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Cássia Geciauskas Sofiato; Orquídea Coelho; Paulo Vaz de Carvalho – Deafness & Education International, 2024
Deaf education officially began in Portugal in 1823, with Pedro Aron Borg, at the invitation of D. João VI and his daughter, D. Isabel. In Brazil, it began in 1857, when Édouard Adolfo Huet Merlo founded the first institution, with the consent of D. Pedro II. The Royal Institute for the Deaf-Mute and the Blind in Lisbon and the Imperial Institute…
Descriptors: Educational History, Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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Skyer, Michael E. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2023
Vygotsky's (1993) "Fundamentals of Defectology" is a radical's handbook of deaf and disability studies. Vygotsky's overall research program views disabilities, including deafness, from an integrated biosocial and critical theory standpoint. In two movements, I introduce an "American Annals of the Deaf Special Issue" on…
Descriptors: Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Sign Language, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
The process of reform of the education system of the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century was central for the establishment of new institutes for the less advantaged members of the society. Among these, special schools for D/deaf students stand out, not least because all the communities that were part of the Empire could be enrolled in…
Descriptors: Educational History, Deafness, Educational Change, Students with Disabilities
Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Dominguez, Lauren M.; Kincaid, Aleksis; Edwards, Lynn M. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2014
A report analyzing how accommodated tests, and students with disabilities and the assessments they take, are addressed in state test security policies -- a subject about which little is known. This analysis was conducted to partially fill this gap. The report provides a snapshot of how accommodated tests for students with disabilities, alternate…
Descriptors: Testing, Information Security, Testing Accommodations, Students with Disabilities