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Educational Progression Among First-Grade Students

This paper addresses reading ability among first-grade students as demonstrated by the case of Janice Herron, a first-grade teache...

American Elementary School Special Education Students from Psychological and Legal Perspectives

the same critical exposure as other abled students. This concept certainly sounds as though it has inherent merit in that special...

Enabling the Disabled Through Computer Technology

In twenty pages the argument is presented that computer technology is presenting greater opportunities for people with disabilitie...

Connection Between Reading Problems and Language

In sixteen pages this paper considers the connection between language and reading disabilities. Fifteen sources are cited in the ...

Inclusion Schools' Administration

In five pages inclusion programs the specifically the roles of administrators are discussed particularly as they relate to definin...

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)....

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...

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...

Native Americans

For example, strong hostility existed between Native Americans and the Spanish because the Spanish prohibited the Indians from pra...

Article Critique/Suspected LD

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

Review of WOMAC Study

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

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...

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...

Learning Disabled Students and Mathematics

mathematics is strictly needed. By conducting such a study it was shown that learning-disabled students can indeed be taught such...

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...

Individuals with Disabilities and Sports

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

Article Review: How to Use Problem- Solving to Learn Algebra

This 5 page paper summarizes and analyzes a journal article entitled Effects of a Problem-Solving Strategy on the Introductory Alg...

Two Articles on Disabled Veterans

In six pages 2 articles pertaining to veterans with disabilities are compared with a discussion of post traumatic stress disorder ...

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...

Case Study of Children with Disabilities

In six pages this essay discusses a case study of a boy age eight with a diagnoses of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Developmental Disabilities

In five pages the existence of developmental disabilities in contemporary society is examined with examples of the positive impact...

Learning Potential Among Students With Learning Disabilities

This paper examines various learning styles, as well as different learning theory relating to the education of students with learn...

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...

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 ...