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Sevki Can Atik; Mükerrem Yilmaz – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2024
This study comprehensively analyzes the effectiveness of the services provided to disabled people in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) within the legislation framework and the communication barriers experienced by these individuals. The research examines how disability affects individuals' participation in social life and how TRNC…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disabilities, Communication Problems, Legislation
Rebecca A. Cruz; Catherine M. Kramarczuk Voulgarides; Allison R. Firestone; Logan McDermott; Zhihui Feng – Review of Educational Research, 2024
Research on disproportionate representation in special education has potential to influence policy in ways that rectify educational inequities. In this study, we investigated how disproportionality researchers have operationalized dis-ability, identified key themes and theories used in disproportionality research, and evaluated the coherence…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Disabilities, Special Education, Educational Policy
Lauren B. Zepp; Carlyn O. Mueller; Melinda M. Leko – Journal of Special Education Preparation, 2022
This article provides information and resources to help special education teacher educators improve preservice teachers' competence for working with disabled students and addressing ableism in their classrooms, by incorporating young adult (YA) literature into special education teacher preparation experiences. Embedding YA literature with…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Special Education, Adolescent Literature, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Carla García-Fernández – Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 2020
Deaf-Latinx K-12 students are the largest group of racially minoritized students in the US, lagging far behind the complimentary proportion of Deaf-whites in obtaining degrees. Educational institutions have sustained and reproduced privilege and inequality patterns. This article explores how using Deaf-Latinx Critical Theory (Deaf-LatCrit) in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intersectionality, Deaf Blind, Deafness
Liasidou, Anastasia – British Journal of Special Education, 2014
Social justice is an ambiguous and contested term that is evoked in order to address issues of enhancing participation and eliminating discrimination across various markers of difference linked to race, social class, and so on. Historically, disability has been excluded from these analyses because it has been cast in the sphere of abnormality and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Disabilities, Equal Education, Access to Education
Obstacles to Special Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Turkey: A Brief Report
Meral, Bekir Fatih – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2015
Turkey regulates the special education of students with disabilities and, particularly, those who have intellectual disabilities (ID) based on international and national legal texts. However, the gap between law and practice cannot be denied. The existence of obstacles to special education for students with disabilities or ID continues in Turkey.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Mental Retardation, Barriers
Valeo, A. – Learning Inquiry, 2009
Ontario's current education system is struggling with the task of fully including children with disabilities in the regular classrooms of their neighbourhood school. While many educators understand that it is wrong to deny admission to publicly funded schools because the child may be Black or female, they nonetheless feel that segregation of…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Public Education

John, Jeffrey Alan – Journalism Educator, 1991
Outlines some of the concepts, questions, and solutions for educators who prepare journalists in a legal and social environment that enables, rather than discourages, potential journalists with disabilities. (MG)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Discrimination, Equal Education

Dunlap, William P. – Reading Improvement, 1989
Provides a survey instrument designed to gather data that assists in identifying educational barriers to handicapped persons. Notes that the survey identifies perceptions of educational services provided to handicapped persons by various educational agencies. (RS)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Discrimination

Cook, Timothy; Laski, Frank – Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, 1980
Considers effects of section 504 (Title V) upon disabled applicants to, and students at, U.S. colleges and universities. Analyzes the Supreme Court's decision in "Southeastern Community College v. Davis," focusing on postsecondary education provisions of DHEW enforcement regulations. Discusses policy ramifications regarding the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, College Students, Court Litigation, Disabilities
Hawkins, Augustus F. – 1986
The conference report presents the text of an amendment to the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) to authorize the awarding of reasonable attorneys' fees as part of the costs to the parents or guardian of a handicapped child or youth who is the prevailing party in a settlement. The General Accounting Office is directed to conduct a study of…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Discrimination
Erevelles, Nirmala – 1997
Within the current historical crisis of transnational capitalism, disabled people are finding themselves increasingly at risk. It is essential to (re)theorize the category of disability, particularly in critical response to the emancipatory possibilities offered through "border pedagogies." The paper locates the conceptual category of disability…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Discrimination

Ewing, Norma J. – High School Journal, 1979
The author examines concerns about whether or not, and by what criteria, handicapped students should be included in or excluded from comprehensive competency testing programs, as well as the implications of minimum competency testing for the handicapped. Pertinent legislation from several states is discussed. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Discrimination

Trent, James W., Jr. – Remedial and Special Education, 1998
Examines exhibits and discourses about three prominent groups of disabilities at the 1904 World's Fair: individuals with blindness or deafness; individuals with mental retardation; and babies who were premature. The identification of disabled who could improve and the use of education and science to control disabled are discussed. (CR)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Discrimination, Exhibits
Office for Civil Rights (ED), Washington, DC. – 1998
This fact sheet describes provisions under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) that prohibit the discriminatory assignment of students with disabilities to segregated classes or facilities. In elementary and secondary schools, students with disabilities may be assigned to…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination, Educational Discrimination