Results 261 to 270 of about 694,524 (294)

Learning Disabilities in Perspective

2018
This chapter attempts to place the remarkable progress in perspective and considers its implications for an account of learning disabilities. It begins by considering competing analogies and perspectives that seek to define the fundamental nature of reading disability.
Richard K. Wagner, Tamara Garon
openaire   +1 more source

A Mexican Perspective on Learning Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1995
Editor's Comment: In the June/July 1992 issue of the Journal of Learning Disabilities (Vol. 25, No. 6), we began our special International Perspective on Learning Disabilities series (see that issue for an introduction to the series). To date, we have published perspectives from Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Colombia, Italy, Scotland, and Portugal ...
T V, Fletcher, C K, Kaufman de Lopez
openaire   +2 more sources

Perspectives on pain and intellectual disability

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2008
AbstractHistorically, individuals with intellectual disability (ID) have been excluded from pain research and assumed to be insensitive or indifferent to pain. The weight of the evidence suggests that individuals with ID have been subject to practices and procedures with little regard for their ability to experience or express pain.
F J, Symons, S K, Shinde, E, Gilles
openaire   +2 more sources

International employee perspectives on disability management

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2017
To provide an international analysis of employees' views of the influence of disability management (DM) on the workplace.An international research team with representation from Australia, Canada, China, and Switzerland collected survey data from employees in public and private companies in their respective regions.
Shannon Wagner, Nicholas Buys, Ignatius Yu, Thomas Geisen, Henry Harder, Christine Randall, Alex Fraess-Phillips, Benedikt Hassler, Liz Scott, Karen Lo, Dan Tang, Caroline Howe   +11 more
openaire   +3 more sources

A Canadian Perspective on Learning Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
Canadian practice and research with children and adults with learning disabilities are described and analyzed. After an examination of the historical basis for current practice, the societal and cultural factors affecting education of children with learning disabilities, services for adults, and research are discussed.
J, Wiener, L, Siegel
openaire   +2 more sources

A German Perspective on Learning Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
German practices in the field of learning disabilities beyond preschool level are described in the context of their historical formation. In a historical perspective it becomes obvious that the German notion of Lernbehinderung, although being just a translation of “learning disabilities,” differs markedly from the American definition.
openaire   +2 more sources

Investigating intellectual disability: A genetic perspective

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2003
Abstract:  Intellectual disability (ID) is a common paediatric problem. Investigation focused on determining the aetiology of ID is warranted because a specific diagnosis may assist in prognostication, recurrence risk counselling, and identification of therapeutic and educational interventions.
openaire   +3 more sources

Models of disability: A critical perspective

Disability and Rehabilitation, 1997
(1997). Models of disability: A critical perspective. Disability and Rehabilitation: Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 478-479.
openaire   +2 more sources

Specific Learning Disabilities: A Neuropsychological Perspective

International Journal of Neuroscience, 1997
A dispersion in cognitive abilities is expected in normal populations. Specific learning disabilities would represent an extreme polarity in a continuum of normal cognitive dispersion. Three propositions relative to learning disabilities are advanced in the present paper.
openaire   +2 more sources

Just What Is the Disability Perspective on Disability?

Hastings Center Report, 2016
AbstractIn the helpful article “Why Bioethics Needs a Disability Moral Psychology,” Joseph Stramondo adds to the critique of actually existing bioethics and explains why disability activists and scholars so often find fault with the arguments of bioethicists.
openaire   +2 more sources