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Learning Disabilities in Young Children

disability is limited proficiency in English, or "lack of instruction in reading or math" (Guidelines, 1999). The guidelines also ...

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...

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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

Teaching LD Learners

receive from being constant advocates for the needs of their children. As a result, No Child Left Behind has created a call for c...

Orenstein's Smart but Stuck

(2001) draws on some of the personal experiences of those she interviewed for the book, providing the reader with a great deal of ...

Special Needs Learners

frequently present in the case of individuals with severe disabilities, and multiple disabilities can include physical disabilitie...

Setting Appropriate Goals for Children with Disabilities

reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...

Disability Defined

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

Training and Development in the Commercial Environment

the years, to return to a high reliance model would be difficult and would undermine motivation as adults would feel they were bei...

Applying The Medical Model And Social Model Of Disability

The classical model of disability is the medical model; this is the model which is highly aligned with the World Health Organizati...

Experiential and Reflective Learning - A Presentation

A key skill for those pursuing a career in leadership is the ability to learn. This paper is a presentation looking at the experie...

Students with Disabilities, Instructional Approaches

This research paper describes the special education and disability studies approaches in regards to teaching students with disabil...

Online Learning Issues

The purpose of Online learning, or, e-learning is to provide knowledge and enhance skills. There are many advantages to e-learning...

Word Processing Programs Support Cognitive Learning

Word processing programs support the cognitive learning theory by helping students learn how to edit their documents from beginnin...

Linda Wasmer Andrews' Hiring People with Intellectual Disabilities

to that term. And, the author also notes that intellectual disability is a term that seems kind of vague as it could be misinterpr...

Physical Education Class Reading Instruction

a basic knowledge of the alphabet and math; however, by either simplifying or enhancing the content of these strategies, they can ...

'The Pardoner's Tale' in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

In five pages the Pardoner and his characteristics are examined. There are no other sources listed....

Independence and Environment

In ten pages this paper discusses how the independence of people with disabilities is limited by their environment in a considerat...

Learning as Adults

This essay begins with a statement about what the writer expects to learn in the adult education program and whether the writer sh...

Requirements of a New Leader

must include some of the significant figures who have been involved in efforts that support personal accountability. Former Presi...

A Report on a Master Student

the learning process that are both demonstrated through the elements that determine her role as a master student and factors that ...

Civilian Review Boards and Internal Affairs

This research paper offers a discussion of the characteristics of civilian review boards and internal affairs as methods for addre...

Evaluating UK Fire and Rescue Service's Disability and Race Policy

for many others it will not. Severe dyslexia is classified as a disability under this act (Dyslexia Association, 2004). If we are ...

Self Esteem and Disabled Individuals

awareness of the problems encountered by people with disabilities (Freedman and Fesko, 1996). The ADA represented a considerable b...