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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Invisible disabilities"”.
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Invisible Disabilities, Academic Capital and Competitiveness of Genetic Counseling Applicants
… not yet characterized potential barriers with invisible diversities, such as being a first-generation college student, or a part of the LBGTQ+ community. Therefore, this study aimed to address this gap among those with invisible diversities, as well as explore their academic capital (AC), a …
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Enhancing engagement of students with invisible disabilities: Rowan University faculty knowledge and awareness and student perspectives
… engagement, and involvement affect students with disabilities. According to Karabin (2009), students with hidden disabilities encounter many obstacles in higher education. These disabilities are hidden illnesses and diseases that are not visual or immediately apparent. While these disabilities are …
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Evaluation of a professional development curriculum in movement education and adapted physical activity for invisible disabilities : a critical cross-case analysis
… practitioners working with individuals with disabilities in physical environments. Consequently, physical activity is often overlooked by service providers in programming and intervention for exceptional young learners. A formative evaluation, multiple-case study design was employed in this …
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Case study of parents’ experiences as their children with hidden disabilities navigate the K-12 system to high school completion
… the K-12 school system as their children with invisible disabilities move toward graduation from secondary education are multifaceted. This qualitative study examined the experiences parents are having or not having at Kalamazoo Central High School (KCHS), a traditional high school within the …
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Sexual esteem, perceptions of pregnancy, and maternal confidence in women with and without physical disabilities
… United States. Individuals with both visible and invisible physical disabilities face negative attitudes and stereotypes. Women with physical disabilities may experience negative attitudes regarding their sexuality and reproduction as well as societal and environmental barriers during pregnancy …
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Mattering and marginality: students with disabilities at Rowan University
… was to determine if students with documented disabilities at Rowan University felt as if they mattered to the university. The subjects in this study consisted of 161 students with a documented disability during the Spring 2013 semester. Data were collected using a modified version of the …
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Drawing the Line: Visible and Invisible Disability, Identity, and Intersectionality in Award-Winning Graphic Novels for Teens
… both text and imagery to explore how visible and invisible disabilities are portrayed in award-winning graphic novels from the past five years (2020-2024). This includes an examination of characters with multiple identities, such as the coexistence of visible disabilities with non-apparent …
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Health promotion among young adult African American men with invisible disability
… a group of young adult African American men with invisible disabilities. This hermeneutic phenomenological study used a non-experimental, descriptive design. The purposive sample consisted of 11 young adult, English-speaking, non-institutionalized, African American men with invisible disability …
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Figuring Disability and Illness: D. H. Lawrence’s Masculine Somatology
… reveals the significance of visible and invisible disabilities in Lawrence’s Tantric body schema while the hostile narration of Clifford acts as a point of ‘aesthetic nervousness’ within the novel. Finally, the tensions inherent in attempting to examine psychological aspects of illness …
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Dis/Ableist Consumption: A Critical Thematic Analysis of Avowed and Ascribed Neuro-Identities in the Classroom
<p>In the United States, faculty and students are publicly claiming neurodivergent identities and support for the neurodiversity movement. This study uses Collier and Hecht’s cultural identity theories with Lang and Chen’s two-step process, critical thematic analysis (CTA), to examine avowals and …