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Direct linkPaul Watts; Janet Hoskin; Radhika Upadhyay; Emma Tapley; Gosia Kwiatkowska – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
Introduction: This paper examines the experiences of people with learning disabilities in the United Kingdom as society transitions towards cashless transactions and services. It is a significant study because it highlights the need to understand their digital financial experiences. Methods: This study employed an inclusive, interpretivist…
Descriptors: Adults, Learning Disabilities, Attitudes, Disabilities
Mary Bottomley; Jodie Bradley; Lisa Clark; Bryan Collis; Bojana Daw Srdanovic; Victoria Farnsworth; Annie Ferguson; Dan Goodley; Andrew Fox; Nikita K. Hayden; Charlotte Lawthom; Rebecca Lawthom; Claudia Magwood; Robert McLean; Ian Middleton; Alison Owen; Matty Prothero; Simon Rice; Simon Richards; Katherine Runswick-Cole; Kelly Scargill; Rohit Shankar; Toni Ann Wood – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: We are a research team of clinical, academic and advocacy-based researchers with and without learning disabilities, working on the "Humanising Healthcare" (for people with learning disabilities) project. The project is dedicated to finding and sharing healthcare practices that enhance the lives of people with learning…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Disabilities, Guidelines, Researchers
Nicola Grove; Simon Richards; Simon Rice; Claudia Magwood; Bryan Collis; Steffen Martick; Saskia Schuppener; Gertraud Kremsner; Elizabeth Tilley; Jan Walmsley – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: Inclusive research has sidelined discussion of theoretical issues with researchers with intellectual/learning disabilities. This is a situation which the Big Ideas initiative sought to change. Between 2021 and 2023, the Open University, Leipzig University and the University of Koblenz organised nine workshops to explore influential…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Workshops, Inclusion, Learning Disabilities
Morris, Janalee; Buchanan, Tom; Arnold, Janet; Czerkawski, Tracie; Congram, Brad – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2023
Academic accommodations for students experiencing disabilities are increasingly available at postsecondary institutions. More studies of the efficacy of accommodations for student success are warranted, however. Given the increased gender gap in university participation, more focus on the unique impact of gender is also needed. Using a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Schwab, Susanne – Educational Studies, 2019
Previous research has shown that students with special educational needs (SEN) have fewer friendships than their peers without SEN. In this longitudinal study, 545 students from primary and secondary schools, including 106 students with SEN, were surveyed at the beginning and the end of the school year. The results show that students with SEN…
Descriptors: Friendship, Peer Relationship, Disabilities, Special Needs Students
Schmidt, Yvonne – Research in Drama Education, 2017
Drawing from my first-hand observations and embodied experiences of having collaborated with HORA over the course of several years, this paper discusses an under-investigated area within the field of disability and performance: pioneering work by directors and with learning or cognitive disabilities, an area which has not yet been addressed in the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Performance, Learning Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
Waight, Mary; Oldreive, Warren – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
This study aims to outline a time-related study to identify UK websites providing information for people with learning disabilities and to evaluate the websites to determine strengths and weaknesses. Following a brief review of literature, a series of criteria were drawn up to evaluate websites for people with learning disabilities. Eighty-three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Sites, Learning Disabilities, Access to Information
Download full textChoi, Nari; Shin, Mikyung; Cho, EunMi – International Journal of Special Education, 2017
The definitions and educational policies related to learning disabilities have been updated throughout the last two decades since the passing of the Special Education Promotion Act (1994) in the Republic of Korea (South Korea). In particular, the definition of learning disabilities was entirely revised in the Special Education Act for Individuals…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Disability Identification, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Al-Attiyah, Asma; Mahasneh, Randa – International Journal of Special Education, 2018
This study aimed at assessing the quality of life of Qatar University students with disability and its relation to their academic adjustment and performance. Seventy (70) students, 31 males, and 39 females participated in the study during the spring of 2017. Participants with sensory (visual or hearing impairments) numbered 25, with physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality of Life, College Students, Disabilities
Fichten, Catherine Susan; Heiman, Tali; Havel, Alice; Jorgensen, Mary; Budd, Jillian; King, Laura – Exceptionality Education International, 2016
We have examined the sustainability of providing services for students with disabilities in higher education in Canada and Israel. The two countries differ in their approaches: Israel subscribes to the accommodations model of service delivery; Canada, to the universal design approach. Case examples of services to students with disabilities in…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Access to Education, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2017
This fact sheet reports on inclusive education and students with special needs in British Columbia, including changes to the composition of students with special needs in public schools, cuts to specialist teaching positions, and graduation rates for students with special needs.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Disabilities, Public Schools
Tavarez DaCosta, Pedro – Online Submission, 2019
The present work attracted our attention motivated by the need of seeking ways of helping people learning EFL, with certain "disabilities" than undertaking a research project by itself. The needs for implementing those special program in our country is out of the question, since to the extent that our society and country has been…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Special Needs Students
Markova, Maria; Pit-Ten Cate, Ineke; Krolak-Schwerdt, Sabine; Glock, Sabine – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
Drawing on social cognition frameworks, we experimentally examined preservice teachers' implicit attitudes toward students with special educational needs (SEN) from different ethnic backgrounds and preservice teachers' explicit attitudes toward inclusive education. Preservice teachers (N = 46) completed an evaluative priming task and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Altamimi, Ahmed A.; Lee, Lay Wah; Sayed-Ahmed, Al-sayed A.; Kassem, Mostafa M. – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
Special education in Saudi Arabia was formally established in 1962. The earliest cited literature on special education written in English was a 1970 government report. This article presents results from the first synthesis of internationally published Saudi special education literature over a 44-year period. This synthesis yielded information…
Descriptors: Special Education, Foreign Countries, Written Language, English
Georgiou, Catherine Elizabeth; Espahbodi, Shima; De Souza, Lorraine Hilary – Journal of Education and Work, 2012
For people with disabilities, one of the best ways to achieve independence is through work. Experience gained by undertaking a work placement whilst a student provides valuable knowledge and understanding of the demands of work, and enhances employability on graduation for both students with disabilities and for their non-disabled peers. The aims…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Delphi Technique, Student Attitudes, Higher Education
