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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
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Matthews, Nicole – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
Drawing on the insights of critical disability studies, this article addresses anxieties frequently articulated by academic staff around the implementation of the United Kingdom's Disability Discrimination Act: how to accommodate the needs of students with "hidden" impairments. Following the social model of disability, it argues that…
Descriptors: Disability Discrimination, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Policy Analysis