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Educating Students with Visual Impairments in the General Education Setting
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Johnson-Jones, Kerri Janae – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research study was aimed at describing the experiences of visually impaired students and their teachers about their experiences within the general education setting. The purpose of this study was to collect and report interview data, corroborated with observational data in order to provide rich, descriptive data based on the participants'…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Student Experience, Inclusion, Interviews
Perspectives of Family Members of People with an Intellectual Disability to a Major Reconfiguration of Living Arrangements for People with Intellectual Disability in Ireland
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O'Doherty, Siobhain; Linehan, Christine; Tatlow-Golden, Mimi; Craig, Sarah; Kerr, Mike; Lynch, Christy; Staines, Anthony – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Aim: To document the views of family members of people with an intellectual disability regarding implementation of a personalized model of social support in Ireland. Method: Forty family members participated in six focus groups. Data were thematically analysed. Results: Family members' preference for particular types of living arrangements were…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Focus Groups, Social Support Groups
Focus on the Journey, Not the Destination: Digital Games and Students with Disability
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Main, Susan; O'Rourke, John; Morris, Julia; Dunjey, Helen – Issues in Educational Research, 2016
The way in which technologies support students with disability has been widely explored in recent times. Much of this research has focused on computer programs specifically designed to teach social and academic skills to students with disability. In the research reported in this paper we examined how students with disability could use technology…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Technology, Disabilities, Technology Uses in Education
At Home with Disability: One Family's Three Generations Narrate Autism
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Mouzourou, Chryso; Santos, Rosa Milagros; Gaffney, Janet S. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
We examined the lived experiences of a Cypriot family with a young child with autism. Semi-structured interviews with parents, siblings, and extended family members across three generations and observations of the family's daily activities were the primary data-generating methods. Critical events related to the disability diagnosis, the mother's…
Descriptors: Siblings, Autism, Family Relationship, Interviews
Realizing a Social Practices Approach in Literacy Learning: Engaging with the Everyday Lives of Adults with Learning Difficulties
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Wilson, Alastair; Hunter, Katie – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
This paper presents findings from an action research project funded by the Scottish Government through Learning Connections (March 2006 to April 2007) to develop and explore the potential for enhancing literacies learning for adults with learning difficulties by engaging with their systems of care and/or support. The paper explores the ways in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Problems, Action Research, Tutors
Known Well by No-One: Trends in the Informal Social Networks of Middle-Aged and Older People with Intellectual Disability Five Years after Moving to the Community
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Bigby, Christine – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
Background: Informal relationships are central to conceptualisations of quality of life. Deinstitutionalisation studies consistently suggest a trend of increased contact with family and friends by people with intellectual disability (ID) following relocation from an institution to the community. In this study, changes in the nature of the informal…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Older Adults, Adults, Social Networks