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Pfahl, Lisa; Powell, Justin J. W. – Disability & Society, 2011
School segregation continues to be understood as legitimate in Germany. To explain why, we chart the development of the learning disability discourse and the special education profession, providing insights into the ongoing expansion of segregated special schooling. The discourse analysis of articles published between 1908 and 2004 in the special…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Learning Disabilities, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Opp, Gunther – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
This article highlights the scientific contributions of nineteenth-century German researchers in describing neuropsychologic dysfunction and in conceptualizing and cerebrally localizing clinical syndromes associated with learning disabilities. Noted are contributions of Pierre Paul Broca, Carl Wernicke, Ludwig Lichtheim, Hugo Karl Liepmann, B.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, Learning Disabilities, Neurology
Garnett, Katherine, Ed.; Gerber, Paul, Ed. – 1985
The collection presents six articles giving international perspectives on learning disabled (LD) adults. G. Gray begins with an analysis of "Vocational Guidance for Dyslexic School Leavers and Adults in Great Britain," in which he notes coping strategies to be used in the workplace and describes the evolution of societal attitudes to LD…
Descriptors: Adults, Education Work Relationship, Employment, Foreign Countries