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Mary Bottomley; Jodie Bradley; Lisa Clark; Bryan Collis; Bojana Daw Srdanovic; Victoria Farnsworth; Annie Ferguson; Dan Goodley; Andrew Fox; Nikita K. Hayden; Charlotte Lawthom; Rebecca Lawthom; Claudia Magwood; Robert McLean; Ian Middleton; Alison Owen; Matty Prothero; Simon Rice; Simon Richards; Katherine Runswick-Cole; Kelly Scargill; Rohit Shankar; Toni Ann Wood – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: We are a research team of clinical, academic and advocacy-based researchers with and without learning disabilities, working on the "Humanising Healthcare" (for people with learning disabilities) project. The project is dedicated to finding and sharing healthcare practices that enhance the lives of people with learning…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Disabilities, Guidelines, Researchers
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Hudson, Tina Marlene; McKenzie, Robert G. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2016
Response to Intervention (RTI) has become the gateway to identification for many students with specific learning disabilities. Those include students in the 17 states that require RTI as the source of eligibility data as well as many students in the 33 states that allow districts to choose RTI among other options (e.g., discrepancy). There is…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Identification, Elementary School Students, Learning Disabilities
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Caruana, Vicki – Preventing School Failure, 2015
Since the reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 2004, standards-based individualized education plans (IEPs) have been an expectation for serving students with disabilities in the K-12 public school setting. Nearly a decade after the mandates calling for standards-based IEPs, special educators still struggle…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, State Standards, Writing Strategies, Individualized Education Programs
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Smith, Jean Louise M.; Doabler, Christian T.; Kame'enui, Edward J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2016
As the call for evidence-based programs and practices heightens (e.g., the Every Student Succeeds Act), there is little doubt about the urgency to bring solid research into the classroom. Implementing findings generated from rigorous research continues to be a viable, trustworthy, and necessary factor in preventing and addressing learning…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Practices
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Savi, Christine Opitz; Savenye, Wilhelmina; Rowland, Cynthia – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2008
Web accessibility has become a paramount concern in providing equal access to audiences of all abilities. Unless web accessibility is supported and employed, the internet does not deliver worldwide access as it was intended. This study engaged 60 students in a secondary school setting in order to identify the navigational effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Web Sites, Adolescents, Learning Modules
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Rafael, Berta – Childhood Education, 1981
Descriptors: Art Activities, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Disturbances
Beech, Marty – Florida Department of Education, 2010
This document updates "Accommodations: Assisting Students with Disabilities. A Guide for Educators," published by the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) in 2003. This document is written to assist school district personnel and parents when making decisions about the use of accommodations by students with disabilities in instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Disabilities, Testing Accommodations, State Standards
Mid-State Literacy Council, State College, PA. – 1986
Project VITA (Volunteers in Tutoring Arrangements for County Educational Programs) was designed to develop a training and reporting system to coordinate services between 27 area educational and human service agencies serving special needs adult learners who require one-to-one tutoring. A training system was created with existing resources and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Disabilities
Kennedy, Stephen; Treanor, Declan; O'Grady, Mary – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2008
This guide was developed by DAWN (Disability Advisors Working Network) in consultation with AHEAD (Association for Higher Education Access and Disability), Asperger Syndrome Association of Ireland, Brainwave, DeafHear, Dyslexia Association of Ireland and the National Council for the Blind. This is an introductory guide and should be used as a…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Higher Education, Guidelines, Teaching Methods
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. National Air And Space Museum. – 1977
Presented are guidelines drawn from surveys of programs and services provided for handicapped persons in U.S. museums. An initial section which reviews literature on museum programs for handicapped visitors focuses on problems and misconceptions regarding blind, deaf, physically handicapped, learning disabled and emotionally disturbed, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Facilities, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Hill, Jennifer Leigh – 1991
This handbook provides information for University of Victoria faculty that will assist in the process of accommodating students with disabilities in the classroom or the laboratory. The focus of the handbook is on ways that instructors can modify the learning environment to facilitate learning for these groups, and it is divided into sections…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), College Faculty, Disabilities, Diseases
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Board of Governors. – 1992
Addressing the California legislative provisions dealing with community college districts' support services or instruction offered through Disabled Student Programs and Services (DSPS), this report presents the specific amendments, additions, and repeals to Sections 56000 through 56076 of Subchapter 1 of Chapter 7 of Division 6 of Title 5 of the…
Descriptors: Communication Disorders, Community Colleges, Definitions, Disabilities
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1983
Designed to assist service providers as they strive to provide a full service goal for all handicapped pupils, this manual consists of checklists for monitoring compliance with Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act). Checklists of components in general policy areas are: (1) policy requirements (LEAs - Local Educational…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Compliance (Legal), Confidentiality, Disabilities
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. Div. of Special Education Programs and Pupil Personnel Services Guidance Service. – 1985
This publication is intended for use as a supplement to "A Guide for Planning and Developing Guidance and Counseling Programs in Virginia's Public Schools." After a general discussion of basic concepts in counseling with handicapped students, the publication provides separate sections discussing basic educational goals and counseling…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Counseling Services, Counseling Techniques, Developmental Disabilities
Plakos, John; And Others – 1989
The report documents the first stage of an 18-month study to determine the effectiveness of existing California legislation for identification of 3- to 5-year old children with special needs. Local service sites (N=112) responded to a questionnaire which addressed implementation of eligibility criteria at local sites, improvement of the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Disabilities, Eligibility, Evaluation Methods
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