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Bartlett, Diana; Moody, Sylvia – 2000
This book is designed for both adults with dyslexia and for professionals concerned with helping them, such as psychologists, tutors, therapists, researchers, disability advisors, and welfare officers. It also offers advice to employers on how to help staff with dyslexia. The text covers the nature of dyslexic difficulties and their effects, both…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Civil Rights Legislation, Clinical Diagnosis
Ekstrom, Ruth B., Ed.; Smith, Douglas K., Ed. – 2002
This book is designed to assist testing professionals as they face the challenge of how best to assess and test people with disabilities. Chapters include: (1) "Testing Individuals with Disabilities: Reconciling Social Science and Social Policy" (Diana Pullin); (2) "The Psychometrics of Testing Individuals with Disabilities"…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Adults, Civil Rights, College Admission
A Guide to Reasonable Accommodation for OT Practitioners with Disabilities: Fieldwork to Employment.
Wells, Shirley A., Comp.; Hanebrink, Sandy, Comp. – 1998
This handbook provides information to occupational therapy clinicians and students with disabilities, fieldwork educators, and employers on issues of accommodation, disclosure, rights, responsibilities, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It begins with a discussion of the disability rights movement, and employment and people with…
Descriptors: Adults, Civil Rights Legislation, Confidentiality, Disabilities
Wehman, Paul, Ed. – 1998
One of a series of guides that provides practical resources on topics critical to the process of preparing individuals with disabilities for adulthood, this volume is designed to help special education teachers, guidance and rehabilitation counselors, parents, advocates, and psychologists become familiar with how to develop individual transition…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination
Heyward, Salome M. – 1992
This book presents an analysis of and guide to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Part I considers the evolution of compliance standards under Section 504 with chapters on civil rights compliance standards, nondiscrimination versus affirmative action, and the recipient's obligation. Part II provides an overview of Section 504 covering:…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Civil Rights Legislation, College Admission, Compliance (Legal)
