators do not lead the...

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 "...

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). ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...