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Cumella, Stuart; Lyons, Maria – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
Background: A key aim of public policy has been to move people with a learning disability from segregated settings into ordinary housing, with the expectation that they would become integrated in and accepted by the rest of society. Despite this policy, people with a learning disability have high rates of unemployment, social isolation, mental…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Housing, Quality of Life, Public Policy
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Sakiz, Halis; Sart, Zeynep Hande; Börkan, Bengü; Korkmaz, Baris; Babür, Nalan – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2015
This study aimed to explore how children with learning disabilities (LD) perceive their quality of life (QoL) and to compare self-reports and proxy reports regarding their QoL. Children with LD, their typically developing peers, their parents and teachers responded to the child, parent, and teacher forms of KINDL® Questionnaire for Measuring…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Quality of Life, Self Concept, Comparative Analysis
Caplan, Stacie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Recent literature on the psychological adjustment of parents who have children with disabilities suggests that they encounter a range of challenges beyond those experienced by parents of typically developing children (Achiless, G.M., McLaughlin, M J , & Croninger, R.G. 2007; Brown & Pacini, 1989). This is particularly true when a special…
Descriptors: Mothers, Learning Disabilities, Quality of Life, Child Rearing