1000 Search Results for Disability
empathy must be accorded to the child, that teacher helps child master words in ways that are most congruent to the child, that teacher must 'step into the child's shoes' (i.e. go down to his level) in order to help him best, that the child must be Continue Reading...
The second is the development of a research method that takes into account many aspects of the perceptions of patients regarding their condition and their treatment program. This study will play an important role in future medical decisions regardin Continue Reading...
Methods for evaluating and monitoring the effectiveness of peer-assisted learning programs are discussed as well, followed by a summary of the literature review.
Background and Overview.
The growing body of scholarly evidence concerning peer tutor Continue Reading...
S.A., Canada, the UK, Australia, and Finland.
To begin, the age range of study populations can be problematic, as the social experiences and social environment of an 85-year-old may be wildly divergent than an 11-year-old, for example. Further, the Continue Reading...
In order for the study to be conducted properly, it would be expected to use the literature review method of examination. This is the logical way to conduct this type of study. However, there is not that much literature available. Because of this, Continue Reading...
Just as I have been able to take advantage of therapy, technology, and training, I expect that new developments will ease communications skills for autistic children.
In a culture that strongly emphasizes literacy as a primary, fundamental social s Continue Reading...
ADA Today and Its Application
Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which took effect July 26, 1992, stops private employers, state and local governments, employment agencies and labor unions from discriminating against qualified i Continue Reading...
Melanie's frequency of inappropriate behavior was not consistent; she experienced unpredictable increases and decreases in hair pulling, screaming, scratching, and tantrum behavior.
The study occurred in a self-contained classroom for children and Continue Reading...
Tom: A Case Study
Three themes that emerge from the case study of Tom are 1) Parent advocacy is key to helping the student with a learning disability overcome obstacles, 2) Early referral is another factor in assisting in this achievement, and 3) Pe Continue Reading...
Sexuality and Severe Brain Injury
Ethical issue
The ethical issue in this case study is the fact that Mr. Z decides to have sexual intercourse with his wife Mrs. Z who is brain damaged. Her current state does not allow her to make any valid and sob Continue Reading...
Discrimination
The mentioned acts have a common thread of setting boundaries for discrimination in the workplace. Each act makes illegal discrimination in the workplace on the basis of specific personal traits. In a sense, most of the acts are built Continue Reading...
Employment Compliance
Employment law for a limousine service in Austin, Texas with 25 employees would consist of the American with Disabilities Act, Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Equal Opportunity Law, OSHA, and Unemployment Benefits Law. The Am Continue Reading...
Health and Social Care
Role of leisure activities in well being
Leisure activities are defined as activities an individual participates in outside work, business, or domestic chores. Some of the leisure activities an individual can undertake to pro Continue Reading...
Handicapped:' a substitute word or phrase that communicates a more positive attitude toward people with disabilities
The difficulties we have in talking about people with disabilities are not simply failures of language. They also reflect the diffi Continue Reading...
Employment Law Policies for XYZ
Describe and explain all the possible employment laws that could govern the employment at XYZ.
Job discrimination. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits hiring, firing or pay discrimination based solely Continue Reading...
United States Deaf Olympics
Deaf Olympics
While sport is vital in anyone's life, it may be even of great significance to the individual with a disability. This is due to sport's rehabilitative power to affect persons especially power based on prest Continue Reading...
Psychotherapeutic Case Formulation
Salomon has clearly evidenced educational and emotional problems at least since the 6th grade; however, this 9th grader has apparently neither been thoroughly physically and psychiatrically evaluated, nor received Continue Reading...
Teaching Manding Through Functional Communication
Teaching Manding Thorugh Functional Communication Training To A 53-year-old Man With Cerebral Palsy
Self-injurious behavior (SIB) usually occurs in mentally retarded persons. There are certain genet Continue Reading...
structure of standardized testing in K-12 education. As Wisconsin and the federal government need some manner to gauge teacher performance and student progress it falls on educators to find effective means of testing special education students. The Continue Reading...
inequality in Canada, one of the most interesting, and depressing, factors is the way in which seemingly unrelated demographic factors work together to present difficulties above and beyond those faced by any single group, while simultaneously demon Continue Reading...
Social Worker's Dilemma
A Social Worker's Moral Dilemma:
The Kantian & Utilitarian Approach
A Social Worker's Dilemma:
A Kantian & Utilitarian Approach
While Philosophy is the investigation of the ultimate questions of life, e.g., Is th Continue Reading...
The employer has an established protocol for dealing with allegations of sexual harassment, and a sexual harassment complaint triggers protections for the employee. An employee engaging in sexual harassment of any other employees, clients, or busine Continue Reading...
Disorders include such mental illnesses as mood disorders, like bipolar disorder, or obsessive compulsive disorder which involves a variety of anxieties, compulsions, obsessions, and phobias. Without treatment sufferers are unable to adapt to social Continue Reading...
Lesson plans should closely follow the IEP goals.
Disabilities should be an essential part of any curriculum discussion because it can impact a student's ability to learn certain material. Dylexic students for instance will have a fundamentally har Continue Reading...
McKinley (2005) calls for the use of these varying technologies to give students with language disorders a sense of empowerment so they can then overcome their problem and learn as they are capable of learning. Technology has offered a means of tre Continue Reading...
The truth that electronics aid humanity may be a subject for debate. However, it must be noted that nothing else may beat your doubt on electronics but the fact that we can derive from others' experiences that the technological advances in electron Continue Reading...
Brown (1987) points out that learning disabled children lacking social skills may grow into adults that lack the "vital skills of social interaction" thus their lives may be filled with unnecessary struggles and unemployment. Factors that can help Continue Reading...
Emotions affect how memories are processed, stored, and retrieved, which also impacts how learning takes place. Perhaps more importantly, emotions impact cognitive processes and learning. Neuroscience shows the ways thoughts are processed depends on Continue Reading...
Learning Disability Student ESL
There is an urgent necessity to help reading-disabled pupils read, since weak reading skills are linked to serious consequences. Children who fail at reading properly will be prone to dropping out of school and facin Continue Reading...
Preventing Workplace Discrimination
The relevance of enhancing equality at the workplace cannot be overstated. It is important to note, from the onset, that discrimination at the workplace could assume various forms. These include, but they are not Continue Reading...
Military Diversity
Diversity in the Armed forces
For over three decades, military diversity has been a very complex topic within the defense units or national security departments for many nations. This arises when it comes to matters of conceptual Continue Reading...
HR Task Performance
Human resources and HR managers contain enormous potential in their ability to align a larger corporate strategy into its own inner workings. Specifically, HR managers working within PM and leadership for elderly services can gre Continue Reading...
References
Corona, F., Perrotta, F., Polcini, E.T., & Cozzarelli, C. (2012). Dyslexia: An altered brain architecture. Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 2, 235-237. Retrieved April 28, 2013, from http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/results? Continue Reading...
Here, we can observe several of the greatest benefits of assistive technology in special education. Such is to say that many linguistic, mathematic or otherwise basic educational programs may be designed to help facilitate the special needs learner Continue Reading...
(Frederickson, 2000, p. 3) Police forces became the fodder for systematic research on the need for and development of improved minority representation in public service as well as a frequently attached public entity with regard to minority status in Continue Reading...
This being the case, the Court ruled that the employer had to make reasonable accommodations in the training of the deaf employees. When the training involves both visual and audio information, it is not enough to simply state that the deaf workers Continue Reading...
Another possibility is to allow companies to convert traditional defined-benefit pensions, which encourage retirement as early as age 55, to cash-balance plans, which have no built-in incentives to retire. Perhaps the most controversial idea is to b Continue Reading...
Education
Discuss the relevant information about the student's behaviors. What factors early on contribute to how she is today?
Liz, a 15-year-old high school Freshman, has been exhibiting certain behaviors lately and in the past that have been aff Continue Reading...
Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) bans age discrimination in hiring and firing of employees. The act specifically states that an age limit on any occupation may only be specified in the rare circumstance where age has been proven to be a bo Continue Reading...
Brookwood Community is a community in Brookshire, Texas, which is organized around meeting the needs of special-needs adults. The campus consists of eight group homes, two staff homes, a residential Inn, health and dental clinics, greenhouses, a rest Continue Reading...