Numerous measures are in place to help young disabled children thrive, but the transition beyond school can be a difficult one. Here are some tips for families to help their children prepare for life beyond.
Though challenges like dyslexia can make learning difficult, these disabilities shouldn’t define who you are – or what you can do.
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The story of a six-year-old boy with dyslexia who, with support from friends and teachers, became a successful professor. Now he teaches teachers how to help children like him.
Whether you have a physical disability, mental illness or learning challenge, there are strategies to help you earn your degree.
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For many disabled students, college is the first time that they're put to the test of making their own way. The experience can be challenging, but there are strategies to help ease the way.
Pauline Hanson has made claims about the negative impacts of having children with autism in mainstream classrooms.
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'Cage-like' facilities, segregation, and high numbers of exclusions show the concerning ways schools have responded to challenging behaviours by students with disabilities.
The majority of support funding is used to ‘buy’ teacher aide time.
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Students with disability are experiencing a range of harms in schools, and teachers are struggling to support students with increasingly complex needs.
Children with albinism often have poor eyesight, so classroom seating plans are important.
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Students with disabilities find that they must accommodate themselves to institutional contexts which they find profoundly disabling.
Selina, right, and her friend Mwanaidi play together in a Tanzanian classroom. Children with albinism are very vulnerable to attack, mutilation and murder.
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Children living with albinism are very vulnerable to attack, kidnapping, mutilation and murder. In Tanzania, fear is keeping many children away from school and costing them an education.
Kids with disabilities need toys that are useful and respectful.
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The history of disability toys – that is, both toys designed for use by disabled children, and toys that depict disability – reflects the changing treatment of the disabled.
Today, kids with special needs can have access to education.
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November 29 marks the 40th anniversary of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA). Prior to the law, some states excluded the "crippled" from public education.
Using sign language is just one way for deaf people to communicate. New technology is emerging that helps with learning.
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One South African student's experience with live captioning technology may be the start of an exciting change for deaf university students who do not use sign language.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) allowed access to special education for people with disabilities.
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On July 26, America celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This law and its predecessors changed the lives of those with disabilities. This is Jim's story.
Friendships could prevent later bullying.
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Career development is the nexus between employment and education. It can be used to bolster disabled youngsters' confidence and show them what jobs are available after school.
It’s not always better together.
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