Annals of Dyslexia, Vol. 54, No. 2 (December, 2004), pp. 304-331 (28 pages) Recent consensus reports concur in suggesting major changes in the federal regulatory approach to the identification of ...

More than 100 people with learning disabilities and autism were "locked away" in hospitals across Greater Manchester as of ...

The psychiatry profession’s newly revised reference manual on mental disorders changes the definition and classification for many disabilities commonly seen in schools, but those changes—at times ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a piece of civil rights legislation designed to protect the rights of people with disabilities. It was passed into law in 1991 and guarantees equal rights ...

Megan Pritchard, a third-year nursing student at Aston University, has written a paper outlining the health inequalities ...

This study was designed to test whether the criterion based on the IQ-achievement discrepancy is useful in the definition of arithmetic learning disabilities (ALD). A sample of children with ALD, ...

Peer victimization -- bullying -- declined 20 percent among students with disabilities who participated in Second Step social-emotional learning curricula, authors of a new study report. More than 120 ...

Researchers have found a link to growth in working memory and growth in English-language reading among young English-language learning students. The findings suggest better assessment and education ...