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Threlkeld, Aubry D. "Dyslexia as Disability." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:16461049.
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These three qualitative studies describe and analyze how and when young dyslexic people manage disability labels in talk. The theoretical framework informing this study includes post-structuralist approaches to analyzing talk about disability (Tremain, 2002, 2006; Goodley, 2011) and on-going debates about using discourses to model the relationship between impairment, disability and culture inside and outside social model of disability (Hughes & Paterson, 1997; Corker, 1998; Allan, 1999; Shakespeare, 2000; Corker & Shakespeare, 2002; Grue, 2011) and resistance against ableism generally (Gabel & Peters, 2004). The research design involved semi-structured interviews of twenty-six students with dyslexia (Seidman, 2006) who attended a specialized high school and a review of three documentary films. The three articles detail different approaches to the same phenomenon of navigating and describing dyslexia.
The first article engages a primary analysis of how new discourses of the gifted dyslexic brain include persisting notions of a broken brain using Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) in educational documentary film. The second study reframes existing studies of conceptual metaphor among dyslexics moving discussion beyond dyslexia as a barrier to a dynamic range of metaphors including dyslexia as a journey, puzzle and even as existence. Contemporary studies of conceptual metaphor and disability continue to reveal how disabled students navigate the differences between impairment and disability. The third article relates long-standing theories of learning differences to the lack of claiming disability among dyslexic students. By exploring passing as able-bodied as a phenomenon, I theorize how schools, even specialized settings, as ableist institutions oppress, silence and foreclose the possibilities of group identity. This research contributes to discursive approaches to understanding dyslexia as disability and connects disabled identities in talk to work with dyslexic students in schools. Suggestions for future research include understanding neurodiversity movements in relationship to learning disabilities, continuing to examine conceptual metaphor use among dyslexics to build out a typology and the political and economic roots of the discourses of learning differently.<br>Human Development and Education
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Marks, Lori J. "Moderator & Discussant, Disability Services/Human Resources Disability Awareness Question & Answer Best Practices Panel." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3697.
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Reichart, Marion R. "Connecting disability equality to citizenship education." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2007. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/8202/.
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This thesis argues that the invisibility of disabled people in the Citizenship curriculum is no longer tenable. In analogue to race and sex discrimination, I use legal case analyses, together with empirically framed case studies within an international perspective, to systematically explore different aspects of citizenship. Citizenship elements range from ‘legal’, ‘constitutional context’, ‘political participation’, ‘human rights’, ‘community’, ‘socio-economic’ to ‘identity and belonging’. Through a mash up methodology of running voices of disabled people themselves over various themes of citizenship, the contributions, barriers and achievements of disabled people are embedded in the analysis. This includes often apparently conflicting or contradictory voices and cross cultural discussions. Disabled people’s experiences are constitutive of, not additional to, citizenship values. The work confirms that a paradigm shift is taking place in our understanding of disability, which profoundly challenges traditional models of citizenship and leads to uncertainties in professional practice. I propose a three-pillar model of inclusive citizenship, underpinned by the social model of disability, a socio-legal framework of rights-based anti-discrimination, and recognition of struggle as a political manifestation of contested ideologies. Each pillar is associated with concomitant shifts not only in individual but also in institutional behaviour, which extends to a critical examination of the law, the role of the state, social and institutional practices. The extent to which curriculum development on Citizenship, policy ideas, resources and practices are inclusive of and accessible to disabled people, and how programmes of study at key stages 3 and 4 reference disabled citizens, is critically discussed. This leads to an outline of practice with potential that connects disability equality to Citizenship education.
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Hoffman, Jamie F. "Disability| Faculty knowledge, awareness, and perceptions." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3574918.
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<p> Despite the vast research on students with disabilities, little is known about the perspectives of faculty in higher education. According to the literature reviewed, the overall experience of students with disabilities inside the classroom in higher education is negative due to faculty knowledge, awareness, and perceptions. Institutions of higher education are seeing an increase in the number of students with disabilities who are attending college. Students with disabilities have needs inside of the classroom that exceed a typical student in higher education. Faculty provides the support inside of the classroom necessary to meet both the university standards and the standards addressed in the Americans with Disabilities Act. The purpose of this study was to assess faculty knowledge, awareness and perceptions as they relate to students with disabilities and the regulations that mandate accessibility in higher education. </p><p> A survey was administered to 162 faculty members at a large four-year university in the southeastern United States. The findings from this study identified that faculty at the university had significant differences across gender, knowledge, awareness, and perceptions. No significant group differences were found in faculty based on years teaching and their knowledge, awareness, and perceptions. Findings could serve as the foundation for future research on faculty knowledge, awareness, and perceptions. In addition the findings add to the existing literature and provide data to offices for students with disabilities to further understand faculty knowledge, awareness and perceptions as well as possible justification for faculty development. Suggestions and implications for practice are also addressed.</p>
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LI, Huijun. "Fears and related anxieties in children having a disability." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289949.
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This study assessed the number of fears, intensity of fears, type of fears and anxieties, and most common fears in children having a disability. In addition, the correlation level between different raters in the assessment of student fears and related anxieties were examined. Data were collected from public schools and evaluated using Multivariate Analysis of Variance, Analysis of Variance, slice effect test, frequency analysis, and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Findings from the present study indicated that students with learning disabilities (LD) reported significantly higher total fear score and higher levels of fear in the two factors of the Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised (FSSC-R): fear of failure and criticism and fear of danger and death. In addition, the LD group reported significantly higher overall anxiety level and higher levels of anxiety in all the three subscale scores of Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS). Results showed that girls reported significantly higher scores than did boys in total fear score, intensity of fears, and two factors of FSSC-R--fear of unknown and fear of injury and small animals. Furthermore, girls in the LD group reported higher total fear score, intensity of fears, and higher levels of fear in all the five factors of FSSC-R than their male counterparts in the same group. On the other hand, girls in the mild mental retardation (MIMR) group reported lower scores in these measures than did their boy counterparts in the same group. Regarding age differences, older students reported significantly higher scores in the fear of failure and criticism. In addition, older students in the MIMR group reported higher levels of total fear score, intensity of fears, fear of the unknown, fear of danger and death, and fear of failure and criticism than their younger counterparts. The 10 most common fears yielded from the Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised were mostly in the fear of danger and death factor. The results showed that there were low but significant correlations between child self report and teacher report of the child on most dependent measures examined in the present study.
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Morton, Mary Winston. "Silenced in the court Facilitated communication and the meanings of disability and disability research in the legal setting /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.
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Robinson, Deborah Christine. "Developing initial teacher education for special education needs, disability and inclusive practice." Thesis, Open University, 2013. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.664283.
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The central question explored in this study is how can Initial Teacher Education (ITE) be developed to enhance the skills, confidence and preparedness of student teachers for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) and inclusive practice? It involved an inclusive action research (IAR) project involving teachers, teaching assistants, student teachers and a university tutor within one partnership school. The IAR focused on the actions that participants agreed were immediately relevant to preparation for inclusive classrooms. To deepen the potential transferability of the study, additional research methods were used to reflect on the IAR and the wider placement context so that factors supportive of professional development could be identified and understood. The study demonstrated that remodelling partnership as collaborative enquiry among students, practitioners and an academic tutor (Mclntyre, 2009) can enable reflexive engagement with conceptual and practical dilemmas in ways that may enhance the professional development of students and more experienced practitioners. It also captured an account of the complex nature of inclusive practice and the manner in which practitioners adopt particular conceptual positions (e.g. capability discourses) to enhance their own self-efficacy whilst operating contradictory discourses (e.g. deficit discourses) when mediating external cultures. Supportive to professional development for student teachers and school staff was; a collaborative culture; opportunities for students and more experienced staff to engage in structured, systematic, collaborative enquiry in the context ofthe school placement; the demotion of the discourses of expertism (Slee, 2010); the promotion of capacity discourses for SEND and opportunities for reflexive work. The study raises questions about the appropriateness of individuated competence standards for inclusive practice and suggests that teacher education must embrace more complex, research-oriented, dilemmatic, critical-theoretical and socially situated pedagogic frameworks, networking ITE into continuing profeSSional development in ways that enable career-long development in support of education for all.
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Steff, Marion. "Active living and seniors with intellectual disability - An ecological perspective." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40683.
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Active living is a “way of life in which physical, social, mental, emotional, and spiritual activities are valued and are integrated into daily living” (Active Living Coalition for Older Adults, 2008). As such, physical activity is a critical component of active living through which each citizen is encouraged to be active 30 minutes a day for health benefits. Seniors with intellectual disability (ID) are currently not included in this movement. The Ecological Model of Human Behavior (EMHB) stresses the importance of a supportive environment promoting healthy behavior. It is the theoretical framework of this thesis, which is composed of a series of three articles, and therefore structures the literature review and the two research studies conducted. The first study inquired about the physical activity barriers, needs, and preferences of seniors with ID. It was carried out among seniors with ID themselves and educators through a questionnaire and focus groups interviews. The second study investigated the organization of physical activity for seniors with ID. It was carried out among centers for people with ID, senior citizen centers, and centers for health and leisure, through an online survey. Overall, results showed a remarkable interest by seniors with ID who enjoyed sharing their different perspectives. A great number among them exercised while having optimistic outlooks on their health. Physical activity programs were not designed around seniors with ID. Although their needs increase as they age, seniors remained relatively ignored and did not benefit from any special support in health prevention. The results also suggested that educators and service providers required greater guidance to facilitate the implementation of physical activities. Active living through physical activity was not yet conceptualized as a vehicle to promote health among seniors with ID.<br>La vie active est une « façon de vivre où les activités physiques, sociales, mentales, affectives et spirituelles sont valorisées et intégrées dans la vie quotidienne » (Coalition pour la Vie Active, 2008). Ainsi, l’activité physique est une composante critique de la vie active où chaque citoyen est encouragé à être actif minimalement 30 minutes par jour pour ressentir des bienfaits. Les personnes âgées avec une déficience intellectuelle (DI) ne sont présentement pas inclues dans ce mouvement. Le Modèle écologique du comportement humain souligne l’importance du soutien environnemental dans la promotion d’un comportement sain. Il est le cadre théorique de cette thèse, qui est composée d’une série de trois articles, et structure donc la revue de littérature et les deux études menées. La première s’intéressait aux barrières, besoins et préférences en activité physique des personnes âgées avec une DI. L’étude a été conduite parmi des personnes âgées avec une DI elles-mêmes et des éducateurs, à travers un questionnaire et des groupes de discussion. La deuxième étude examinait l’organisation des activités physiques pour les personnes âgées avec DI. L’étude a été conduite parmi des centres pour personnes avec une DI, des centres pour personnes âgées et des centres de santé et loisirs, à travers un sondage en ligne. Globalement, les résultats ont démontré un intérêt remarquable des personnes âgées avec une DI qui ont aimé partager leurs différentes perspectives. Un nombre important d’entre-elles faisait de l’exercice tout en ayant un point de vue optimiste sur leur santé. Les programmes d’activité physique n’étaient pas créés autour des personnes âgées avec une DI. Bien que leurs besoins augmentent avec l’âge, les personnes âgées restaient relativement ignorées et ne bénéficiaient pas de soutien spécial en matière de prévention de la santé. Les résultats ont aussi m
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Camara, Nathan Joshua. "Life After Disability Diagnosis: The Impact of Special Education Labeling in Higher Education." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/eps_diss/79.
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There has been an increasing number of students with learning disabilities attending colleges and universities over the past two decades. As a result of federal legislation, institutions of higher education are required through an office of student support services to provide accommodations and modifications for students with disabilities in order to receive federal monies. This semi-structured interview-based qualitative study seeks to understand how four higher education students with disabilities make the choice to “come out” as possessing a learning disability in order to seek academic assistance from the office of student support services. The foundation for this inquiry emerges out of the differences between the medical and social models of disabilities. The framework for the medical model places the individual with a disability as needing to be cured in order to have a normal life, while the social model of disabilities focuses on how society is constructed around able-bodied individuals without substantive consideration for individual differences – specifically disabilities. The data collected were analyzed using a cross-interview analysis of participants’ responses to interview questions. Because little research has been conducted in this content area, the research focused on themes relating to the stigma of disability labels, the choice to come out as possessing a disability, the role of the academic resource center to obtain accommodations and modifications, and the meaning of success for higher education students with disabilities. The stigma associated with possessing a disability while attending an institution of higher education can place additional anxiety on individuals who decide to come out as possessing a disability. The significance of this research to the fields of higher education and disability studies is to gain a better understanding of how the stigma that is associated with students with disabilities affects the manner in which they choose to access student support services and identify themselves as possessing a learning disability. By making the choice to be identified as possessing a disability, students can access academic accommodations and modifications to support academic success, yet the same choice has the potential to have a negative social consequence of being socially labeled as an othered individual. The outcomes for this research study can inform policies and practices relating to the self-identification that students with disabilities must adhere to in order to obtain accommodations and modifications.
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Marita, Samantha. "Understanding the Educational Experiences of Individuals with Learning Disabilities: A Narrative Perspective." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522320041872335.
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Button, Amy Lynn. "A Path Analysis of Disability Type, Academic Major, and Postsecondary Degree Completion." Thesis, Alfred University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10284728.
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<p> The present study utilized data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study – 2, which is a longitudinal study of a nationally represented sample of students with disabilities between the years 2000 and 2010. Using this dataset, the relationships among disability type area of study, and degree completion were explored. The final sample included approximately 310 students classified as having learning disabilities (LD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It was hypothesized that individuals with ASD would prefer fields of study where there was limited social interaction to a greater degree than those with LD or ADHD. Additionally, it was hypothesized that students with ASD would be more likely than their LD and ADHD counterparts to choose fields of study in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Results from two path analysis models, however, revealed no significant findings. Consequently, it appears as though other factors or a combination of factors better account for the postsecondary outcomes of students with disabilities. The primary implication of these findings is that professionals and caregivers should refrain from making assumptions about area of postsecondary study or degree completion based simply on students’ disability types. Furthermore, it does not appear warranted to direct students with disabilities to select specific types of academic majors simply because it is assumed that pursuing those majors will result in better postsecondary outcomes.</p>
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Rossetti, Zachary Stephen. "Learning to connect: Developmental disability and friendship in high school." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Mims, Pamela J., and Bree A. Jimenez. "Teaching Students with Moderate and Severe Intellectual Disability." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/319.
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A Survival Guide for New Special Educators provides relevant, practical information for new special education teachers across a broad range of topic areas. Drawing on the latest research on special educator effectiveness and retention, this comprehensive, go-to resource addresses the most pressing needs of novice instructors, resource teachers, and inclusion specialists. Offers research-based, classroom-tested strategies for working with a variety of special needs students Covers everything from preparing for the new school year to behavior management, customizing curriculum, creating effective IEPs, and more Billingsley and Brownell are noted experts in special educator training and support
This highly practical book is filled with checklists, forms, and tools that special educators can use every day to help ensure that all special needs students get the rich, rewarding education they deserve.
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Marks, Lori J. "2002 Deaf Awareness Week and Disability Awareness Month Celebration." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3696.
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Terzi, Lorella. "Equality, capability and social justice in education : re-examining disability and special educational needs." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019825/.
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This study is a philosophical conceptualisation of educational equality in relation to provision for disabled students and students with Special Educational Needs. Its theoretical core is the outline of a principled framework for a just distribution of educational opportunities to these students. Situated within liberal egalitarianism, this conceptualisation relates principles of justice as fairness (as developed by John Rawls) and the capability approach (as developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum) to the areas of disability studies and special and inclusive education. Current perspectives on disability, and in particular the social model of disability, and positions on Special Educational Needs, as well as related policies, present theoretical and operational limits not only in relation to the achievement of inclusion, but also in addressing the equal entitlement of children to education. These limits derive primarily from the absence of clear principles, and relate specifically to the understandings of disability and special educational needs informing these perspectives. This conceptualisation of educational equality operationalises the capability approach with reference both to issues of definitions and of provision. The capability approach is a normative framework where equality is evaluated within the space of the actual freedoms - or capabilities - people have to pursue their ends and to convert resources into functionings they value. In connecting capability to the demands of justice, this approach contributes important insights to the theorisation of a principled framework for resource distribution. The framework theorised entails principles of justice as fairness informed by a capability metric, which is sensitive to the interests of disabled students and students with learning difficulties, and underpinned by definitions of disability and Special Educational Needs reconsidered in terms of functionings and capabilities. Whilst re-establishing the centrality of educational equality, this study reconceptualises disability and Special Educational Needs within a framework of justice.
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Donovan, Elizabeth A. "Arab American parents' experiences of special education and disability| A phenomenological exploration." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618900.
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<p> Within the field of school psychology there exists literature for school psychologists working with specific ethnic and linguistic groups (Frisby & Reynolds, 2005; Tomes, 2011). The Arab American population is estimated to be 3.6 million (Arab American Institute, 2012). However, there is a paucity of school psychology research on Arab American students and families (Goforth, 2011; Haboush, 2007). As active members of the special education process, school psychologists will benefit from information regarding Arab American cultural and religious beliefs about special education and disabilities. Such information will assist them in providing culturally sensitive and appropriate services to students and families. </p><p> This study utilized a phenomenological qualitative approach to illuminate Arab Americans parents' experiences with their children's encounters with the special education process and perceptions of their children's disabilities. Phenomenological data analysis revealed four core themes. First, parents attached significance to specific steps within the special education process and to cultural stigmas around special education and disabilities. Next, parents reflected on special education services and key relationships. Additionally, parents discussed their children's abilities, their understandings of special education, and their advocacy work. Finally, parents reported that their goals for their children had not changed as a result of the special education process, although the goals were tailored to their children's identified disabilities. These findings have significant implications for professionals working with Arab American students and their parents. Recommendations are made for culturally sensitive school psychology practice with Arab Americans. Suggestions are provided for further research on this important yet under-researched topic. </p>
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McDonald-Morken, Colleen Ann. "Mainstreaming Critical Disability Studies Towards Undoing the Last Prejudice." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2014. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27446.
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According to critical disability studies scholars, disablism may be the fundamental system of unearned advantaging and disadvantaging upon which all other notions of difference-as-deviance are constructed. If so, a deeply critical and intersectional investigation of enabled privilege/disablism prepares a grounding from which seeds of novel and effective approaches to social and educational justice may be cultivated. Whether or not disablism holds this pivotal position, the costs to us all in terms of personal, ethical, professional, and financial losses are too steep, have always been too steep. In this disquisition I begin by arguing for the prioritizing and centering of a radical emancipatory discourse--across and within all education venues--regarding disability. In Chapter 2, I explore models of disability and notice where awareness of enabled privilege has been absent in my own experience as an educator and call for all educators to consider what might it mean if awareness of enabled privilege and the harms of disablism were at the center of our daily personal, social, and institutional lives. Chapter 3 investigates the perceptions of post-compulsory education professionals regarding what constitutes disability allyship and identifies three unique viewpoints. Chapter 4 blends conceptualizations of allyship developed within various social justice literatures with those identified viewpoints of disability allyship to yield a model professional development approach focused on an intersectional analysis for social justice through disability justice. The dissertation concludes in Chapter 5 with a discussion of core assertions and findings and points to future research priorities.<br>NDSU FORWARD Initiative (Funded by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award HRD-0811239)
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Seals, Linda J. "The experiences of parents with adolescents identified as having a specific learning disability." ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/809.
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Of the 6.6 million children in the United States who were deemed in 2008 to have a disability that required special instruction, over 39% were classified as specific learning disabled (SLD). This figure translates into a high number of people who are parenting a child identified as having a SLD. Bronfenbrenner's theory of the ecology of human development indicated the importance of interconnections between school, home, and community settings. Collaboration between teachers and families may be strengthened by utilizing knowledge gained from parents' lived experiences of parenting an adolescent identified as having a SLD. The primary research question guiding this phenomenological study involved understanding the experiences of parents with adolescents identified as having a SLD. Data from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 12 parents were collected and analyzed by employing the Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen method. The analysis revealed that the recognition and the acceptance of a child's otherness permeated the parent experience of SLD while four other interconnected contexts emerged concerning parents' lived experiences with: (a) their identified child, (b) other family members, (c) teachers and staff, and (d) other members of an individual education planning team. The study found that parents adopted roles such as caretaker, cheerleader, legal analyst, and child advocate in order to obtain the educational services they deemed appropriate for their child. This study gave voice to parents of adolescents who struggle academically. The findings promote social change by informing and encouraging educators to support and promote collaboration with parents of adolescents identified as having a SLD, potentially enabling those students to receive better educational services.
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Kraemer, Robert John. "Special Education Placement Factors for Latino Students." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193719.
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The disproportionate representation of minority students in special education programs has been a problem for over forty years. Factors contributing to minority overrepresentation include the lack of primary prevention, inappropriate language and educational assessment, over-referral of minority students for suspected learning difficulties, duration of enrollment in language support services [i.e. English as a Second Language instruction (ESL)], and lack of cultural and linguistic knowledge by K-12 teachers, specialists, and administrators. The goal of the investigator was to determine pertinent placement factors used by Multidisciplinary Educational Team (MET) members when deciding whether or not to place Latino English Language Learner (ELL) students in special education for a suspected specific learning disability (SLD). Identification of such factors may elucidate why some ELL students are inappropriately placed in special education for a SLD while others who need services are not. The investigator also willdetermine the extent special education eligibility determination was based on standardized achievement test scores, Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test scores, IQ-achievement discrepancy criteria, and qualitative data such as MET report data.
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Mims, Pamela J., Carol Stranger, R. Pennington, W. White, J. Sears, and N. Strickler. "Opinion Paragraph Writing Intervention for Students with Significant Disability." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/309.
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Increasingly, technology has been used to provide access to academic curricula for students with moderate to severe intellectual disability. In the current pilot study, we used a multiple probe across participants design to evaluate the effectiveness of a technology-based instructional package on the opinion writing skills of three middle school students with moderate and severe intellectual disability. Findings suggest that the intervention resulted in improved performance across all three participants and that all participants maintained performance at levels greater than baseline. Limitations and implications for practice and future research are discussed.
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Cluley, Victoria. "What does learning disability mean in the 'real world'? : re-evaluating conceptions and definitions of learning disability." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34078/.
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What does learning disability mean in the ‘real world’? is a qualitative sociological thesis that explores the discursive resources used by different groups of people in relation to the term learning disability. Learning disability is a term that can mean different things to different people. It is also a term that can be seen from a variety of theoretical standpoints. Indeed, the term learning disability exists within a semantic tangle of definitions, concepts, colloquialisms, politics and attitudes that is fraught with historical, social and political tensions. While this is a feature of many terms, how learning disability is understood is of direct consequence to people with learning disabilities and the lives they live. This thesis aims to address this confusion and to work towards a re-evaluation of concepts and definitions of learning disability. The empirical work undertaken for this thesis is based on two philosophical positioning statements that emanated from the literature review: that learning disability is both an embodied reality and a social construct; and that people’s views, perceptions, and understandings are meaningful reflections of social reality. In order to obtain the perceptions of people experiencing the ‘real world’ of learning disability, a combination of focus groups with people without learning disabilities and photovoice sessions with people with learning disabilities were used. The resultant findings have been analysed using a combination of discourse analysis and interpretive engagement. From this data, it is concluded that dominant models of disability, found in current learning disability policy and research as well as in the research participants’ talk, result in the (mis)representation of learning disability. In order to redress this issue, it is argued that the body, including the brain as a bodily organ, must be reoriented to a position of influence within understandings of learning disability.
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Morrison, Colin Arthur. "From disability to capability : sex and relationship learning for children and young people with a learning disability." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2910/.
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This study focuses on sex and relationships learning and is concerned with the securing of sexual rights for people with learning disabilities. The intent is to identify the characteristics of effective sex and relationship learning as well as address the broader role that adults can play to enable safe, happy and fulfilling personal relationships for children and young people with learning disabilities. What will result is an understanding of what social justice means in the lives of people with a learning disability and how this might be applied to personal and sexual relationships. What will be claimed is the right to (and the experience of) relationships lived as an integral part of a life lived with human dignity.
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Church, Leslie, and James J. Fox. "Time Lost to Office Referrals: Effect of Disability Status, Behavior, and PBIS." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/140.
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Administrators, general and special educators in two city and two county districts estimated time lost to office referrals. Results in -dicated lost administrative and instructional time depended on disciplinary offense, student disability, and use of PBIS.
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Mayton, Michael R., Stacy L. Carter, and John J. Wheeler. "Intrusiveness of Behavioral Treatments for Adults with Intellectual Disability." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/316.
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The current study examined treatment intrusiveness within behavior intervention programs developed for adults with intellectual disability (ID). Behavior analysts provided demographic information about themselves, their adult clients with ID, and their clients’ behavior intervention plans, and they completed an online version of the Treatment Intrusiveness Measure (Carter et al., 2009), an instrument that provides a Base Level Intrusiveness Score (BLIS; a score computed across five areas of categorization, such as, Health and Safety) and a Modified Level of Intrusiveness Score (MLIS), which assesses the presence or absence of intrusiveness-reducing practices. Among other findings, various statistical analyses revealed (a) a significant difference between BLIS and modified (BLIS minus MLIS) intrusiveness scores, (b) the practices within which most of the intrusiveness was concentrated within behavioral treatment programs, and (c) the least- and most-utilized intrusiveness-reducing practices. Implications are provided to assist professionals working with adults with ID who engage in challenging behavior and are supported through behavior intervention services.
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Mayton, Michael R., John J. Wheeler, and Anthony L. Menendez. "Ethical Considerations for Managing Challenging Behavior in Students with ASD and/or Intellectual Disability." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2715.
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Bartos, Bonnie Heather. "An Investigation of School-Based Specific Learning Disability Identification." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2714.
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Researchers have described the special education identification process for students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) as "muddled and confused" (Bocian, Beebe, MacMillan, & Gresham, 1999) and "haphazard" and "capricious" (Shinn, 2007, p. 603). Bocian, Beebe, MacMillan, and Gresham (1999) proposed the theory of competing paradigms as a way to explain why researchers and school-based eligibility teams identify different groups of students as SLD. This qualitative study had two research questions: a) To what extent did interviews of secondary resource teachers reveal the concepts of relativity, acceptability, and profitability as they reflect on the SLD process? and b) What other themes regarding SLD eligibility determination emerged from interviews with secondary resource teachers? Utilizing the modified constant comparative method (Lincoln & Guba, 1985), the author revealed that there was moderate support for the paradigms of relativity and acceptability, but less support for the paradigm of profitability. In addition, the author identified other themes, such as difficulties with evaluating English language learners and the benefit of case management, that can be used to expand Bocian’s theory. The author also argued that the paradigms overlap with one another during the special education identification process, rather than proceeding in a sequential order. Finally, the author discussed the implications of her findings in terms of improving school-based and policy practices.
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Chambers, Cynthia R., and L. E. Swank. "Building Leaders in the Disability Field through Inter-Professional Training." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3856.
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Galkin, Daphne Louise. "Beyond accommodations| Disability service professionals in higher education as campus change agents." Thesis, Manhattanville College, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3701048.
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<p> The U.S. Department of Education statistics report increasing numbers of students with learning disabilities and other non-apparent disabilities enrolling in higher education. This change in student demographic presents new challenges to institutions and disability service professionals to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student population. The purpose of this study was to attain a deeper understanding of the decision-making experiences of the disability service professionals charged with making accommodation decisions with the intent of informing professional development opportunities that will help build the confidence and effectiveness of these high-stakes decision-makers. The research questions were addressed using a mixed methods research design utilizing a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews of disability service professionals in the northeast region of the United States. Major findings from this study included a surprising yet optimistic decrease in importance disability service professionals placed on specific documentation components in order to make accommodation decisions, the significance of building collaborative relationships on their campuses, and the considerable time and resources they devote to educating faculty on alternative methods of assessment to more effectively teach an increasingly diverse student population. The results of this study underscore the importance of disability service professionals on increasingly diverse campuses and the role they play in enhancing accessibility and ultimately contributing to the culture of diversity on their campuses. Professional development opportunities for higher education administrators are discussed, which include shifting the training focus from documentation and accommodation decision-making to understanding learning and teaching styles, as well as developing soft skills related to interdepartmental collaborative problem-solving.</p>
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Donovan, Elizabeth A. "Arab American Parents' Experiences of Special Education and Disability: A Phenomenological Exploration." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1372583897.
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Pina, Emily. "Trends in the Educational Placement of Students with Visual Impairments or Intellectual Disability across 42 Years." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1619018224049987.
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Thomas, Valencia E. "Black Males and the Emotional Disturbance Disability Label: A Leadership Problem." Ashland University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1567181757344763.
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Westling, Allodi Mara. "Support and Resistance : Ambivalence in Special Education." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Specialpedagogiska institutionen, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-18165.
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Support and Resistance discusses the interaction between pupils of different abilities and the school organisation. The dissertation has its point of departure in the views of pupils, both those with special support and their classmates. It outlines how school is – and how it should be – in the views of schoolchildren. The results show that the presence in a class of a child with disability correlates with better class climate. Contradictions between goals and values in the educational system are supposedly solved with a compartmentalisation of goals and values, in which the differentiated settings take more responsibility for the goals of socialisation and democratic participation, while the regular settings concentrate on the goals of selection and achievement. This tends to be unsatisfactory, however. The theoretical framework of the dissertation relates to concepts from the fields of sociology, group psychology, psychoanalysis, the history of ideas and the history of education. The empirical studies concern pupils’ self-concept, their perceptions of class climate and school in relation to organisational aspects of learning settings such as homogeneity/heterogeneity, the special support offered at school, the presence of differentiated settings and the opportunity of participation. These studies are based upon questionnaires and texts written by children in comprehensive schools, and on interviews and observations of educational settings. The results and their implications are related to the goals of socialisation, democratic education and social participation. This work is of interest to educators, school administrators, policy-makers and scholars in the fields of education, special education and disability research.
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Snyder, Sarah, Victoria Knight, and Pamela J. Mims. "Teaching Students with Intellectual Disability to Read Text." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/183.
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This session will provide a text comprehension research overview for students with intellectual disability (ID). The presenters will review the instructional strategies and text supports (accommodations) that have been used to improve student text comprehension, with emphasis on strategies that teachers can immediately implement, and discuss opportunities for future research. Learner Outcomes: • Participants will gain knowledge of the text comprehension research base, as well as explore practical issues related to researching text comprehension. • Participants will learn about the instructional strategies and supports that have been used to improve student text comprehension and how to implement these in their classrooms. • Participants will describe recommendations for implementing research-based instruction and supports into their practice.
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Portwood, Barbara. "Inclusive Special and General Education Secondary Teachers' Attitudes towards the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in the General Education Setting." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10748483.
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<p> The passage of The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act (2002), formerly known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, sparked a significant rise in the number of students with disabilities receiving their instruction in the inclusive setting. While previous legislation mandated that students with disabilities be included in standardized testing, NCLB called for closing the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers. Research indicated the success of students with disabilities in the general educational setting was influenced by teacher attitude. This qualitative study addressed secondary general and special education teacher attitudes and beliefs surrounding the practice of inclusion. It focused on comparing data on teacher attitudes towards the inclusion of students with disabilities into the general educational setting. Forty secondary teachers of varying ages, education, and with a range of five to 32 years of experience, from several school districts around metropolitan Saint Louis participated in this study. An electronic survey and semi- structured interviews were employed to query the teachers’ attitudes regarding the inclusion of students with disabilities in the general educational setting and the perceived barriers. The results indicated that teachers’ attitudes were generally positive toward the ideology of inclusion; however, when asked to express their views about the practice of inclusion in open-ended survey questions, results indicated less than positive views toward the practice of inclusion for all students. The most noteworthy factors associated with the negative attitudes was the lack of administrative support, and lack of training. Results also indicated that special education teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion were significantly more positive than those of general education teachers. The analysis of data revealed there was not a significant correlation between teachers’ attitudes of inclusion in regards to their type of certification, degree level, and years of experience.</p><p>
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Kelly-Massoud, Adelaide. "A Collective Case Study: Special Education Teacher Perceptions of Students with Autism and Emotional Disturbance." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2020. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=27664373.
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The purpose of this study is to explore the perceptions of teachers’ experiences as they work with students who have the label of autism and ED in the same self-contained classroom. For this study, three main theoretical perspectives guided the researcher’s approach to understanding participant perceptions. This study used social constructivism, self-efficacy, and attribution theory to explore special education teachers’ perceptions. Study design included semi-structured interviews, multiple observations, and examination of artifacts of four participants working within self-contained classrooms. Both within case analysis and cross-case analysis was utilized to examine perceptions and attributions. These methods gave a voice to study participants by illustrating how they made meaning of teaching their students. Portraiture, as a tool, presented rich and thick descriptions of the participants as well as methodological approach for data collection. This study revealed obvious distinctions in how participants perceived causes of behavior, how participants described behaviors, and how they responded to student behaviors. Findings suggest participants attribute external factors to negative behaviors displayed by students with a label of ED. Findings suggest participants attribute the same negative behaviors to internal facts for students with a label of autism. Responses were driven by participants understanding of disability. Participant responses suggested participants used their perceptions of what external factors caused behaviors to rationalize negative student behaviors and used the same external factors to drive a therapeutic lens to address and move past these behaviors for students with labels of ED. Participants response to behaviors for students with autism were not attributed to external factors. Individual portraits highlighted how participants expressed student behaviors differently for students with an ED label in comparison to an autism label. There is little research on the experience of teachers who work with students with an ED label and autistic label in the same classroom. This research provided unique insight on how participants perceive these students and how they attribute aggressive behaviors to these disability categories. This study serves as a platform for future research exploring teacher perceptions of students with labels of ED and autism and how to support them in the classroom.
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Kimball, Pauline Aines. "Disability resources for the educator." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2358.
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This thesis identifies what disability resources are currently accessible and needed by the educator in order to service the disabled student in the classroom. It is a compilation of medical, academic, financial and equipment resources currently available to the educator.
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Casha, Sonja. "Speaking of angels : intellectual disability, identity and further education in Malta." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6601/.
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The number of students with intellectual disabilities who continue studying past compulsory education in Malta is abysmal. This has spurred the choice of my research which aims to identify the factors that affect this phenomenon. This study uses first-hand accounts by individuals with intellectual disabilities on their experience of further education (FE) in Malta and attempts to highlight the associated benefits and barriers experienced. The results of this study have shown that although factors affecting FE inclusion in Malta are varied, the participants of the study focused primarily on the negative barriers arising from past school experience. The level of bullying and isolation experienced in mainstream school environments is considered a predominant factor in the choice of not pursuing FE. Another emerging factor is the lack of choice for students with intellectual disabilities to stand by their own wishes including the choice of whether or not to enter FE. This is considered to be due to an entrenched paternalistic attitude inherent in Maltese society which may originate from the island’s Catholic roots. These socio-cultural attitudes relegate people with intellectual disabilities to passive receivers of charity. It is perhaps these same attitudes that limit the accessibility also within FE in Malta as reported by the study participants. These factors are seen as playing a significant part in the reasons for such low participation of students with intellectual disabilities in FE locally. These barriers limit the opportunities for this student cohort to enjoy the benefits of FE which were identified primarily to be social integration, employment and independence.
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Mahiko, Joy. "Community Connections| Supporting Rural Youth with Disabilities Who Are Work-Bound." Thesis, Capella University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10635334.
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<p> Although many public schools in the United States are located in rural areas, the literature on rural youth is extremely limited, and the literature on rural youth with disabilities is practically absent. The purpose of this study was to gather the perspectives of community partners regarding rural school-community partnerships and provide an understanding of (a) the community’s role, (b) how connections in rural communities were formed, and (c) how school-community partnerships can be strengthened. This study added to the existing literature on rural school-community partnerships by providing a deeper understanding of the processes that influence the phenomenon of transition to work for rural youth with disabilities. Employing a basic qualitative research design, information from this study was captured regarding community members’ perspectives on their roles and experience partnering with rural schools to transition youth with disabilities to work. The target population consisted of community members who represented businesses and community organizations who had purposefully connected with a rural school to support youth with disabilities transitioning to work. The sample included 10 participants who took part in semistructured, one-on-one interviews to describe their experiences. Data analysis revealed the roles of the community partners and the processes they used to secure school-community partnerships. The findings indicated that the community played a vital role in transitioning youth with disabilities to work and that it took time for the community partners to adjust to their new roles of supporting youth with disabilities in the workplace. The findings provide valuable insight on how rural schools can sustain, improve, and expand their community partnerships and experiences for students with disabilities. Opportunities for future research include identification of work training opportunities for rural students with disabilities, exploration of the types of transition assessments and work skills that promote transition to work, and research with a larger sample to improve generalizability.</p><p>
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Brown, Sheena Louise. "Teaching normalcy, learning disability - the risky business of special education : exploring the retrospective reflections of schooling experiences by learning disabled post-secondary students." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/704.
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Although the policies and practices of special education are openly constructed around a premise of mobility and opportunity, students from low income backgrounds (‘at risk’ youth) are twice as likely to be labeled “special.” Moreover, of all the special educational categories, learning disabilities (a diagnosis deeply contested) account for the largest group of special educational students who are ‘at risk’ learners. This project is hinged on addressing how those students who are apparent beneficiaries of special educational policies and programs (evidenced by post-secondary enrolment) make meaning of their prior and current educational experiences in relation to special educational policies, services and programs.
The author begins by theorizing that such disabilities may medicalize social problems while still preserving a veneer of equality. However, since not all labels have universal meanings when applied to specific social agents, they may both hinder and help some in gaining access to post secondary education. With the support of a group of four enrolled post secondary students located in the Canadian urban west-coast, who identify as learning disabled and the recipients of related interventions, this thesis provides a complex reading of the everyday that draws upon how the students’ specific cultural and material locations inform their understanding of education, ability, disability, meritocracy and normalcy. Collecting data through semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted during the Spring and Fall of 2007, the students actively engage and challenge the author’s original theoretical and methodological assumptions.
Anticipating critiques of special education, the author is surprised by the students’ support of such programs. Expecting responses to interview questions to be based on a reading of meritocracy as normalcy and disability as deficit, these students weave understandings of meritocracy and normalcy to articulate their abilities without rejecting their disability labels. In terms of policy where the emphasis is placed on disability as deficit, the findings imply that policy-makers neglect the energy and labour students invest in emphasizing their abilities. For educators, this reveals an important pedagogy of inclusion by inverting assumptions that special educational students are ‘at risk’ of educational failure without unfolding the complex ways in which they actively demonstrate their abilities.
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Cipolla, Christopher. ""Not So Backwards"| A Phenomenological Study on the Lived Experiences of High Achieving Post-Secondary Students with Dyslexia." Thesis, Northwest Nazarene University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10817443.
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<p> Research confirms that dyslexia is the most common form of learning disability that exists in schools today. Continuous dyslexic research has narrowed in on specific characteristics of the disability, yet many dyslexics still struggle academically. The need for additional literature resides within the success stories of dyslexic individuals who have overcome their educational deficit and have persevered in academic arenas. This study examined factors contributing to the academic success of students With dyslexia and their ability to transcend academic barriers as they continue the journey into post-secondary education. Additionally, this study explored the influences of the educational methods, support structures such as family, peer and school mentorship, and coping strategies that might have affected the dyslexic learner’s academic performance. This phenomenological qualitative study utilized semi-structured interviews to capture the lived experiences of eight high-achieving students With dyslexia who have recently graduated or are on track to graduate from a post-secondary university. Interview questions were piloted and checked for validity. To ensure information-rich data, purposeful sampling was implemented to create a pool of participants that fit the phenomenon of high-achieving students With dyslexia through dyslexic organizations and the snowballing effect of participants.</p><p>
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Tukur, Sani Yusuf, and James Kiyuba. "CHALLENGES OF PROVIDING SPECIAL EDUCATION TO CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES : View of teachers and education officials." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och psykologi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-18019.
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Upon the introduction of the Universal primary education in 1997 by the government of Uganda, the idea of integrated education was put into practice. As of now, children with disabilities are accessing education through the mainstream schools though facing many challenges. However, our study has found out that CWDs are still facing many challenges in accessing special education in Uganda. This includes lack of good physical infrastructure, educational materials, easy access to classrooms, and other services. In addition, teachers are not motivated to take care of the needs of CWDs, resulting in low morale. Corruption among officials within the system is yet another factor affecting special education provision for CWDs. The study was conducted through qualitative method with semi structured interview questions. In one of the districts in Uganda, four teachers in one primary school and four education officials in the same district were interviewed. The aim of this study was to find out the challenges facing children with disabilities, and the possibilities of providing special education to them.
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Ashby, Marlene. "Special Ideas." TopSCHOLAR®, 1988. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1856.
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Special Ideas is a composite of practical strategies and techniques assembled for the primary-grade teacher’s use with the learning disabled student, slow learner and underachiever. The focal point of this material is the basic skills of reading, math, spelling, handwriting and general ideas on classroom management, behavior management and motivation. The purpose of the material is to provide the classroom teacher with practical ideas that may serve as a guide to help the teacher adapt and/or modify the curriculum, the materials, and the methods of instruction to the needs of the special child. The sources for these ideas include personal experiences, a variety of periodicals and other educational materials. Many of the ideas are written to help the child who learns best by using a specific mode such as visibility, auditorially or by tactile-kinesthetic methods.
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Mims, Pamela J., and Ginevra Courtade. "Increasing postsecondary outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse students with intellectual disability." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/169.
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Lightman, Timohty. "Power/knowledge in an age of reform| General education teachers and discourses of disability." Thesis, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3666801.
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<p> In this qualitative study, comprised of interviews and observations, I explore how discourses of disability circulating within the epistemologies and practices of four general education teachers at two different public elementary schools. Utilizing a Foucauldian lens, I am particularly interested in how these teachers responded to the power/knowledge claims asserted through the dominant medicalized discourse of disability institutionally employed and deployed through special education and the public school system writ large. Moreover, I have looked for acts of resistance, or in the parlance of Foucault (1983), "modes of action," recognizing that the formation of resistance is both a precondition and consequence of the exercising of power, and that power is the medium through which social change occurs. </p><p> In one of the schools, Taft, I encountered a school culture in which the institutional and discursive authority of special education and a medicalized discourse appeared deeply entrenched in the school culture encasing teachers, administrators and children within a network of power relations. This network discursively produced children identified with disabilities as unable to learn in general education classrooms, and general education teachers as unable to teach all children. Within this environment, opportunities for interrogation and resistance were nullified. In the other school, Bedford, I encountered a school culture in which the institutional and discursive authority of special education and a medicalized discourse appeared diminished, absent the institutional authority of special education. In its stead, appeared an internal bureaucratic discourse of assessment and accountability, concerned primarily with issues of compliance. With instruction and classroom management discursively organized, teachers were produced as officers of compliance, mobilized as agents in the discursive production of docile and compliant children. </p><p> Yet, with a weak administration and in the absence of an institutionalized special education apparatus within the school, I posit that at Bedford a localized alternative discourse circulated within the school, and that opportunities for interrogation and resistance arose in particular classrooms, with particular teachers, and in particular moments of time. However, despite an apparent disassociation from a medicalized discourse at Bedford, escaping the underlying assumptions of the medicalized discourse proved unreachable, if not impossible, and it continued to shape classroom teachers, and their notions of disability and inclusion as well as their perceptions and interactions with special education.</p>
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Ivani-Chalian, Christine. "A critical analysis of disability through processes of open learning." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241953.
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McDonnell, Daniel Michael 1948. "Qualitative assessment of successful individuals who have a learning disability." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282130.
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This study used qualitative methods to investigate successful individuals who had a learning disability. Six participants, three men and three women, along with their family members and significant others were interviewed. A participant observation was also conducted during each participant's typical day at work. Four common characteristics were found among the participants. These characteristics were organizational skills, drive, a match between strengths and career, and interpersonal competence. The characteristics identified by the study were similar to those found by Gerber and Ginsberg (1990); however, it was noted that over-reliance on one characteristic and an inability to adjust to success often created difficulties. Further, job satisfaction and eminence in one's field did not always mean self-fulfillment, happiness, and psychological maturity. A definition of success which suggests a balance between career, family, and social activities was given. The study noted that a key element in coping with a learning disability was that the individuals understood both their strengths and weakness. Family members indicated that the transition from school to adult life was critical and that the role of parent and family members' perceptions about the participants usually needed to be adjusted. Older participants indicated that having a son or a daughter who had a learning disability helped them to come to terms with their disability. They also noted the importance of having a diagnosis, so they could reframe their self-perception in terms of a condition rather than a sense of mental incompetence or laziness. Recommendations for future research in this field were presented.
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Douglas, Anastasia Jane. "Identities and agency in transition : moving from special school to further education." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/26754.
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This thesis draws on the experiences of 21 young people transitioning from a special school for students with labels of moderate learning difficulty, to further education college. Taking a disability studies approach, that is, viewing disability as a social and political response to human diversity, I examine some social processes through which student identity and agency meanings may be negotiated during transition. Times of change offer circumstances of opportunity in which new identity and agency meanings may be improvised and tested in various forms. Some students found emergent ways to subvert and transgress expectations, given the different labels applied to them. Transition, with its focus on future change, offers limbic moments which appear to support situations for such opportunistic transgression. Of particular interest are the environments and circumstances that support or promote broadening of identity and agency options, because an understanding of these may enable the engineering of such situations. Whilst the students were transitioning to college, my own researcher subjectivities and understandings of ‘knowledge’ were also in flux. I describe the considerable influence these changes had on the research processes and my understandings of identity and agency. I propose that identity and agency meanings, whilst fluid and ever-changing, are linked with particular people and situated in particular social sites. With this in mind, and as a provocation to new ways of thinking I discuss foundation level further education as an ethical project, envisaging circumstances that may support and promote broader, more positive opportunities for identity and agency negotiations amongst young people with labels of learning disability. In this context, further education is re-imagined as an opportunity for potential empowerment, repositioning learning disabled students as agents of social change.
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Ley, Davis Luann. "Effects of peer-mediated instruction on mathematical problem solving for students with moderate/severe intellectual disability." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10111913.
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<p> The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB, 2006) set a precedent that established even higher expectations for all students, including those with disabilities. More recently, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers developed a common set of state standards for proficiency in English language arts and mathematics known as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS, 2010). The CCSS in mathematics define and detail the content expectations and standards for mathematical practices for grades K-12. Their intent is to provide a rigorous, focused, and structured set of standards to prepare students in the 21<sup>st</sup> century to be college and career ready upon exiting the high school system. To meet these increased expectations, this investigation sought to determine the effects of peer-mediated schema based instruction on the number of correct steps of a task analysis to solve the <i>change</i> problem type of mathematical word problems with middle school students with moderate/severe intellectual disabilities (MS/ID). Additionally, this study investigated the effects of peer-mediated schema based instruction on the number of correct mathematical problems solved, the ability of students with MS/ID to discriminate between addition and subtraction in word problems for the <i>change</i> problem type, and if students with MS/ID were able to generalize the learned mathematical skills to an unfamiliar peer. Finally, this study examined the effects of peer-mediated instruction on both tutors’ and tutees’ social attitudes and perceptions of one another before and after the study was completed. The findings of this study demonstrated a functional relation between peer-mediated schema-based instruction (SBI) on the number of correct steps of a task analysis. Results also provided several implications for practice, offers suggestions for future research in this area, and discusses the social and academic benefits of using peer-mediated instruction for students with MS/ID.</p>
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Casner, Bill. "A Mixed Method Study on Schema-Based Instruction, Mathematical Problem Solving Skills, and Students with an Educational Disability." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10244398.
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<p> The purpose of this study was to determine the student outcomes of implementing schema-based instruction on students in grades 3-8 identified with an educational disability and ascertain how students’ developed mathematical problem solving skills. After special education teachers in a metropolitan school district in the Midwest administered a pre-assessment, the researcher used the results to select 21 students with an educational disability to participate in the mixed-methods study. Special education teachers implemented Asha K. Jitendra’s (2007) educational program titled, Solving Math Word Problems: Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities Using Schema-Based Instruction, during the 2013-2014 school year and taught participants using these techniques. The researcher measured student achievement by using both a pre and post-assessment and M-CAP benchmark scores on mathematical problem solving. In addition, the researcher gathered perceptions of schema-based instruction via surveys and interviews with special education teachers, general education teachers, and student participants. The analysis of quantitative data from the pre and post-assessments of students participating in the schema-based program as well as the analysis of qualitative data from student participant surveys supported a positive outcome on the use of schema-based instruction with students with an educational disability; the findings of this study reinforced the then-current literature. However, the student participants' M-CAP assessment data did not demonstrate the same amount of growth as the assessment data from the schema-based program. In addition, the analysis of survey and interview data from the two teacher groups also displayed discrepancies between special education teachers’ and general education teachers’ overall perceptions of the schema-based instructional program. Despite this, the preponderance of evidence demonstrated most students who participated in the study did learn as a result of the schema-based instruction and developed mathematical problem-solving skills. Therefore, the findings of this study corroborated the then-current literature and supported the continual use of the researched program; Solving Math Word Problems: Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities Using Schema-Based Instruction, by Jitendra (2007). The researcher concluded this program a valid research-based intervention to increase mathematical problem solving skills for students with an educational disability.</p>
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Zitomer, Michelle. "To be or not to be-able to dance; integrated dance and children's perceptions of dance ability and disability." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97148.
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This study investigated children's perceptions of dance ability and disability and changes to perceptions following participation in an integrated dance program. Focus group interviews, field notes, and observations were used with children with physical disabilities (n =5) and without disabilities (n=9) between the ages 6-9 before and after their participation in an integrated dance program. Ableism, contact theory, and aspects of the situative approach to knowledge construction served as theoretical frameworks. An interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to analyze the data. Pre-program interviews revealed three common themes: all kinds of moves, like ballet, and dance ability = turning/jumping. In addition, three themes emerged from interviews with able-bodied participants: can't walk/can't dance, passivity, and different because... Post-program interviews revealed two common themes: emotional/physical and body parts/levels. In addition two themes emerged describing able-bodied children's perceptions: can't walk/CAN dance and different because-equipment. One theme emerged post-program describing perceptions of participants with disabilities: competence. Participation in an integrated dance program can have a positive impact on children's perceptions of dance ability and a more subtle impact on able-bodied children's perceptions of disability.<br>Cette étude explore la perception des enfants de leurs habiletés et maladresse en danse en plus du potentiel quant à participer à un programme de danse intégrée afin de changer leurs perceptions. Des entrevues en groupe, notes prises sur le terrain, et des observations servirent à capturer les perceptions des enfants avec handicap (n = 5) et sans handicap (n = 9) entre l'âge de 6 à 9 ans avant et après leur participation à un programme de danse intégré. Les théories utilisées incluent l'ableisme, la théorie du contact et certains aspects de l'apprentissage situé. L'analyse phénoménologique interprétative est utilisé afin d'analyzer les données. Les entrevues suggèrent la présence de trois thèmes communs : tous les types de mouvements, la préférence du ballet, et l'habilité en danse = tourner/sauter. De plus, trois thèmes émèrgent quant aux entrevues avec les participants sans handicap : ne peux pas marcher/danser, passivité, et différent parce que… Les entrevues après le programme de danse révèlent deux thèmes en communs : émotionel/physique et parties du corps /niveaux. De plus, deux thèmes émèrgent afin de décrire les perceptions des enfants sans handicap : ne peux pas marcher/ peux danser, et différent dû à l'équipement. Un thème émerge après le programme de danse décrivant la perception des participants avec handicap : compétence. La participation dans un programme de danse intégré guidé par les principes de la théorie du contact peut avoir un impact positif sur la perception des enfants de leurs habiletés en danse et un impact plus subtile sur la perception des enfants sans handicap.