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Classroom Strategies for Teaching Children With Dyslexia

inaccurate word identification; spelling may also be affected (Gersons-Wolfensberger & Ruijssenaars, 1997). That is a rather bro...

Legal Issues & IEPs

an IEP. First of all, the IEP must include statements that offer an overview of the students current level of academic achievement...

A Summary of Five Acts

was the Great Depression and other conditions at the time that mandated the creation of social and economic programs. One has to r...

Four-Blocks Literacy Framework: Literature Review

literate, regardless of which approach is most compatible with their individual learning personalities"...The second basic princip...

Special Education Dispute Resolution

One retired elementary principal in Tennessee often spoke of a particularly troublesome parent who requested IEP review no less th...

"Golf Is Not A Game Of Perfect" - Overview And Message

focus on the negative. The struggle between positive and negative forces is a challenge that has besieged mankind since he ...

Mental Retardation, Impact on Education and the Curriculum

with fewer or no disabilities" (Disability definitions, 2005). In addition, they often have additional disabilities "including mov...

Counselor Education - Review Of Two Articles

so all the time. This diversity requires counselors to have a degree of multicultural competence if they are going to be helpful t...

Reading Disabilities

regarding a definition of RD that is widely acceptable (Siegel and Smythe, 2005). Researchers have not been able to agree on defi...

ADA Standards & A Local Restaurant

were secure handrails on each side of this access. The writer noted that the access on the other side of the building went up a st...

WorkSpace: Benefits For Students, Teachers And Parents

to focus more closely upon the sometimes subtle requirements students have where learning is concerned. Computers represent one o...

Evaluating Two Antipoverty Policies

discriminatory practices. The primary problem with fair housing is the fact that there exists a great deal of racial, gender and ...

Adult Learning Theories

the learner is involved in reflection. This essay will discuss several learning theories. The essay does not make any specific c...

Review of WOMAC Study

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

Postural Management Awarenss for People with Complex Disabilities Plan

As more and more individuals are now found in the everyday work environment and as more and more individuals are seen and accepted...

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 ...

Bottge's ' Reconceptualizing Mathematics Problem Solving For Low Achieving Students' - Summary

"Conceptual knowledge incorporates the other two forms of knowledge, but in unique and novel ways; it requires understanding in or...

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...

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...

Video Documentary of The Best Boy/The Best Man

capable while living in a group home. In the end, it is the cousin who does convince the rest of the family to allow him to live ...

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 "...

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...

Disability Models

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

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...

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 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...