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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 "...

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...

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...

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 ...

Failing Grades and LD Students

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

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...

Individuals with Disabilities and Sexual Abuse

In five pages this literature review discusses sexual abuse among people with disabilities in a consideration of disclosure, treat...

Disabilities and Perceptions About Them Shaped by Literature and Cinema

In eight pages this paper discusses how perceptions and attitudes regarding individuals with disabilities have been influenced by ...

The Conditions of Attention Deficit Disorder

In seven pages this paper discusses the disorder in terms of definition, symptoms, prevalence, diagnostics, treatment, and the pos...

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...

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...

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...

Disability Models

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

Shareholder and Business Imposition of Government Regulations

In five pages this paper examines how businesses are regulated by the government in matters considering the wealth of shareholders...

Students with Learning Disabilities Journal Article Reviewed

In four pages this paper examines the study and its implications that was chronicled in the journal article 'The Influence of affe...

The Handicapped and the Film 'Edward Scissorhands'

Prejudices and bigoted attitudes are the issues discussed in this 5 page paper that uses an analysis of Edward Scissorhands to rev...

Animal Assisted Therapy and the Relationship Between Dogs and Humans

emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...

Learning Disability and Attention Deficit Disorder

In a paper consisting of six pages the behavioral issues connected with ADD are discussed along with the ways in which learning di...

Analyzing Some Programs of Affirmative Action

In five pages differences and similarities are explored among affirmative action programs dealing with disabilities, race, and sex...

Nonverbal Communication and Emotion

This paper looks at the relationship between nonverbal communication and human emotions. The author addresses gender issues as we...

Special Education Teaching and the Impact of Technology

In five pages this paper examines teachers of students with learning disabilities in terms of how technology can be of assistance ...

Learning Disabilities Identification and Ethnic Minorities

In three pages identifying learning disabilities as they pertain to ethnic minorities such as Hispanic students are considered in ...

True Cause of Dyslexia Determination

In twenty pages current research is applied to the topic of dyslexia and its learning disability status with the proposal of a sch...

Letter Reversal, Dyslexia, and Learning Disabilities

determine if the use of upper case letters as a reading and writing support technique can improve reading and writing processes fo...

LD Definition and Characteristics

In six pages this research paper defines learning disabilities, discusses its characteristics, how it is diagnosed, its incidence,...