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Fichten, Catherine Susan; Heiman, Tali; Havel, Alice; Jorgensen, Mary; Budd, Jillian; King, Laura – Exceptionality Education International, 2016
We have examined the sustainability of providing services for students with disabilities in higher education in Canada and Israel. The two countries differ in their approaches: Israel subscribes to the accommodations model of service delivery; Canada, to the universal design approach. Case examples of services to students with disabilities in…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Access to Education, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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Al-Yagon, Michal – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
This study examined a cumulative model of vulnerability and protective factors at the individual level (children's attachment relationships with father and children's sense of coherence) and at the family level as manifested by fathers' coping resources (fathers' sense of coherence, fathers' active and avoidant coping strategies) in helping to…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Attachment Behavior, Coping, Path Analysis
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Gumpel, Thomas P.; Sharoni, Varda – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2007
We present an analysis of the current state of practice in the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities (LD) in Israel. Through an examination of the cultural, historical, and demographic background of the country ("deep structures"), we show how a fragmented society has developed; it segregates different ethnicities and social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Identification, Learning Disabilities, Evaluation Methods