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Assessing School Engagement – Adaptation and Validation of “Engagement Versus Disaffection With Learning: Teacher Report” in the Swedish Educational Context

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2020
To follow the trajectories of children’s engagement in learning, validated measures of engagement appropriate for different ages and educational contexts are needed. The purpose of this study was to adapt and validate the school engagement questionnaire (
Andrea Ritoša   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Post-Secondary Education Outcomes for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Self-Determination, Independent Living, Employment, and the Impact of COVID-19

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2023
Post-secondary education (PSE) plays an important role in preparing individuals with an intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) to gain employment and independent living.
Dalun Zhang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Disability Lens towards Biases in GPT-3 Generated Open-Ended Languages [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Language models (LM) are becoming prevalent in many language-based application spaces globally. Although these LMs are improving our day-to-day interactions with digital products, concerns remain whether open-ended languages or text generated from these models reveal any biases toward a specific group of people, thereby risking the usability of a ...
arxiv  

Quality here, there and everywhere: the application of a multi-dimensional learning tool to learning disability health services [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The following paper examines the applicability of Maxwell’s (1984) Multi-dimensional Quality Evaluation model to community learning disability health services.
McKenzie, Karen   +3 more
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Common visual problems in children with disability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Children with disability are at a substantially higher risk of visual impairment (VI) (10.5% compared with 0.16%) but also of ocular disorders of all types, including refractive errors and strabismus.
Salt, A, Sargent, J
core   +2 more sources

The All Together Group: Co‐Designing a Toolkit of Approaches and Resources for End‐of‐Life Care Planning With People With Intellectual Disabilities in Social Care Settings

open access: yesHealth Expectations
Introduction Support staff within social care settings have expressed a need for resources to facilitate end‐of‐life care planning with people with intellectual disabilities.
Andrea Bruun   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Biases in NLP Models as Barriers for Persons with Disabilities [PDF]

open access: yesACL 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
arxiv  

Neurorehab: An Interface for Rehabilitation [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 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 ...
arxiv  

Exploring Essential Characteristics of Self-Determination for Diverse Students Using Data From NLTS2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study explored the impact of race/ethnicity on three of the four essential characteristics of self-determination—autonomy, self-realization, and psychological empowerment—directly assessed in the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 ...
Dowsett, Chantelle   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Mathematics and Learning Disabilities [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Learning Disabilities, 2004
Between 5% and 8% of school-age children have some form of memory or cognitive deficit that interferes with their ability to learn concepts or procedures in one or more mathematical domains. A review of the arithmetical competencies of these children is provided, along with discussion of underlying memory and cognitive deficits and potential neural ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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