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Rachel Leslie; Alice Brown; Ellen Larsen – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2025
Current understandings of disability experience are centered around individuals who hold the disability identity and membership in the marginalized group. This perspective does not include the experiences of disability allies, such as parents, who act alongside their children to support their access and engagement in the education setting. This…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Family School Relationship
Anastasia Liasidou; Sotiroula Liasidou – Power and Education, 2025
The article discusses recent Higher Education (HE) initiatives to introduce the Sunflower Scheme, which enables students with hidden disabilities to 'discreetly' indicate the existence of a disability to access support. A significant problem related to persons with hidden disabilities lies in their frequent reluctance to disclose their…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Bias
Unwin, Stephen – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
It is perhaps inevitable that the academic study of learning disabilities is often undertaken by established scholars with little lived experience of the condition. So, what has it been like for someone from outside the academy, with a long career in the arts, who is also the father of a severely learning-disabled young man, to write a book-length…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Educational History, Educational Research, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Mercédès Adell Cannon; David I. Hernández-Saca – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
This article consists of critical autoethnographic counter-narrative vignettes that account for how the boundary work within the traditional Special Education and Disability Studies in Education fields can further understand the sub-field of Learning Disabilities and the related field of Speech and Language Impairment from an interdisciplinary and…
Descriptors: Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Blacks
Datta, Poulomee – Curriculum and Teaching, 2020
The present review traces the historical trajectory of special educational needs and disabilities, depicting the changing attitudes towards children with disabilities over time. The tracing of the history presents how special educational needs evolved and was broadened instead of categorization and labelling. The meaning and nature of special…
Descriptors: Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Educational Needs
Diamond, Lindsay Lile; Hogue, Lindsey B. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2021
Students with disabilities are likely to have contact with a police officer as either a victim or a perpetrator of a crime; however, media outlets often underreport the presence of a disability. The lack of acknowledgment of disabilities raises concerns regarding the ability of a police officer to support a person with a disability. Likewise,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances
Holman, Andrew – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
Paul Richards is one of those individuals who make a difference and is as far from institutional as one can be. The author met up with him at the Learning Disability Today conference in London to talk more about his work and life. Paul coordinates the service user involvement across Southdown Housing Association, based in Sussex.
Descriptors: Profiles, Change Agents, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Holman, Andrew – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
Athletes with learning disabilities have had a difficult time being included in the Paralympics. They have faced a lot of discrimination, including from other disabled athletes, and just when they were finally included (at the Sydney games in 2000), the Spanish Basketball team cheated by having players on their team who did not have learning…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Athletes, Team Sports
Sheerin, Fintan K. – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
It is being increasingly recognised that the achievement of improved health outcomes for people with learning disabilities is central to the role of learning disability nurses. This is in recognition of the fact that an increasing body of evidence has demonstrated that these people often have poorer health outcomes than those in the mainstream…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Evidence, Nurses, Accessibility (for Disabled)
Bane, Geraldine; Deely, Marie; Donohoe, Brian; Dooher, Martin; Flaherty, Josephine; Iriarte, Edurne Garcia; Hopkins, Rob; Mahon, Ann; Minogue, Ger; Mc Donagh, Padraig; O'Doherty, Siobhain; Curry, Martin; Shannon, Stephen; Tierney, Edel; Wolfe, Marie – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
This study explored the perspectives of people with learning disabilities on relationships and supports in the Republic of Ireland. A national research network consisting of 21 researchers with learning disabilities, 12 supporters, and 7 university researchers conducted the study. Researchers with learning disabilities and their supporters ran 16…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, National Surveys
Oguntoyinbo, Lekan – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
The author reports on few schools that offer extra services to those with learning disabilities. Although a growing number of children are being diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders that prevent them from succeeding in college, such as autism, ADD and ADHD, few colleges have created programs that provide them the help they need to make it…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Learning Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances, Emotional Problems
Stegers, Markus – Exceptional Parent, 2008
Transportation challenges can often be one of the biggest stumbling blocks to having a successful vocational experience. The author presents a personal account of the difficulties people with disabilities encounter in trying to get themselves to their workplaces due to the limitations of various mobility services.
Descriptors: Transportation, Disabilities, Personal Narratives, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Wiener, Judith – Education Canada, 2009
The mere presence of students with learning disabilities in general education classrooms is not inclusion. Inclusion involves meaningful participation by these students, achievement in accordance with their abilities, and social acceptance by teachers and peers. Teachers who view these students as a challenge rather than a burden, who believe that…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Inclusive Schools, Classroom Environment, Mainstreaming
Holthouse, David – Teaching Tolerance, 2009
This article discusses a documentary film created by students with learning disabilities to share their wisdom. "Speak Out for Understanding" is a new film on learning disabilities created by a group of students at a Vermont high school. Made on a shoestring, the award-winning 32-minute documentary overturns a number of popular…
Descriptors: Music, Learning Disabilities, Down Syndrome, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Gardner, Teresa J. – Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services, 2008
The role of technology in education is ever increasing. This article looks at students with disabilities and the problem of writing independently. Speech recognition technology offers an option, or solution, for students who have physical and/or learning disabilities and for students who cannot access and use computer keyboards or switches.…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Computer Software, Computers