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Showing 1 to 20 of 3565 for “"disability"”.
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Disability Loophole a critical analysis of the definition of Disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995
… examine the issues concerning Section 1 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. When the Act was first passed in December 1995 it was considered to be a major break through in obtaining equality and protection for disabled people. This research demonstrated how Section 1 of the Disability …
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Disability as an entanglement: A new materialist reimagination of disability
… humanity, despite decades of hard work from the disability rights movement, support workers, and families and whānau, among many others (Goodley, 2017). In this thesis, I seek to find some answers as to why this situation persists. I seek further to investigate if this ongoing marginalisation can …
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Decloaking disability : images of disability and technology in science fiction media
This work examines how images of disability are used to frame cultural narratives regarding technology. As advances in biotechnology ensure that more people will be living with technological prosthetics against and beneath their skin, there is an increasing importance in examining how such bodies …
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Perceptions of Disability, Identity, Agency, Goal Attainment, and Young Adult Disability Programs
<p>Youth with disability are oppressed and marginalized by a dominant cultural narrative called ableism (Adams, Reiss, and Serlin, 2015; Campbell, 2015 as cited in Adams et al., 2015). Challenging ableism is a matter of social justice. Without serious attitudinal shifts and the removal of systemic …
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A learning disability center
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Narrating Political Disability Identity
<p>This dissertation documented the political disability identities of nine disabled adults. It also explored how these disabled adults enacted their political disability identities. I used narrative analysis to analyze the data, which included life history interviews and the authoring of memoirs. …
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Traversing disability in South Africa: considering social capital in disability inclusive employment practices
… gainful employment but historically, work and disability were mutually exclusive (Howard, 2005). Ville (2005) suggests that while there are studies around the unemployment of persons with disabilities, few examine the experiences of these persons as players in their own lives. The focus of this …
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The new disability rhetoric: Chaim Perelman and the argument for justice in disability studies
… rhetoric, and justice to the burgeoning field of disability studies. Perelman's most commonly-known text, The New Rhetoric, has drawn praise for the ambition demonstrated in its extensive analysis of the techniques of argument as well as criticism for being too narrow in scope - focusing only on …
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The Disability-Diversity Disconnect: Redefining the Role of Student Disability within the Postsecondary Environment
<p>The current understanding of student disability continues to be misperceived as a form of impairment, rather than as a part of student diversity within the higher education environment. Although nearly one in ten college students have a documented disability affecting cognitive, physical, or …
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The Rhetoric of Disability: an Analysis of the Language of University Disability Service Centers
… university websites and the policies provided by Disability Services provide material for a rhetorical analysis addressing the marginalization of students with disabilities on college campuses. In this thesis, I discuss the degree to which university distributed texts marginalize students with …
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Disability, Career Advancement, and Leadership
My dissertation includes three research papers on disability, career advancement, and leadership. With limited prior research on the lived experience of leaders with disabilities, I begin with a qualitative study on career advancement and leadership facilitators in Chapter 2. Twenty-one leaders …
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Inference Generation and Reading Disability
… Tunmer, 1986) as a framework to classify reading disability, poor comprehenders and poor decoders were compared with chronological age-matched typical readers. In Experiments 1, 2, 3 and 4 a self-paced reading paradigm was employed to assess on-line inference generation. Reading times to target …
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Gender, caring and learning disability
… learning difficulties; the history of learning disability; and qualitative research with marginalised groups.
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Gene identification in intellectual disability
Contains fulltext : 107980.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Latent factor modelling of disability
… methods to the study of the economics of disability and disability policy in later life, a topic which is currently very high on the policy agenda. It comprises four studies. The first chapter investigates the presence of health-related sample attrition (the drop-out of eligible sample …
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Essays on disability and employment
… workers. This essay uses variation in state disability laws and data from twenty years of the March Current Population Survey to determine the short and longer term impact of the ADA on labor market outcomes of people with disabilities. The estimates suggest that the ADA led to a short-term …
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Mathematical ability, inability and disability.
Thesis. 1977. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Dewey, Disability, and Democratic Education
… that coalesce around the topics of Dewey, Disability, and Democratic Education. Each manuscript is formatted for publication and the dissertation itself is prefaced by information that explains my background and how it connects to my current research. As such, the work contained in this …
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