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Rights and responsibilities: The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) and adults with learning disabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The purpose of this research is to examine Part III (access to goods, facilities and services) of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 in relation to people with learning disabilities.
Lerpiniere, Jennifer, Stalker, Kirsten
core  

Educating teachers toward immigrant empowerment and liberation in the United States and Chile: A funds of knowledge perspective

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how university‐based teacher education programs in diverse historical, sociocultural, and political settings in the U.S. and in Chile, served to foster immigrant empowerment and liberation. Using a Funds of Knowledge approach, the study analyzed the educational practices of migrant families and their integration into ...
Ana Christina da Silva Iddings   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Adult Social Care in Supporting People with Learning Disabilities Who Rent Their Own Homes in England

open access: yesJournal of Long-Term Care
Context: Evidence suggests that very few people with learning disabilities in England rent their own homes through the private or social housing rental sector.
Eppie Leishman   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Applying clustering based on rules on WHO-DAS II for knowledge discovery on functional disabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The senior citizens represent a fast growing proportion of the population in Europe and other developed areas. This increases the proportion of persons with disability and reducing quality of life.
Annicchiarico, Roberta   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Virtual Agent Tutors in Sheltered Workshops: A Feasibility Study on Attention Training for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
In this work, we evaluate the feasibility of socially assistive virtual agent-based cognitive training for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) in a sheltered workshop. The Robo- Camp system, originally developed for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), is adapted based on the results of a pilot study in which we ...
arxiv  

Learning Disability as a Problem of Motivation

open access: bronze, 1972
Robert R. Ward, Phillip W. Trembley
openalex   +1 more source

An ethical dilemma in the learning disability services: too much money [PDF]

open access: hybrid, 1994
Helen Matthews   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

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