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Perspectives of Black Parents of Young Adults with High Incidence Disabilities on the Postsecondary Planning Process
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Erin Peace Kilpatrick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Black parents of young adults with high incidence disabilities provide salient support to their children during and after postsecondary planning processes in high school. These parents serve a vital role concerning their child with high incidence disabilities' postsecondary planning processes. School counselors are well-positioned as social…
Descriptors: Blacks, Parents, Young Adults, Students with Disabilities
Education's Enduring Prejudices: Disability at the Door
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Valeo, A. – Learning Inquiry, 2009
Ontario's current education system is struggling with the task of fully including children with disabilities in the regular classrooms of their neighbourhood school. While many educators understand that it is wrong to deny admission to publicly funded schools because the child may be Black or female, they nonetheless feel that segregation of…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Public Education
Local Authorities and the Education of Young People with Sickle Cell Disorders in England
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Dyson, S. M.; Abuateya, H.; Atkin, K.; Culley, L. A.; Dyson, S. E.; Rowley, D. T. – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2008
The successful inclusion of minority ethnic pupils with sickle cell disorders (SCD) raises a number of challenges for educational systems. In England, local education authorities were important drivers for innovative responses to complex needs and the former Inner London Education Authority produced guidance in 1989 on SCD in schools. Local…
Descriptors: Disability Discrimination, Foreign Countries, Inclusive Schools, Equal Education
Civil Rights in Maine. Proceedings of a consultation sponsored by the Maine Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Augusta, Maine, November 16-17, 1978).
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Maine Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Augusta. – 1979
This publication records statements made by representatives of some 20 organizations at a Consultation on the Status of Civil Rights in Maine. Following the chairperson's introductory remarks, presentations on the following five sets of issues are offered: (1) general and multiple civil rights issues (the Maine Human Rights Commission, the Pine…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Age Discrimination, American Indians, Blacks
Building Bridges to Independence: Proceedings of the National Conference: Employment Successes, Problems, & Needs of Black Americans with Disabilities (Washington, D.C., 1988).
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Walker, Sylvia, Ed.; And Others – 1988
This conference was the first nationwide meeting focusing on issues concerning the employment of black Americans with disabilities. These issues are significant because one working-age black in seven has a disability. The conference goal was to explore ways to reduce or eliminate barriers to employment preparation services and to identify methods…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination
The Racial Context of the Holocaust.
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Milton, Sybil – Social Education, 1991
Documents the systematic extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Blacks, and the handicapped by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. Notes eugenic and racial measures such as forced sterilization of mulatto and handicapped children were used. Discusses Nazi policies of deportations and mass murder. Identifies need for research to explain the racial context of…
Descriptors: Blacks, Context Effect, Disability Discrimination, Discriminatory Legislation