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Colwell, Chetz; Jelfs, Anne; Mallett, Elizabeth – Learning, Media & Technology, 2005
This paper reports the findings from an observational study of a digital video library system, DiVA, involving deaf students and students with other medical conditions affecting their use of video material. The Digital Video Applications (DiVA) system supports searching for and playing educational videos, and displays transcripts of the audio…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Disability Discrimination, Deafness, Disabilities
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2005
In this article, the author talks about Everton Football Club's Football in the Community programme, a disability football programme in the UK that helps disabled people come out of their shells and play an active role in life. Everton's disability football programme is about getting disabled people in, giving them help in moving on to take…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Foreign Countries
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Booth, Tim; Booth, Wendy; McConnell, David – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2005
Background: Parents with learning difficulties are known to face a high risk of losing their children. This paper reports findings from a study designed to throw light on the numbers of parents with learning difficulties and their children coming before the Family Courts in Children Act proceedings and what happened to them as a result. Method:…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Placement, Mental Retardation, Disability Discrimination
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Cumming, J. Joy; Dickson, Elizabeth A. – Education and the Law, 2007
Assessment equity concerns all educational authorities and practitioners. When educators consider issues of equity, their predominant concern is accommodation of students with special needs, cultural issues, and creating alternative assessment activities that have equivalence to standard activities, so as not to advantage or disadvantage any…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students, Social Justice
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Riddick, Barbara; English, Eve – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2006
Teacher trainers in England and Wales are clearly instructed they must satisfy themselves that their trainees can reach the specified English literacy standards. This has led to a particular focus on dyslexic applicants and a questioning of their suitability for teaching. In 2003 the Disability Discrimination Act as applied to education also made…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Teacher Selection, Teacher Educators, Teacher Education
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Barfield, J. P.; Bennett, J.; Folio, M. R.; Killman, C. – Quest, 2007
The number of students with disabilities pursuing higher education is increasing; therefore, faculty and administrators have a growing need to understand their responsibilities in preventing discrimination against this population (Gamble, 2000). The purpose of this article is to articulate disability legislation mandates and applications to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Grievance Procedures, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Ruggeri-Stevens, Geoff; Goodwin, Susan – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: The paper alerts small business employers to new dictates of the Disability Discrimination Act (2005) as it applies to learning disabilities. Then the "Learning to Work" project featured in the paper offers small business employers a set of approaches and methods for the identification of a learning-disabled young adult…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Supported Employment, Small Businesses, Disability Discrimination
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Handler, Beth R. – American Educational History Journal, 2007
Prior to the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975 (PL 94-142), the educational experience of disabled children and youth was varied and uncertain. Many children and youth with sensory, physical or cognitive impairments received minimal skill development training in institutions, separate day classes, church basements…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Federal Legislation
Asch, Adrienne; And Others – 1984
Intended for feminist, educational, and disability rights groups, the manual examines the connection between discrimination based on gender and discrimination based on disability. Disability is addressed as a political, civil rights issue, a human relations issue, and as a personal experience. Background information on the disability rights…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Females
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Trippi, Joseph; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1978
One-hundred prospective landlords were surveyed to investigate public attitudes toward housing for mentally retarded citizens. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Adults, Disability Discrimination, Housing Discrimination, Mental Retardation
Watson, Emily Strauss – Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, 1984
Describes an all-day conciousness raising program designed to teach elementary school students about the disabled. The program described consisted of oral presentations and a theater performance by disabled individuals; it was presented to 270 students at Mary A. Hubbard School in Ramsey, New Jersey. (GC)
Descriptors: Assembly Programs, Attitude Change, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination
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Fulton, Sally A.; Sabornie, Edward J. – Journal of Special Education, 1994
This article reviews studies dealing with the employment outcomes of females and males with disabilities and offers recommendations to special educators. It suggests that women with disabilities are dually disadvantaged in employment when gender interacts with disability. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Butz, Timothy – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1998
Traces the history behind the provisions of the 1998 Fair Housing Act amendments that relate to people with disabilities and reviews the provisions of this law as they have been applied in Nebraska. Outlines lessons for other states interesting in bringing properties into compliance with the law. (SLD)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Compliance (Legal), Cooperation, Disabilities
Kozlowski, James C. – Parks & Recreation, 2000
Describes a situation in which a middle school child with poor attendance due to medical problems was denied a place in the school's show choir. She subsequently became depressed as her mother fought for her right to participate and the school actively excluded her. The paper examines the mother's complaint under the Americans with Disabilities…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Court Litigation, Depression (Psychology), Disabilities
Wehmeyer, Michael L. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1998
This article reviews how the term "self-determination" has been defined and conceptualized, examines misperceptions of the term that may have contributed to the exclusion of people with severe disabilities, and seeks to find common ground to move forward to promote self-determination for people with severe disabilities. (Author/PB)
Descriptors: Adults, Consciousness Raising, Disability Discrimination, Empowerment
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