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U.S. Ninth Graders’ Math Course Placement at the Intersection of Learning Disability Status, Race, and Socioeconomic Status

AERA Open, 2023
This study integrates an intersectional framework with data on 15,000 U.S. ninth graders from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 to investigate differences in ninth-grade math course placement at the intersection of adolescents’ learning ...
Dara Shifrer
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Functional disability among older adults in India; a gender perspective.

PLoS ONE, 2022
IntroductionOlder adults are always at a greater risk of physical and functional health challenges. These complications result into morbidity, disability and death making them more vulnerable at later ages.
Manzoor Ahmad Malik
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From Criminalisation to Individual Choice: Policy Responses to Changing Constructions of Intellectual Disability in Western Australia

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2019
This article uses an historical perspective to explore how constructions of disability influenced policy and services for people with intellectual disabilities in Western Australia (WA) from the time of British colonisation until the present day.
Wendy Simpson, Trudi Cooper, Vicki Banham   +2 more
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The Implementation of the NDIS: Who Wins, Who Loses? [PDF]

, 2014
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a major paradigm shift in funding and support for people with disability in Australia. It is a person centered model that has at its core a change in government funding away from service providers direct
Green, Jenny, Mears, Jane
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Disability among patients with opioid use disorders and its relationship with stigma toward substance use

Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2018
Background: From a medical model perspective of substance use disorders (SUDs), opioid use disorders are associated with some degree of disability.
Saurabh Kumar, Swarndeep Singh, Siddharth Sarkar, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara   +3 more
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Disability in court: intersectionality and rule of law

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2015
Intersectionality is a commonly used perspective in issues regarding social inequality and injustice in several fields, and has also been introduced in disability studies. In legal systems, social inequality and rule of law are closely connected.
Camilla Lundberg, Eva Simonsen
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Perspectives of two college students labeled with intellectual disability: Supports during the moving in and through stages of transition

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2022
An increasing number of students labeled with intellectual disability are attending colleges and universities. Yet, their perspectives are underrepresented in the research.
Amanda L. Miller, Mina Chun
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Indigenous Perspectives of Disability

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2018
This article contributes to the discourse on disability from an indigenous perspective, an area which has not been investigated in any detail. It explores the perceptions of disability and lived experiences of 18 indigenous individuals with impairments from Australia, Mexico and New Zealand.
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Disabling practices

Cogent Social Sciences, 2017
Following Foucault’s theory of discourse this article aims at reformulating the established concept of disability. To this end, the author reconstructs ways in which disabling practices of subjectivation occur in and through public media discourses.
Hendrik Trescher
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The intersection of depression and disability: A personal and professional perspective

South African Journal of Psychiatry
No abstract available.
Jean E. Augustyn
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