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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...

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). ...

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...

Failing Grades and LD Students

the legal system that the best place for special education students - psychologically and otherwise - is within the mainstream sys...

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 ...

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...

Equalizing Aspects of Sport

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

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...

Empirical Literature on Mild Disabilities

pointing out that it is possible that the majority of the students nominated for the rejection category may not have disabilities ...

Gibbs' Reflective Model and a Reflective Learning Document

undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...

Grades Seven through Twelve and Literacy That is Literature Based

materials are deemed important for student interest as well as student ability. The program includes teacher resources, such as s...

Assessment of Section 504 Regarding Students with Special Needs

school districts have a legal - if not ethical - obligation to provide scholastic modifications for special needs students so they...

Disability Defined

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

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 "...

Analyzing the 'Health Visiting and Refugee Families' Article

the processes for data analysis appropriate to answer the research question? The research question, or the purpose of the study, i...

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...

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...

Family Violence and Making the Family Unit Stronger

in quelling situations of domestic violence and child abuse. II. Domestic Violence Domestic violence is a serious problem an...

Proposing Evaluating the Relationship Between Stereotyping and Academic Performance of Students with Disabilities

The processes through which they do so are standard in terms of physiology but vary according to such factors as the type of stimu...

Students with Disabilities and Full Inclusion in Texas Schools

entries. RESULTS OF FINDINGS The testing gains for each of the 111 schools that were studied and are practicing full inclusion o...

3 Articles on Public Relations Issues Between Schools and Communities Summarized

is all too often overlooked (Ediger, 2001). When courteous responses between school workers is not relayed, the public at large w...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

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...