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Naidoo, R. M. – 1990
Public policies towards special needs persons in advanced countries have improved tremendously over the last 20 to 30 years, whether the concept is described as mainstreaming, integration, or normalization. Both educational and family policies are changing, with educational policies emphasizing free and appropriate education in the least…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Apartheid, Delivery Systems, Developed Nations
Peer reviewedBarber, Catherine Miller – University of Dayton Law Review, 1978
Section 504's prohibiting discrimination solely on the basis of handicap against otherwise qualified individuals in programs receiving federal funds was the basis of a deaf student's claim that an institution's failure to provide an interpreter violated Section 504. Implications for private colleges and possible grounds for appeal are discussed.…
Descriptors: Court Doctrine, Court Litigation, Deaf Interpreting, Deafness
Download full textFurther Education Unit, London (England). – 1992
This document describes one model for supporting learning. It introduces the idea of essential entitlements and variants and places the support needs of students with disabilities or learning difficulties alongside the particular arrangements made for every student's learning. Introductory sections propose the idea of technical college…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Continuing Education, Disabilities
Stapleton, David C., Ed.; Burkhauser, Richard V., Ed. – 2003
This book includes revised presentations from an October 2001 meeting of the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research and the Cornell Rehabilitation Research and Training Center that considered the validity of current data for measuring trends in the employment rate of people with disabilities and investigated the causes and…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Chronic Illness, Data Interpretation
Peer reviewedBrooks, Gary Thomas – Mercer Law Review, 1978
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was the basis for a deaf student's successful suit against a private college for failure to provide funds for an interpreter. Implications for private colleges and an argument for the unconstitutionality of the law as applied to private postsecondary institutions are discussed. (AF)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Constitutional Law, Court Doctrine, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedReed, Carole Ann; Lass, Harold – Canadian Social Studies, 1995
Explores the usefulness of employing an antiracist framework to teach Holocaust education. Maintains that different forms of discrimination are linked psychologically. Asserts that Holocaust education can be used also to teach about disabled individuals, homosexuals, and other groups who suffer discrimination. (CFR)
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Critical Thinking, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Robey, Elaine, Ed. – 1992
A federally sponsored project explored educational practices, originating in diverse communities, in which teachers used educational technology in innovative ways to meet the needs of children with disabilities. This booklet describes projects at 11 sites around the United States. It presents a model for technology integration, emphasizes the need…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Computer Uses in Education
