studied the effects and issues raised by disabled parents. Aiming to help parents with disabilities, organizations and governments have delivered relevant...
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with a Free Appropriate...
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society. Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or a combination of multiple factors. Disabilities can be...
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Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA (42 U.S.C. § 12101) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords...
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Carrie Ann Lucas (category American lawyers with disabilities)
organization to fight discrimination against parents with disabilities. In addition to fighting for parents' rights in Colorado and nationally, she also...
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Learning Disability. This phenomenon is shared with mental health and motor disabilities, and seen to a lesser degree in sensory disabilities.[citation...
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"Definitions of Learning Disabilities from Adults with Learning Disabilities: The Insiders' Perspectives". Learning Disability Quarterly. 16 (2): 114–125...
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ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy full equality under the law. The Convention serves as a major catalyst in the global disability rights movement...
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Family support (category Disability)
initiatives of parents of children with disabilities. These initiatives occurred throughout the US concurrent with the formation of activist parent groups in...
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Special education (redirect from Learning disabilities in special education)
dystrophy), developmental disabilities (such as autism spectrum disorder, and intellectual disabilities) and other disabilities. Disabled students are likely...
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This disability rights timeline lists events relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities in the United States of America, including court...
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that disability rights advocacy began to have a cross-disability focus. People with different kinds of disabilities (physical and mental disabilities, along...
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the Education of All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA). Parents of children with disabilities and other advocates hailed EAHCA as the "education civil...
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worldwide proportion of people with developmental disabilities is believed to be approximately 1.4%. Such disabilities are twice as common in males as...
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Josh Green (politician) (category Articles with short description)
safeguard so that parents with disabilities would no longer have their children taken away from them because of their disabilities. He also led the charge...
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treat people with disabilities with deference, however when the disability constitutes a mental illness such an approach may be slanted with an acknowledgement...
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Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) is an independent national American association of parents of children with disabilities, attorneys...
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showed that ADHD parents are less lenient but more strict in their parenting styles. Parents of children with ADHD and other parents share a comparable...
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million women in the world have disabilities, they often do not receive the same quality of healthcare. Women with disabilities are entitled to equal access...
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Fredrick Brennan (category American activists with disabilities)
considered having a child with his wife but maintained that he still believed in genetic testing for prospective parents with disabilities. Brennan in the early...
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disabilities is a term for a person with a combination of disabilities, for instance, someone with both a sensory disability and a motor disability....
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severe mental disability was more pronounced among single mothers at 28.7% compared to partnered mothers at 15.7%. These mental disabilities include but...
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Arc of the United States (category Disability organizations based in the United States)
people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The organization was founded in the 1950s by parents of people with developmental disabilities. Since...
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individuals with "visual, hearing, speech or physical disabilities, mental retardation, mental disorder, multiple disabilities and/or other disabilities." The...
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Sheltered workshop (redirect from Australian Disability Enterprise)
common form of employment provision for people with disabilities across Europe where their disabilities create barriers to accessing the open labour market...
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Retard (pejorative) (category Pejorative terms for people with disabilities)
mental disability, when the term retard is being used in its pejorative form, it is usually not being directed at people with intellectual disabilities. Instead...
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of adult persons with intellectual disabilities on the island of Ireland". Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities. 3 (2): 87–94. doi:10...
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Corbett O'Toole (category American activists with disabilities)
Conference on Parents with Disabilities & Their Families. Disability World, Issue no. 16 November–December O'Toole, C.J. (2002). Sex, disability and motherhood:...
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Education for All Handicapped Children Act (category United States federal disability legislation)
with physical and mental disabilities. Public schools were required to evaluate children with disabilities and create an educational plan with parent...
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Rosemary Kennedy (category American people with disabilities)
visited the White House. Kennedy's parents told Woman's Day that she was "studying to be a kindergarten teacher," and Parents was told that while she had "an...
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