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Macdonald, Stephen – Insights into Learning Disabilities, 2019
This article discusses six theoretical frameworks of disability which dominate studies of dyslexia: (1) the biomedical, (2) the biopsychosocial, (3) the social model, (4) the critical realist, (5) the post-structuralistic, and (6) the neurodivergent approach. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how models of disability alter our understandings…
Descriptors: Models, Dyslexia, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
Phonological awareness, or the ability to detect or manipulate the sounds in words independent of meaning, has been identified as a key early literacy skill and precursor to reading. For the purposes of this review, "phonological awareness training" refers to any practice targeting young children's phonological awareness abilities.…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Training, Evidence, Reading Research
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Shogren, Karrie A. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2011
Self-determination has received significant attention in the special education field, but scholars' knowledge of how culturally and linguistically diverse learners and their families perceive interventions to promote self-determination remains limited. Understanding how the construct is perceived in diverse cultures is critically important given…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Self Determination, Special Education, Intervention
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Grant, Gordon – British Journal of Special Education, 1999
Reviews, from a British perspective, the literature on lifelong inclusive education for individuals with learning disabilities. The role of the family, community, and society in an inclusive educational culture is discussed. The paper urges more longitudinal studies, structured evaluation of inclusive educational developments, basic research on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusive Schools, Learning Disabilities, Lifelong Learning
Council for Educational Technology, London (England). – 1981
Used as an additional aid by the teacher, microelectronics can assist mentally and physically handicapped children to meet educational objectives that have been specifically agreed upon for the individual child. Microelectronics can help deaf children develop speech production, communication skills, and grammar and sentence construction;…
Descriptors: Blindness, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Developed Nations
Korean Educational Development Inst., Seoul. – 1983
This collection of abstracts describes 273 research reports selected among the research materials and publications produced by the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) since its foundation in August 1972, through December 1981. Most of these reports are briefly summarized into the abstract form while some are presented in descriptive…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education