Throughout history disabled children have not been given the same opportunities as most. ... Before the late 1900s disabled children were not even given the option to go to school. ... Some states are not able to provide specialized training to teachers, so they have the skills to aid students with disabilities. Other states are not offering assistive technology, even though they are required by IDEA to provide these services to students who need them. ... For example, Lee County (Florida) was forced to eliminate approximately 100 paraprofessionals and staff specialists who supported the lear...

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the arts, a wide range of disabled artists bring cultural and educational art to the community through such organizations as the Disabled Artists Guild located in Lake Ronkokoma, New York. ... I cannot speak very much to my own early past views as a younger man, say up to the age of 24, on people who are disabled or many other subcultures because my own thinking then on the subject was undefined and nebulous. ... In fact, when I was in second grade, my nice teacher introduced us to a new student who came in midway through the year. ... When we open ourselves to different historical perspect...

• Word Count: 905
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Issue 14: Is Full Inclusion of Disabled Students Desirable? ... In issue 14 they spent time addressing the idea of full inclusion of disable students. ... Dodge believe that full inclusion can benefit all students. ... They believed that full inclusion would provide disable students with the same opportunities that are available to students that do not possess disabilities. ... No matter what the situation if all play their part all can benefit from what ever is decided concerning the full inclusion of disabled students. ...

• Word Count: 751
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Is the goal of AA to erase past inequities for the disabled, minorities and/or women without protest? ... The effects of Affirmative Action on Women, African Americans and the Disabled The enduring effect s of historical oppression include the losses of adequate education and honorable employment that has haunted the African American, disabled and women in America. ... In addition, AA laws allowed for minority student's admission in schools that would not have been accessibl...

• Word Count: 1643
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Affirmative action programs throughout the United States have long been a controversial issue particularly concerning employment practices (public/private) and university student and/or staff recruitment. ... The National Assessment of Educational Progress, a series of national standardize tests, evaluates students on their proficiency in reading, writing and science. ... When students cannot read well, they usually cannot succeed in other subject areas. ... However, with affirmative action, it has been noted that their incentives to achieve success may be decreased because "preferential treat...

• Word Count: 2762
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Affirmative action programs throughout the United States have long been a controversial issue particularly concerning employment practices (public/private) and university student and/or staff recruitment. ... The National Assessment of Educational Progress, a series of national standardize tests, evaluates students on their proficiency in reading, writing and science. ... When students cannot read well, they usually cannot succeed in other subject areas. ... However, with affirmative action, it has been noted that their incentives to achieve success may be decreased because preferential treatm...

• Word Count: 2762
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Political correctness is a term used to describe the attempts to minimize offenses against racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, age and disabled groups. ... The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted "victims" groups that political correctness revolves around, quickly f...

• Word Count: 1998
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate