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The Conundrum of Training and Capacity Building for People with Learning Disabilities Doing Research
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2015 Background This study explores the training involved when people with learning disabilities take their place in the community as researchers. This was a theme in a recent UK seminar series where a network of researchers explored pushing the boundaries of
M. Nind, R. Chapman, J. Seale, L. Tilley
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Gifted education in Morocco: An exploration via learning resources
Cogent Education, 2023 This paper explored the status quo of gifted education in the Moroccan context. The Moroccan educational system remains subtle with regards to giftedness; thereby necessitating to question the communal understanding of gifted education. This study used a
Luma Alsalah, Nadia Tazi
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Social Biases in NLP Models as Barriers for Persons with Disabilities [PDF]
ACL 2020, 2020 Building equitable and inclusive NLP technologies demands consideration of whether and how social attitudes are represented in ML models. In particular, representations encoded in models often inadvertently perpetuate undesirable social biases from the data on which they are trained. In this paper, we present evidence of such undesirable biases towards
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Neurorehab: An Interface for Rehabilitation [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 About 15% of the world population is affected by a disability in some form, amongst whom only 31% perform the recommended exercises without intervention. We are working on developing a motivating and effective way to encourage people. In our work, we leverage the fact that repetitive exercises can help people with motor disabilities due to the robust ...
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Implementation of Automata Theory to Improve the Learning Disability [PDF]
Sindh Univ. Res. Jour. (Sci. Ser.) Vol. 45 (1):1193-196 (2013), 2013 There are various types of disability egress in world like blindness, deafness, and Physical disabilities. It is quite difficult to deal with people with disability. Learning disability (LD) is types of disability totally different from general disability. To deal children with learning disability is difficult for both parents and teacher.
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Predictive Models of Word Reading Fluency in Hebrew
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study examined a multi-componential approach to reading fluency in first and third grade Hebrew speaking children. Measures of naming speed, phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness (MA), syntax awareness, and vocabulary were ...
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AI Fairness for People with Disabilities: Point of View [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 We consider how fair treatment in society for people with disabilities might be impacted by the rise in the use of artificial intelligence, and especially machine learning methods. We argue that fairness for people with disabilities is different to fairness for other protected attributes such as age, gender or race.
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Non-adaptive strategy selection in adults with high mathematical anxiety
Scientific Reports, 2018 Participants with mathematical anxiety (MA) tend to show particular difficulty in mathematical operations with high working memory (WM) demands compared to operations with lower WM demands.
Sarit Ashkenazi, Deema Najjar
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Does Acute Stress Impact Declarative and Procedural Learning?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 It is well established that acute stress can influence memory function, yet its influence may differ across memory systems. Whereas stress sometimes exerts a negative influence on declarative learning, it does not necessarily harm learning in general, as
Ranin Ballan +3 more
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Breaking Barriers: Assistive Technology Tool as Educational Software to support Writing [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 The preliminary report by Siriraj Hospital suggested that 6% of population who are students in Thailand could be estimated to have learning disabilities. It is therefore necessary for our institute to develop suitable ICT technologies to assist the education of these learning disabilities children.
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