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Martínez Monés, Alejandra; Georgiou, Yiannis; Villagrá Sobrino, Sara; Giambeluca, Stefania; Retalis, Symeon; Ioannou, Andri – Online Submission, 2019
The present report provides an overview of current practices on teacher training, and how teacher training covers the needs of students with disabilities under the paradigm of inclusive education. The report aims at analysing the situation in the Southern Europe, namely presenting the cases of Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Spain. After a general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Practices, Students with Disabilities
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Dhamdhere, Sangeeta, Ed.; Andres, Frederic, Ed. – IGI Global, 2022
In higher education systems, equal importance must be given to differently abled students. However, not all educational institutions have infrastructure and facilities to admit these students even though accessibility and support for these students is growing. There are many schemes, facilities, services, and financial assistance available to…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Students with Disabilities, College Students, Technology Uses in Education
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Baruch, Alona Forkosh, Ed.; Tal, Hagit Meishar, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
The use of mobile technology for learning in organizations and the workplace is spreading widely with the development of infrastructure and devices that allow ubiquitous learning and training. Since learning, teaching, and training in a mobile-saturated environment is a developing field, implications for a combined overview of these topics may be…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning, Best Practices, Workplace Learning
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Singh, Ajay, Ed.; Yeh, Chia Jung, Ed.; Blanchard, Sheresa, Ed.; Anunciação, Luis, Ed. – IGI Global, 2021
Rehabilitation professionals working with students with disabilities and the families of those students face unique challenges in providing inclusive services to special education student populations. There needs to be a focus on adaptive teaching methods that provide quality experience for students with varying disabilities to promote student…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Inclusion, Special Education, Teaching Methods
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Shahriar, Ambreen, Ed.; Syed, Ghazal Kazim, Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
The pursuit of higher education has become increasingly popular among students of many different backgrounds and cultures. As these students embark on higher learning, it is imperative for educators and universities to be culturally sensitive to their differing individualities. "Student Culture and Identity in Higher Education" is an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Identification (Psychology), Cultural Awareness
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Epler, Pam; Ross, Rorie – IGI Global, 2015
Educators today are challenged with the task of designing curricula and standards for students of varying abilities. While technology and innovation steadily improve classroom learning, teachers and administrators continue to struggle in developing the best methodologies and practices for students with disabilities. "Models for Effective…
Descriptors: Models, Delivery Systems, Special Education, Academic Support Services
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Dadds, Marion – Educational Action Research, 2008
This paper examines the concept of "empathetic validity," that is, the potential of practitioner research in its processes and outcomes to transform the emotional dispositions of people towards each other, such that greater empathy and regard are created. The paper argues that practitioner research that is high in empathetic validity…
Descriptors: Audiences, Validity, Teacher Researchers, Researchers
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Tozaki, Noriko; Shimizu, Hiroshi – Japanese Journal of Special Education, 1987
A survey of 203 Japanese schools confirmed the existence of 60 cases of nine different special education programs that had operated during the Taisho Era (1912-1926). Children enrolled were mostly underachievers; few were diagnosed as mentally retarded. A side product of this study was the discovery that many schools are preserving significant…
Descriptors: Archives, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, History
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Share, David L.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
Factors associated with arithmetic-and-reading disability and specific arithmetic disability were investigated in over 850 representative New Zealand children. Reverse patterns of strengths and weaknesses with regard to verbal and nonverbal skills for these two types of arithmetic disability were found for boys but not for girls. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities
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Siegel, Linda S.; Ryan, Ellen B. – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Studied was the development of a variety of grammatical-sensitivity and phonological skills in normally achieving, reading-disabled, arithmetic-disabled, and attention deficit disordered children 7 to 14 years old. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
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Priel, Beatrice; Leshem, Tamar – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
The self-perceptions of 44 first and second grade Israeli children with learning disabilities (LD) and their 36 nondisabled classmates were assessed. LD children were found to have a greater positive bias and lower self-perception in the cognitive competence domain and similar perceptions as nondisabled peers of peer acceptance despite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Peer Acceptance, Primary Education
van Kraayenoord, Christina E. – 1992
This study used a longitudinal design to examine the possibility of a causal link between metacognitive knowledge and reading performance across time in a group of grade 2 Australian children (1989 cohort, N=100; 1990 cohort, N=90) with and without learning disabilities. Revaluation between 1 and 2 years later found: no relationship between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Learning Disabilities, Longitudinal Studies
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Watts, Walter J. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1985
To assess Feuerstein's Learning Potential Assessment Device's (LPAD) ability to identify deficient cognitive functions, Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices were administered to 176 elementary/junior high students--25 percent were rescored--and 12 complete LPAD reports from a university educational clinic were reanalyzed. Correlations were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
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Glez, Juan E. Jimenez; Lopez, Mercedes Rodrigo – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
A sample of 133 Spanish children (ages 8 to 13) was classified by IQ and reading level and given a lexical processing task. The study found that IQ did not explain differences between learning-disabled (LD) or nondisabled (NLD) children in lexical processing. Lexical and sublexical parameters had a greater influence on LD students than NLD…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Schoenhofer, Betty – 1991
This study evaluated the validity of using an earplug so that information is presented to only one ear of children (N=34) in Alberta, Canada, with learning disabilities as a means of improving listening comprehension. Children were asked to recall stories from the Auditory Comprehension Test (ACT) immediately after hearing the story. The children…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Auditory Perception, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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