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Download full textHouston Independent School District, 2013
The Office of Special Education Services (OSES) in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) supports students with disabilities in gaining college, career readiness, and independent living skills through active engagement in grade-level curriculum. The purpose of special education is to minimize the impact of the students' disability, while…
Descriptors: Special Education, School Districts, Urban Schools, Students with Disabilities
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Direct linkMorrier, Michael J.; Gallagher, Peggy A. – Journal of Special Education, 2012
More than 67,000 preschoolers with disabilities across five states were examined for disproportionate special education eligibilities using risk ratios (RRs). Results indicated children classified as American Indian (RR = 2.25) and Black (RR = 1.64) were disproportionate in one state, whereas children classified as Asian, Hispanic, and White…
Descriptors: Special Education, Developmental Delays, American Indians, Language Impairments
Eres, Figen – Online Submission, 2010
The quality and the prevalence of education are the major indicators of the development of a society. It is a kind of human right to every person living in the society to be educated in a sufficient way. The education of the disabled people, a social reality in Turkey, is not sufficiently carried out. This paper aims at the education of the…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Special Education
Wamocho, Franciscah I.; Karugu, Geoffrey K.; Nwoye, Augustine – British Journal of Special Education, 2008
In this article, Franciscah Wamocho, lecturer and chairperson, Geoffrey Karugu, senior lecturer, both in the Department of Special Education, and Augustine Nwoye, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, all from Kenyatta University in Nairobi, argue that people with disabilities are likely to need the support of counselling services.…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Educational Needs, Visual Impairments, Physical Disabilities
Haveman, Meindert; Perry, Jonathan; Salvador-Carulla, Luis; Walsh, Patricia Noonan; Kerr, Mike; Lantman-De Valk, Henny Van Schrojenstein; Van Hove, Geert; Berger, Dasa Moravec; Azema, Bernard; Buono, Serafino; Cara, Alexandra Carmen; Germanavicius, Arunas; Linehan, Christine; Maatta, Tuomo; Tossebro, Jan; Weber, Germain – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2011
Background: POMONA II was a European Commission public health-funded project. The research questions in this article focus on age-specific differences relating to environmental and lifestyle factors, and the 17 medical conditions measured by the POMONA Checklist of Health Indicators (P15). Method: The P15 was completed in a cross-sectional design…
Descriptors: Public Health, Check Lists, Life Style, Mental Retardation
Burgstahler, Sheryl – DO-IT, 2009
Precollege and college students come from a variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds. For some, English is not their first language. Also represented in most classes are students with a diversity of ages and learning styles, including visual and auditory. In addition, increasing numbers of students with disabilities are included in regular…
Descriptors: Printed Materials, Learning Disabilities, Hearing Impairments, Visual Aids
McColl, Mary Ann; Jarzynowska, Anna; Shortt, S. E. D. – Disability & Society, 2010
The present study examined population level data on unmet needs for adults with physical, sensory and cognitive disabilities, using the National Population Health Survey. The study revealed that disabled adults (aged 20-64) reported more than three times as many unmet health care needs as their non-disabled counterparts. Even after controlling for…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Emotional Problems, Hearing Impairments, Foreign Countries
Christensen, Laurene L.; Albus, Debra A.; Liu, Kristin K.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Kincaid, Aleksis – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2013
English language learners (ELLs) with disabilities are required to participate in all state and district assessments similar to their peers without disabilities. This includes assessments used for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I accountability purposes for demonstrating proficiency in academic content, assessments used…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, State Policy, Disabilities, Student Participation
Human Development Institute, 2010
Those who compiled and updated the information in this guide invite readers to take a second look at its title. In previous editions, it was assumed that it's called "Those of Us Disabled" but this time it is not because it is meant to make the reader think about how the label of disability is used and misused. The last word of the title…
Descriptors: Guides, Human Services, Public Agencies, Mental Retardation
Brady, Nancy C.; Bashinski, Susan M. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2008
Nine children with complex communication needs and concurrent vision and hearing losses participated in an intervention program aimed at increasing intentional prelinguistic communication. The intervention constituted a pilot, descriptive study of an adapted version of prelinguistic milieu teaching, hence referred to as A-PMT. In A-PMT, natural…
Descriptors: Intervention, Visual Impairments, Language Acquisition, Interpersonal Communication
National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness, 2012
The National Child Count of Children and Youth who are Deaf-Blind is the first and longest running registry and knowledge base of children who are deaf-blind in the world. Begun in 1986 on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education (Baldwin, 1993), it represents a thirty plus year collaborative effort between the National Consortium on…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Children, Databases, Agency Cooperation
Clark, Gordon – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2007
We all have what we may think of as our limits--degrees of competence we believe we cannot go beyond or skills we think we cannot master. It would be foolish to claim that each of us is capable of anything and everything to which we set our minds. But going to university is really about progressing beyond our perceived limits. In this article,…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), College Students, Dyslexia, Visual Impairments
Peltokorpi, Sini; Huttunen, Kerttu – British Journal of Visual Impairment, 2008
CHARGE syndrome is characterized by multiple physical abnormalities, and impaired vision and hearing. In this pilot study, communication in the early stage of language development in three one- to eight-year-old children with CHARGE syndrome was explored using video recorded free-play interaction sessions and a parental questionnaire. The children…
Descriptors: Young Children, Mothers, Visual Impairments, Hearing Impairments
Smith, Katherine G.; Smith, Isabel M.; Blake, Kim – Education and Treatment of Children, 2010
This paper introduces educators to CHARGE syndrome (CS), a multiple anomaly developmental syndrome that is usually accompanied by some degree of hearing and visual impairment. We describe the defining medical characteristics of the syndrome, and following this, outline the behavioral features commonly seen in individuals with CS. Throughout, we…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Visual Impairments, Student Characteristics, Developmental Disabilities
Gleason, Deborah – National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness, 2008
All babies communicate. It is through communication that relationships are formed and sustained. All parents must learn how to interpret and respond to their baby's communications in order to form the bonds that become the foundation for development. When a child has both a visual impairment and hearing loss, however, it may be more difficult to…
Descriptors: Parents, Cues, Visual Impairments, Deaf Blind
