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Direct linkDomka, Margaret; Arthur-Banning, Skye G.; Oh, Young Suk; Windbiel, Kirsten – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2023
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Clemson University Paralympic Soccer program transitioned its in-person soccer camps for veterans with a disability to a virtual format. Providing veterans with experience playing the game rather than just learning about the game in a classroom environment is an effective way to increase buy-in, activity,…
Descriptors: Athletics, Team Sports, Physical Disabilities, Camps
Del Cura, Mercedes; Martínez-Pérez, José – History of Education Review, 2021
Purpose: This paper analyses the strategies designed by Franco's dictatorship to address the "problem" of children with physical disabilities, focusing on the relevance given to vocational training. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws mainly on official documents, reports from international organisations, and Spanish experts'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Authoritarianism, Students with Disabilities, Rehabilitation
Download full textRose McAndrew; Amanda L. Wilson – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2022
Many occupational therapy programs use hybrid instruction methods that include virtual learning. To ensure active learning techniques, instructors must alter and adapt traditional instruction methods to the virtual environment. This article explores the use of a virtual Makerspace to create adaptive equipment used throughout online intervention…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Assistive Technology, Online Courses, Intervention
Muehlemann, Nina – Research in Drama Education, 2018
Commissioned for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Kaite O'Reilly's play "In Water I'm Weightless" uses access aesthetics as well as content to interrogate the relationship between wholeness and disability. Featuring an entirely d/Deaf and disabled cast, the play provides a multitude of ways through which the performance can be…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Drama, Disabilities, Deafness
Ames, Margaret – Research in Drama Education, 2018
The article examines the ways in which failure operated in the devising process with a colleague with learning disabilities. Themes of collaboration, co-creativity and power relations are set within the account of a process between the author and a research participant with learning and physical disabilities. The postdramatic device of failure…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Theater Arts, Trauma, Physical Disabilities
Chivandikwa, Nehemiah – Research in Drama Education, 2020
"Dawn" is an autobiographical university theatre production based on the narrative of Samanyanga, a University of Zimbabwe undergraduate. The article draws from interview materials, personal communication and observations to theorise the experience of participating in the project. The concepts of "Aesthetics of Existence" and…
Descriptors: Human Body, Theater Arts, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Den Elzen, Katrin – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2019
This paper examines how people find happiness and create wellbeing when confronted by extreme adversity. Utilising the Dialogical Self Theory for an analysis of published autobiographies, it investigates two case studies, Nick Vujicic, who was born without limbs, and Austrian author Barbara Pachl-Eberhart, who narrates creating a fulfilled life…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Well Being, Psychological Patterns, Trauma
Chmielewski, Kristen – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
Ideas and norms about disability shaped the experiences and careers of every teacher and prospective teacher in the Los Angeles public schools between 1930 and 1970. Medical doctors created and conducted the extensive medical examinations that teaching candidates and practicing teachers needed to pass to enter or remain in the classroom. The Los…
Descriptors: Teachers, Public Schools, Educational History, Teacher Characteristics
Marquis, Elizabeth – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
This article explores the representation of disability and academic identity in two award-winning films: "Still Alice" and "The Theory of Everything." Drawing on scholarship about embodiment and the 'normal professor body', I demonstrate how the complex images of disabled academics in these films take up and replicate (to…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Films, Self Concept, Disabilities
Etter, Nicole Michele; Madhaven, Aarthi – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Self-selection and self-avoidance of certain foods is one possible indicator of preclinical (prior to any clinical intervention) dysphagia in healthy older adults. Self-selection of food choices is influenced by changes in a combination of factors, including neuromuscular, sensory, and individual patient characteristics. Changes to these…
Descriptors: Food, Sensory Integration, Older Adults, At Risk Persons
Phillips, Ashley N.; Maricle, Denise E. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2021
Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that attacks the central nervous system through the destruction of myelin. Frequently cited symptoms include cognitive impairment as a hallmark repercussion, neuropsychological executive dysfunction, and psychosocial disturbances, such as affective disorders and fatigue. Other symptomatology…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Physical Disabilities, Cognitive Ability, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Raspa, Melissa; Bann, Carla M.; Gwaltney, Angela; Benke, Timothy A.; Fu, Cary; Glaze, Daniel G.; Haas, Richard; Heydemann, Peter; Jones, Mary; Kaufmann, Walter E.; Lieberman, David; Marsh, Eric; Peters, Sarika; Ryther, Robin; Standridge, Shannon; Skinner, Steven A.; Percy, Alan K.; Neul, Jeffrey L. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that primarily affects females. Recent work indicates the potential for disease modifying therapies. However, there remains a need to develop outcome measures for use in clinical trials. Using data from a natural history study (n = 1,075), we examined the factor structure, internal consistency,…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Psychometrics, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Disabilities
Hemsley, Bronwyn; Balandin, Susan; Sheppard, Justine Joan; Georgiou, Andrew; Hill, Sophie – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2015
Dysphagia in people with lifelong disabilities places a substantial burden on people with lifelong developmental disabilities, their carers, health and disability service, and society as a whole. Dysphagia in this population can be associated with respiratory illness, impaired nutrition, increased support needs, emergency hospital admissions with…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Eating Disorders, Safety
Plowman, Emily K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: The role of exercise in the management of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (PALS) is controversial and currently unclear. The purpose of this review article is to review literature examining the impact of limb, respiratory, and oral motor exercise on function, disease progression, and survival in PALS and the transgenic ALS…
Descriptors: Exercise, Neurological Impairments, Literature Reviews, Psychomotor Skills
Scott, Sheila – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2016
With emphasis on inclusive education, many music teachers interact with children on the autism spectrum within regular classroom settings. Many of these teachers rely on rote learning to teach a variety of musical skills. This creates difficulties for children on the autism spectrum who respond differently to imitation than their typically…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Imitation, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
