This book offers theoretical and practical discussion on the inclusion of students with disabilities and learning impairments within the learning environments and beyond.
This volume presents the latest research from internationally recognized researchers and practitioners on language, literacy and numeracy, cognition, and social and emotional development of deaf learners.
This book seeks to expand some of the existing, often western and Global North facing, scholarship in the area of Disability and Media Studies to include African perspectives.
Beckett's plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances - that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as 'disabled' in the text.
Visual dysfunctions can limit children's concentration, self esteem and school success as they struggle to understand fundamentals such as colors, letters and how to judge distance.
The Blind Advantage provides insight into the challenges, possibilities, and practicalities of including students with disabilitiesand into the mind and heart of an inspired and determined leader.
Seeing Through New Eyes offers an accessible introduction to the treatment of visual dysfunction, a significant but neglected problem associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other developmental disabilities.
This book describes the disability rights movement that started in the USA and its influence on the disability rights movement in Lebanon, which has led to the endorsement of the Lebanese Disability Act 220/2000.
This book analyzes the process of leaving school, commonly referred to as 'transition' for young adults with severe, complex, and multiple disabilities.
An invaluable starting point for anyone encountering cerebral palsy for the first time, this book provides essential background information on causes, types and symptoms, as well as vital advice about the treatments, therapies and sources of support available.
Aphasie bedeutet nicht nur eine plötzlich auftretende Störung der Sprache, sondern auch eine Beeinträchtigung der Kommunikation mit psychosozialen Folgen für die Betroffenen und ihre Familien.
Language development, and the challenges it can present for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, have long been a focus of research, theory, and practice in D/deaf studies and deaf education.
This book takes up the task of mapping discursive shifts in the representation of disability in dystopian youth texts across four historical periods where major social, cultural and political shifts were occurring in the lives of many disabled people.
In this ground-breaking collection, leading experts in the field address the problems of parents, intervenors, and professionals who work with people who have been deafblind since birth or from a very early age.
Exceptional People: Lessons Learned from Special Education Survivors is a unique work that describes disabled (exceptional) students' and their parents' perspectives as they journeyed through the education system.
This book offers opportunities for better understanding teachers' unique challenges when planning teaching sessions for learners with special needs, based on the transdisciplinary approach.
Das Buch beleuchtet das in Deutschland noch relativ junge Feld zivilgesellschaftlichen Bildungsengagements aus ungleichheitssoziologischer Perspektive anhand eines konkreten Falls: Ein studentischer Verein, der ‚motivierten‘ und gleichzeitig ‚sozial benachteiligten‘ Schüler*innen der Sekundarstufe I kostenfreie Nachhilfe in den Kernfächern an Schulen in einem großstädtischen Raum ermöglicht.
Im Bereich wohnbezogener Hilfen für Menschen mit sogenannter geistiger Behinderung treten systemisch und systematisch ,Exklusionssphären‘ in Form von hochspezialisierten Angeboten sowie ,Resteinrichtungen‘ auf.
Special education students often learn about the characteristics of disabilities, but can lack an understanding of the relationship between diagnostic assessment and eligibility for special education services.
This is a unified collection of the best and most current empirical studies of socio-linguistic issues in the deaf community, including topics such as studies of sign language variation, language contact and change, and sign language policy.
Sonder- und Inklusionspädagogiken legitimieren sich unter Verweis auf kontingente, ambivalente und mitunter widerstreitende Vorstellungen von (Nicht-)Behinderungen.
