Many visually impaired students in rural Indonesia struggle to learn English due to a lack of accessible resources and traditional, visually focused teaching methods. This study explores how community-driven audio narratives can create a more inclusive learning environment. Using Vygotsky's social learning theory and Freire's liberatory pedagogy…

The relationship between disability, education, and psychology plays a crucial role in the academic, social, and emotional development of individuals. Disabled individuals face various challenges in education, such as low self-confidence, social isolation, learning difficulties, and peer bullying. An inclusive and supportive education system can…

Ohio's top politicians want to spend an additional $432 million on private school tuition over the next two years, including a new voucher for unregulated religious schools. The House budget proposal, following the direction set by Gov. DeWine's budget, continues to draw from a voucher playbook that disrupts and diminishes Ohio's public schools,…

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant increase in school absenteeism. The absence rate for the 2023/24 academic year reached 7.2% across all schools, with one in five students missing 10% or more of possible sessions. In conjunction with the rise in school absences, there has been a marked increase in mental health problems…

Introduction: A significant share of young adults lack the skills needed for the 21st-century workforce, contributing to persistent shortages of workers in middle-skill jobs--positions requiring more than a high school diploma but less than a bachelor's degree (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022). In response, policymakers have increasingly…

Background: In New York City's diverse public school system, specialized programming creates varied educational landscapes. This impacts the types of populations that students with disabilities (SWDs) see each and every day. Some SWDs are in specialized schools that only teach SWDs, other SWDs are in specialized classrooms but in schools that…

This fact sheet reports on inclusive education and students with special needs in British Columbia, including changes to the composition of students with special needs in public schools, cuts to specialist teaching positions, and graduation rates for students with special needs.

Daily behavior report cards (DBRCs) have shown to be effective in addressing academic and behavioral challenges for a variety of students in past literature. The purpose of this literature review and analysis is to update and summarize findings on the use of DBRCs on academic and social behavior for students considered to have disruptive behaviors…

Students with disabilities, especially those with non-apparent conditions, are entering universities in growing numbers. Yet more and more students are going off to college unprepared to manage their disabilities, in part because their high schools are overburdened, understaffed, and uninformed to identify and support them. A recent survey of…

"For valid disability determination to occur, a diagnostic team needs to be able to determine that a student has received appropriate instruction in the general education classroom" (Johnson, Mellard, Fuchs, & McKnight, 2006, p. 4.2). The purpose of the study was to determine whether a middle school Response to Intervention (RTI)…

Purpose: Many children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have weaknesses in executive functioning (EF), specifically in tasks testing interference control and working memory. It is unknown how EF develops in children with DLD, if EF abilities are related to DLD severity and persistence, and if EF weaknesses expand to selective attention.…

Increasing participation and success in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields continues to be a national imperative, with particular attention paid to eliminating barriers for women and underrepresented students of color. Some attention has been paid to the underrepresentation of students with disabilities in STEM fields, while…

One of the most neglected forms of diversity, disability, often results in discrimination in a community. Nevertheless, more higher education institutions are working toward creating more inclusive settings, even though this work predominantly regards students with disabilities, not much of faculty members. The study examined the faculty members'…

Students across several disability categories share similar writing profiles. Moreover, general education teachers often support groups of writers with various challenges in one setting. Surface-level errors, such as spelling and grammar, are common in the writing of students with learning disabilities (LD), emotional and behavioral disorders…

This is a case study of a Greek-American young adult and a New York City non-profit Day Habilitation consumer who was diagnosed with various developmental disabilities. The methods used for therapeutic and educational interventions included Gustav Heckman's version of Socratic Method called Socratic Enquiry used in individual sessions (one-on-one)…