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Direct linkKerry Brenner Ed.; Maria Lund Dahlberg Ed. – National Academies Press, 2024
People with disabilities are the largest minority group in the United States. While nothing about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, jobs, or workplaces would seem to inherently exclude people with disabilities, in practice, stigma and discrimination continue to limit opportunities for disabled people to fully…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, STEM Education, STEM Careers, Social Bias
Download full textFitzgerald, Maureen, Ed.; Armstrong, Jocelyn, Ed. – IEEIR Interchange, 1993
This newsletter issue is devoted to summaries of 12 papers on culture and disability issues in the Pacific. The summaries presented span Oceania and are based on papers representing Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Nstasinge: The Sickness of a Small Boy from the Finisterre Range in Papua New…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
National Association for Retarded Citizens, Arlington, TX. Research and Demonstration Inst. – 1980
Proceedings of a conference to help educators and other professionals create positive student attitudes among nonhandicapped students toward handicapped students are summarized. Preliminary sessions focused on definitions of mainstreaming, public attitudes, barriers to attitudinal change, and ways to begin and maximize effective interaction in the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Community Attitudes, Disabilities
Kraus, Krandall, Ed.; Biscoe, Eleanor, Ed. – 1981
Presentations and discussions held during the 3-day meeting center on the education of librarians to meet the needs of handicapped individuals. The keynote address reviews legislation and agencies dealing with disabled persons, as well as library education on services to the handicapped. Other presentations include a historical review of the…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Hearing Impairments, History
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Special Education Instructional Materials Center. – 1975
Provided are the proceedings of the Special Study Institute conference on Fostering Positive attitudes Toward the Handicapped in School Settings sponsored by the Division for Handicapped Children of the New York State Education Department. Presentations include the following topics: rationale for the conference (by Samuel Wallach); a review of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Bibliographies, Books
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
Kok, Marilyn, Ed.; And Others – 1979
These proceedings of a statewide Texas conference focus on the need for cooperation between the leadership in the fields of special and vocational education in order to meet the needs of handicapped students. Featured presentations (1) stress the necessity for this team approach at the top levels of the education-state agency bureaucracy as well…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Auto Mechanics, Behavior Problems
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
