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Peer reviewedRaskind, Marshall H.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1995
A 1993 symposium was held in Missillac, France, to gather an international panel of experts to promote international dialog and cooperation, identify technologies for enhancing the lives of persons with learning disabilities, and establish research priorities. This article synthesizes key ideas and issues that emerged from individual presentations…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Conferences, Educational Technology, International Cooperation
Download full textDwyer, Kathy, Ed.; And Others – 1993
This proceedings contains presentations, workshop summaries, program profiles, and other highlights of a conference on rural disability issues. The major conference theme was the normalcy of having a disability. A plenary discussion developed a list of 17 rural community disability priorities. Keynote speeches were: (1) "Rural Economies and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advocacy, Community Programs, Community Relations
Rioux, Marcia H., Ed.; Bach, Michael, Ed. – 1994
This book is the product of a forum titled New Research Directions and Paradigms, held at the Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency in Australia in August 1992. The book presents 13 chapters, all written within a critical paradigm for disability research which critiques the reification of…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Civil Rights, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Mashaw, Jerry L., Ed.; And Others – 1996
This book contains 13 papers from a workshop convened to explore the causes of work disability and the types of interventions that might enable individuals to remain at work, return to work, or enter the work force for the first time, despite having chronic health conditions or impairments. Following an overview of the papers by editors Jerry L.…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adults, Assistive Devices (for Disabled)
Guggenheim, Eric Fries – 2003
Materials from Agora 12 demonstrate that the disabled are merely another side of ourselves and training for them is a means of developing and acquiring independence and of becoming absorbed into society. A Foreword outlines the subjects of the three sessions: social solidarity and mental disability; training of the mentally psychologically…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Cost Effectiveness, Developed Nations
