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Li-Chih Wang; Kevin Kien-Hoa Chung; Rong-An Jhuo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Processing efficiency theory can explain the relationship between anxiety and academic success; however, its application to adults with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) remains unclear, especially in a nonalphabetic language, such as Chinese. This study investigated the effects of working memory and processing speed on the relationships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Short Term Memory
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Alicia Vinatea-Elorrieta; Ignacio Haya-Salmón; Susana Rojas-Pernia – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2025
Compulsory education is a reality for students in Spain, but the percentage of students referred to special education has increased in recent years, especially in secondary education. As part of an inclusive research, the aim of this article is to present the main barriers to learning and participation in secondary education reported by 30 young…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Special Education, Access to Education
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Marlena Huber; Florian Pochstein – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2025
Background: Despite progress in implementing the rights outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, individuals with intellectual disability encounter challenges in participating in daily life autonomously. Exclusion and stereotypes persist, impacting education, employment, and social participation. Inclusive sports…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Athletics, Inclusion
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Monika Verma; M. Karuppasamy – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2024
This study looks at the career choices of early adult girls with intellectual disability. Trade of vocation refers to the types of vocational environment and location i.e., open employment, sheltered employment and home-based employment. The present study aims to investigate the preferred trade of vocation for early adulthood girls with…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Young Adults, Females, Intellectual Disability
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Willetta Waisath; Michael McCormack; Pam Stek; Jody Heymann – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Disability-inclusive laws and policies - while not sufficient on their own to advance substantive equality - are an essential step that all countries can take to advance non-discrimination and equity in education for children and youth with disabilities. This is the first study to comprehensively review national law and policy guarantees in 193…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Inclusion, Access to Education, National Standards
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Devadrita Talapatra; Laurel A. Snider; Kayla McCreadie; Eileen Cullen – School Psychology International, 2024
People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have experienced involuntary and inhumane research practices. Consequently, researchers have shifted towards "excluding" those with IDs; caregivers, teachers, or peers compose study samples, dominating a space they "indirectly" experience. Researcher bias regarding intellectual…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, School Psychology, Students with Disabilities, Student Empowerment
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Annie Luk; Judy Perry; Phylicia Davis-Wesseling – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2024
The three of us met in 2014 through our shared interest in adult literacy. We are colleagues as practitioners and as researchers; altogether, we have been in the field of adult literacy in Canada since the 1980s. Our experiences working with learners come from our role as volunteer tutors and paid staff in provincially funded programs and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Special Education Teachers, Tutors
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Pei-Ying Lin – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2025
Objectives: To investigate the effectiveness of accommodation policies and teaching practices for secondary students with mild intellectual disabilities, the present study compared the probability that the secondary school accommodated students- if they received assistive technology, computer, and various combinations of accommodations for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Students with Disabilities, Mild Intellectual Disability
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Emily C. Bouck; Laura Norwine; Holly M. Long; Larissa Jakubow; James Nuse – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Life skills represent important skills needed for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Technology, including immersive and non-immersive virtual reality, presents options to support the acquisition and maintenance of life skills for students with IDD. In this study, researchers examined a non-immersive virtual…
Descriptors: High School Students, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
Laura Presley – Statistics Canada, 2025
In 2022, the disability rate for persons aged 15 years and over in Canada was 27%, representing nearly 8 million people. Disability rates are shown to increase with age: 20.1% among youth aged 15 to 24 and 40.4% among seniors aged 65 and older. Additionally, while disability rates increased across all age groups (with the exception of seniors aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
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Michal Gacek; Lukasz Krzywoszanski – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
In this study we examined how specific personality traits are related to psychosocial adjustment in people with intellectual disability. We studied 73 students with mild intellectual disability and 25 students with moderate intellectual disability who attended special schools in Poland. Personality traits were assessed with the Revised Edward…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Mild Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Moderate Intellectual Disability
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Zalmstra, Trees A. L.; Reinders-Messelink, Heleen A.; Elema, Agnes; Van Gils, Willemijn; Van Der Sluis, Corry K.; Van Der Putten, Annette A. J. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: A measure to provide insight regarding health-related quality of life of adults with severe motor and intellectual disabilities was lacking. For this reason, the CPADULT was developed. This measure includes domains relating to an individual's physical, mental, and social functioning. The purpose of this study was to assess the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Quality of Life, Adults
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Rebecca B. Smith Hill; Anthony J. Plotner; Hannah J. Peak – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2024
Transition-age adults with disabilities largely desire the same community employment and community participation outcomes as young adults without disabilities. One common barrier to the manifestation of these desires is the lack of reliable and accessible transportation in their communities. This study used the participatory action research method…
Descriptors: Transportation, Costs, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
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Gwendolyn C. Carey; Kelly B. Kearney; Angelica R. Downey; Brianna J. Miller – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2024
Transportation is a necessity in adult life. Qualitative literature regarding the usability of transportation to travel freely within the community (e.g., school, work, leisure activities) is widely circulated; however, information regarding transportation needs and barriers specifically faced by individuals with an intellectual and developmental…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Transportation, Accessibility (for Disabled)
Mirtha A. Peralta – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate junior college faculty's attitudes toward student with disabilities and their attitudes regarding accommodations for students with disabilities in Belize. Faculty members from the ten junior colleges of the Association of Tertiary Level Institutions of Belize (ATLIB) were recruited to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Two Year Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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