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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 ...

Equalizing Aspects of Sport

special accommodations. In respect to race, sometimes there is reverse discrimination. Some believe that the black man has a nat...

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...

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 ...

Jehovah's Witnesses and Shunning

of their faith. During the 1970s, the Watchtower shows that JWs leadership took a more conciliatory stance towards shunning family...

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 ...

Jewish Literature and the Jewish Family's Decline

family. He reveals that the stereotypical image of the money hungry Jew is in a sense a reality, that desperation can turn even th...

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 "...

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...

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...

Nursing and Family's Role

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

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). ...

Family Stress and Family Systems Theories

as separation and the breakdown of subsystems. This will continue until a new point of equilibrium is reached (Ackerman, 1985). ...

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...

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...

Understanding ADHD

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

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...

Learning and Metacognition

environment often involves a diversity of instructional strategies as well as "monitoring, analyzing, predicting, planning, evalua...

Cognitive Processes and Reading Disabilities

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

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...

Teaching Reading with the Fernald Method

channel, thus, giving all students the opportunity to learn through whichever channel is their strength. This approach has childre...

Effect of ADA on Small Businesses

their feet, Premier maintains three handicapped parking spaces outside the front door. The gym is cramped; parking capacity is ap...

American Families v. Chinese Families

the woman more "desirable" and therefore more likely to marry and not be a burden on her family any longer (Family Structure, 2003...

Disabilities and Multicultural Factors

nations resources. Minorities with disabilities, in particular, have been the most disenfranchised. It is time we bring them into ...

Nursing Research Article 'Predicting Family Health in Families of Young Adults with Severe Mental Illness' Reviewed

new research is needed in the area. The style of the literature review is appropriate in that the author divides it into we...

Successes and Failures of the ADA

Unfortunately, the greatest hurdle we have to face in regard to overcoming barriers in the workplace is the hurdle of peoples atti...

The Americans with Disabilities Act

with interpreters free of charge under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Knight, 2003). Yet, that is just one smal...

ADA and its Problems

July 26, 1992 ("Facts About," 1997). It prohibits private employers, as well as state and local governments, employment agencies a...