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Special Education - Case Study

a diverse classroom as well as students with learning disabilities. Parent involvement was another issue mentioned. 2. Speak wit...

Dropout Prevention for Youth with Disabilities

1998). In order to keep young people in school, they have to be engaged in learning and further, see a reason for continuing. The ...

Review of WOMAC Study

a measure of internal consistency. Items in an instrument are considered to have internal consistency, that is, similar constructs...

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...

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 ...

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 "...

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...

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...

Disability Defined

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

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 ...

Accommodations for Disability

should be accompanied by a synchronized text transcript (closed captioning) and audio announcements should also have a synchronize...

Disabled Students

prevent those from receiving the special attention they need. Contrary to that opinion is how full inclusion will serve to drasti...

Workforce Transitioning

considerable amount of both federal and state legislation has been passed that addresses the transition process. The Individuals w...

An Overview, IDEA

This paper describes the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the various components it encompasses. Three pages...

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...

Disability Models

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

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...

Equalizing Aspects of Sport

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

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...

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 ...

1990's ADA

any new structures being built and alterations to current structures to comply with the Act (The ADA: A Brief Overview, 2002). The...

Workers' Compensation and America's Federal Law

and 1995 the service providing sector underwent a tremendous growth and the percent of U.S. employment attributed to the manufactu...

Students with Disabilities and Full Inclusion in Texas Schools

entries. RESULTS OF FINDINGS The testing gains for each of the 111 schools that were studied and are practicing full inclusion o...

Proposing Evaluating the Relationship Between Stereotyping and Academic Performance of Students with Disabilities

The processes through which they do so are standard in terms of physiology but vary according to such factors as the type of stimu...

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...