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Taking service providers to court: people with learning disabilities and Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 [PDF]

, 2009
Despite evidence of poor service provision for people with learning disabilities in the UK (e.g. DRC, Code of practice. Rights of access: services to the public, public authority functions, private clubs and premises. London: The Stationery Office, 2006;
Lerpiniere, Jennifer, Stalker, Kirsten
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Note-Taking Skill Among Bilingual Students in Academia: Literacy, Language and Cognitive Examination

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
The ability to take notes while listening to a lecture is important and complicated. The main goal of the current study was to examine note-taking skills among students with Hebrew as a first language (L1) and students with Arabic as a first language and
Mona Asaly-Zetawi, Orly Lipka, Orly Lipka   +2 more
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Reading Self-Concept and Reading Anxiety in Second Grade Children: The Roles of Word Reading, Emergent Literacy Skills, Working Memory and Gender

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Background: Most studies in the field of reading have focused on the linguistic and cognitive factors. Less is known about the affective aspects of reading in young readers, such as self-perceptions of reading, and reading anxiety.Aims: This study aimed ...
Tami Katzir, Young-Suk G. Kim, Shahar Dotan   +2 more
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Intra-Subject Variability in Mathematical Learning Difficulties

Journal of Cognition, 2022
Objective: Mathematical learning difficulties (MLD) are characterized by difficulties in the understanding and processing of numbers and quantities. While MLD is related mainly to numerical deficits, studies show that this population has several other ...
Sharon Levy, Liat Goldfarb
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Specific learning disability [PDF]

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2018
AbstractSpecific learning disabilities (SLD) have an impact on discrete areas of academic function. They result in a level of difficulty that is unexpected when considered in the context of a student's overall intellectual and academic competence. A common example is dyslexia, an SLD that affects the acquisition of literacy.
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The Five Accomplishments: A Framework for Obtaining Customer Feedback in a Health Service Community Learning Disability Team [PDF]

, 1998
The usefulness of using the philosophy of normalisation and, in particular, O`Brien`s (1992) Five Accomplishments as a basis for evaluating client satisfaction with a community based health service learning disabilities team was examined.
Kidd, Gill, Lakhani, Shradha, McKenzie, Karen, Murray, George, Sinclair, Bridget   +4 more
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Health and Social Care Staff Awareness of Menopausal Symptoms in Adults With Intellectual Disability: Results From a Survey

BJPsych Open
Aims Menopausal symptoms often go unrecognised in individuals with intellectual disability (ID). There is growing societal awareness of the impact of menopause on mental health, yet this has not been replicated in the ID population. In light of this, we
Jack Wilson, Niall O'Kane, Bernice Knight, Angelica Lindsey-Clark, Jessdeep Rai   +4 more
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The short- and long-term effects of a computerized reading training program on reading self-concept in second and third grade readers

Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2019
While computerized reading programs were found to enhance reading skills, less is known about their influence on reading self-concept (RSC). The current study aimed to examine short- and long-term effects of two versions of a computerized reading ...
Ronen Kasperski, Michal Shany, Tal Erez-Hod, Tami Katzir   +3 more
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An intervention for people with learning disabilities and epilepsy [PDF]

, 2015
Date of Acceptance: 09/01/2015Epilepsy is relatively common in people with learning disabilities, and can be complex and refractory to treatment, with negative effects on quality of life and service costs.
Durand, Marie-Anne, Gates, Bob, Mengoni, Silvana   +2 more
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Transforming Teacher Knowledge to Practice: Exploring the Impact of a Professional Development Model on Teachers’ Literacy Instruction and Self-Efficacy

Education Sciences
One of the primary challenges of any educational system is providing effective professional development (PD) for teachers, which will integrate knowledge that can be translated into practice.
Orly Lipka, Adi Bufman, Shelley Shaul, Tami Katzir   +3 more
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