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Dengiz, Güney; Kiran, Binnaz – Online Submission, 2020
Using a conjoint analysis design, this study aims to examine the importance of disability type, disability level, age, gender, and ethnic origin of individuals with disabilities in the attitude/preference formation of school counselors working with students with disabilities. Two hundred and ninety-one school counselors working in Mersin and…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, School Counselors, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
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Keesler, John M. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
Social workers are instrumental in the lives of many people with disabilities, yet despite a strong foundation for this relationship, there is a dearth of research exploring the experiences and attitudes of social work students toward people with disabilities. To bridge this gap, the current study surveyed graduate social work students to…
Descriptors: Social Work, Higher Education, Graduate Students, Student Experience
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Darawsheh, Wesam. B. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Aim: There are limited studies conducted to explore the social attitudes towards PWDs in Jordan. The aim of this study was to compare public attitudes towards physical, visual, auditory, and intellectual disabilities in the five components of community-based rehabilitation (CBR) which are, education, health, livelihood, social, and empowerment.…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Physical Disabilities
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Cech, Erin A. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Background: The experiences of students and professionals with disabilities are routinely excluded from scholarly and policy debates about equity in engineering. Emergent research suggests that engineering is particularly ableist, yet systematic accounts of the possible exclusion and devaluation faced by engineers with disabilities are largely…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Students, Engineering, Professional Personnel
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Heräjärvi, Nina U.; O. Leskinen, Markku; A. Pirttimaa, Raija; J. Jokinen, Kimmo; A. Arvio, Maria – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2020
Prior studies have shown that young adults with severe physical and multiple disabilities are less likely to complete upper secondary education. This study aimed to identify whether these students' type of multiple disability, gender, location and literacy skills were associated with completion of upper secondary education. The participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Severe Disabilities, Physical Disabilities
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O'Neill, Jenny; Elia, Sonja; Perrett, Kirsten P. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2019
Background: The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is offered in Australia to all males and females at 12 to 13 years. In 2015 the national HPV coverage was 77.4% for females and 66.4% for males. There is no Australian coverage data for the subgroup of adolescents with disabilities. Method: We reviewed the HPV vaccine status of all 14 year-old…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Immunization Programs, Adolescents, Developmental Disabilities
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C. Ocete; A. Roldan; R. Reina; G. Ortega; J. Pérez-Tejero – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2025
This study aims to analyse the impact of a four-day inclusive basketball campus on the self-efficacy (SE) of players with or without a disability (pre- vs. post-intervention design). A sample of 44 participants, 23 without a disability and 21 with a physical disability, all wheelchair users, participated in this study. The entire sample formed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Sports, Self Efficacy, Children
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Edwards, Brydne M.; Cameron, Debra; King, Gillian; McPherson, Amy C. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2019
Despite the importance of students without special needs' perspectives in promoting successful social inclusion strategies in the classroom, their perspectives are not well represented in the literature. The purpose of this scoping review was to summarise the perspectives of students without special needs around the social inclusion of students…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Student Attitudes, Inclusion
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Apelmo, Elisabet – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
The aim of this article was to explore, from a gender perspective, how young sporting women with physical impairments experience physical education (PE), and which strategies they use to manage situations that arise in the everyday interaction in connection with those lessons. Phenomenology provides a theoretical framework that includes the body.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Gender Differences, Females, Athletes
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Demetriou, Kyriakos – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This small-scale study aims to explore acceptance and preference dilemmas in choosing playmates with physical disability of typically developing 6-8-year-old Cypriot children. Eighteen participants were interviewed individually in a simple process involving scenarios and questions with the use of images of hypothetical peers with and without…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Play, Peer Acceptance
Kiena S. Hughley – ProQuest LLC, 2020
African American male students are disproportionately represented in special education. The purpose of the current study is to examine the disproportionality of African American male students who are referred to special education programs and are identified special education services, specifically in the areas of Emotional Disturbance (ED),…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, African American Students, Males, Special Education
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2020
These are the appendixes for the report, "College Enrollment and Completion among Texas High School Graduates with a Disability." The study used student-level administrative data from Texas, available through the data repository at the Texas Education Research Center at the University of Texas. The data repository contains administrative…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, College Students, Students with Disabilities, Enrollment
Leslie, Mykal J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate the patterns in allegations of workplace discrimination by individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs). The goal of the research was to describe the discrimination, both actual and perceived, that has occurred against individuals with SUDs through analysis of the United States Equal Employment…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Disability Discrimination
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Rydzewska, Ewelina; Hughes-McCormack, Laura A.; Gillberg, Christopher; Henderson, Angela; MacIntyre, Cecilia; Rintoul, Julie; Cooper, Sally-Ann – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
This study investigated the comorbid conditions in a whole country population of children/young people aged 0-24 years with and without autism. Data were drawn from Scotland's Census 2011. We calculated the percentage with autism, their extent of comorbid conditions, odds ratio (with 95% confidence intervals) of autism predicting comorbidities,…
Descriptors: Incidence, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Physical Disabilities
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Reina, R.; Healy, S.; Roldán, A.; Hemmelmayr, I.; Klavina, A. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019
Physical Education teachers (PET) self-efficacy (SE) is a cornerstone for a successful inclusion of students with special educational needs. This study aims to evaluate the effect of a training program called "Incluye-T" on the SE of Spanish in-service PETs (n = 229) toward the inclusion of students with special education needs in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inclusion, Self Efficacy, Physical Education Teachers
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