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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 ...

Disability Models

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

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...

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...

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...

Sutton v. United Airlines and ADA

the positions who were deemed to be more "normal." It also assured that those Americans with a disease which was thought to be too...

Cognitive Processes and Reading Disabilities

phonological skills would be stronger predictors than exception words (Griffiths and Snowling, 2003). They also hypothesized that ...

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...

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...

Disability Leave for Teachers, and Certification Revocation Circumstances

A worker may take twenty three-day leaves for treatments such as chemotherapy; however, covered employees may be required to use s...

Understanding ADHD

In the classroom setting, it is evident that many of these characteristics could pose significant educational challenges (Hartman,...

Gift or Curse of Disabilitie

they may never find partners or even be able to live independently" (Williams, 2001). Max, as a result of this condition, cannot s...

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...

Balancing Policy and Law in Human Resources

Human resource management is structured not just around company policies but also around state and federal laws. The XYX Organiza...

No Child Left Behind Act and IDEA

was signed into law on January 8, 2002 by President Bush. The bill was initiated by the president and written as a bi-partisan act...

3 Film Reviews/Psychosocial Issues of Disability

in his dysfunctional body and she reads him constantly, also hiring round-the-clock nurses and other readers (Changnon, 1995). W...

Preparing Children to Take Music Lessons

in reaching deaf and blind children who would otherwise tune out. When used to help children learn basic skills, it is referred to...

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 ...

Becoming a Nursing Advocate

enzymes whose function is to break down certain cellular materials so that they can be moved out of the cells (National MPS Societ...

Application of Disability Models in Education

This is a model that does not accept that there is anything wrong with society and the there is no acknowledgement of any need for...

Plan for the Development and Operation of a Center to Provide Healthcare and Educational Services for Mentally Disabled Children

the vast majority; 83.2% are not attending school (El-Hazmi et al, 2003). It is generally accepted that education is a key elem...

Turtles Can Fly, An Iraqi Film

dealers in the nearby town. Hyenkov refuses to be intimidated by Satellite and head butts him, knocking him to the ground, making ...

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...

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...

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...