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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...

U.S. Immigration and Illness

female immigrants with matrons present but in 1914, two women doctors had been hired to conduct exams for female subjects (2000)....

Defining Characteristics of Learning Disabilities

disabilities and those who need special education or related services (U.S. Department of Education, 1997, p. 1; 2002). The defi...

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...

Analyzing the Letting Handicapped Babies Die Article

keep it alive" (Christian Answers to Moral Problems, 2002). Furthermore, in their article entitled "Letting Handicapped ...

Learning Disability Dyscalculia

other disabilities such as developmental arithmetic disorder, also known as dyscalculia which involves a child being unable to rec...

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...

Disabilities and Multicultural Factors

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

Criteria for Performance Appraisal

was - and is - critical that the child receive education appropriate to his condition. One author writes that the EAHCA "was inte...

Education on Learning Disabilities Through The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

[Gillys] fault" that her previous placements did not work out, it nevertheless leaves the readers and Gilly with the impression fr...

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...

Two Articles on Disabled Veterans

In six pages 2 articles pertaining to veterans with disabilities are compared with a discussion of post traumatic stress disorder ...

Learning and Metacognition

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

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...

The Impact of FDR's Disability on the Presidency

of both his campaign and presidency so that the vast majority of his adoring constituency had no idea how severe his condition act...

Public Schools, Religion, Drug Testing, and Children with Disabilities

In other words, the first amendment allows for prayer in school so long as educators and administrators do not lead the...

Learning Disabilities and Cooperative Learning

gone beyond Deweys premises (Brufee, 1995). In the current processes used in cooperative classrooms, students work in small groups...

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...

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...

Impact of Disabilities, Minority Women,

This research paper offers an overview of how disabilities affect the lives of minority women. Eight pages in length, eight source...

Mentally-Disabled Young Adults, STIs Education

and personal factors such as the level of disability, must be supported in order to help people with intellectual disability to re...

Summaries, Chapters 13 and 14

This paper offers an overview of chapters 13 and 14 in Human Exceptionality, School, Community, and Family by Michael L. Hardman, ...

Ideas for Disabilities

This essay discusses a book's ideas and tips for individuals who have certain disabilities, such as language disorders, intellectu...

Issues Concerning Children Identified as Gifted

There has been a great deal of research about gifted children over the last decade or so. They may not become eminent but they wil...

Mandatory Testing and Special Education Students

This research paper pertains to problems, challenges, and various issues that are associated with students with disabilities and m...

Disability Fraud in the United States

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at disability fraud. Senator testimony provides the basis for intervention recommendat...