Top Research Papers on Learning Disabilities

Students with Specific Learning Disabilities, tend to have low academic performance because of the cognitive disorders and deficits of their working memory, as well as executing fuctions like these of processing - organizing and recalling information. Development of the Metacognitive skills, like those that presented by Drigas & Mitsea (2020), as 8 pillars of Metacognition, such as self-Awareness, self-Monitoring and Self-Regulation, helping these students recognize their weaknesses and introduce strategies and tactics will assist them to compensate their cognitive deficits, by becoming mo...

It was revealed that VR brain-rewiring techniques constitute effective metac cognitive strategies for people with various disorders and the need to create virtual metacognitive training environments to accelerate inclusion, equity, and peak performance is highlighted.

It is argued that current empirical evidence supports a dyslexia classification marked by specific deficits in reading and spelling words combined with inadequate response to evidence-based instruction, and the proposed “hybrid” Dyslexia identification process demonstrates strong evidence for valid decision-making and directly informs intervention.

This paper identified that advantage of technology through avatars, virtual reality and mobile devices, are extremely beneficial in anxiety, stress disorders, depression, and people with brain injury or other disabilities.

The impact of disablism on pandemic triage guidance for allocation of critical care is examined, identifying three underlying disablist assumptions that unjustly and potentially catastrophically disadvantage people with disability in COVID-19 and other global health emergencies.

Why is this topic important?: To understand what can improve the lives of autistic adults, researchers need to collect survey data directly from autistic adults. However, most survey instruments were made for the general population and may or may not work well for autistic adults. What is the purpose of this article?: To use lessons learned from our experience adapting surveys-in partnership with autistic adults-to create a set of recommendations for how researchers may adapt instruments to be accessible to autistic adults. What did the authors do?: Between 2006 and 2019, the Academic Autism S...

The proposed model shows that people suffering from long-term COVID problems continue to suffer from physical fatigue and shortness of breath and are regularly monitored and classified as per the proposed instructions.

This cross-sectional study uses data from the 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine the most recent estimates of disability prevalence among adults in the US.

Access to employment opportunities is a top priority for persons with disabilities.Article 27 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on the right to work, is one of its most detailed articles, given the impact of employment on the social inclusion processes.Yet, despite efforts and focus from governments, employers and organisations of persons with disabilities, available data tells us that persons with disabilities continue to be excluded from the labour market disproportionately.Available figures show that employment gaps between persons with and without disabili...

Physicians who felt that lack of formal education or training was a moderate or large barrier to caring for patients with disability were more likely to report little or no knowledge of their responsibilities under the law and to believe that they were at risk for an ADA lawsuit.

People with learning disability have markedly increased risks of hospital admission and death from covid-19, over and above the risks observed for non-covid causes of death.

This book analyzes Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), with theoretical principles and participants stories.

A consensus on what to teach is an important milestone in preparing a disability competent health care workforce to deliver accessible, patient-centered, quality health care to patients with disabilities.

Understanding the prevalence of mental distress among adults with disabilities could help health care providers, public health professionals, and policy makers target interventions and inform programs and policies to ensure receipt of mental health screening, care, and support services to reduce mental distress.

In the primary grades, decisions regarding the language/s of instruction for emergent bilinguals labeled as disabled (EBLADs) are often made entirely by school representatives with little to no input from the child or the family. These decisions, which often result in a monolingual placement, not only impact the linguistic practices of EBLADs in school but also at home—often leading to a decline in home language use for the child. While monolingual placements for EBLADs are often the result of teachers’, administrators’ and monolingual service providers’ erroneous perceptions and misunderstand...

Findings about physicians' perceptions of this population raise questions about ensuring equitable care to people with disability, and potentially biased views among physicians could contribute to persistent health care disparities affecting people with disabilities.

There are more than 1 billion people living with disabilities (PLWD) worldwide. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is likely to disproportionately affect these individuals, putting them at risk of increased morbidity and mortality, underscoring the urgent need to improve provision of health care for this group and maintain the global health commitment to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC).1Kuper H Heydt P The mission billion: access to health services for 1 billion people with disabilities. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 2019https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/TheMissin...

It was revealed that despite a majority of providers self-reporting not being biased against people with disabilities, implicitly, the overwhelming majority were biased.

The prevalence of mental health problems, interventions to address these, and issues of access to treatment and services are discussed, as well as four directions for addressing the mental health inequity in intellectual disability.

This article envisions and details a critical framework we term feminist-of-color disability studies. In offering a feminist disability studies grounded in the genealogies of US feminist-of-color theory, we identify, challenge, and counter the tendency of feminist disability studies scholars to exclude the intellectual output of women and queers of color. We contend that feminists of color have long written and theorized on topics of illness, health, and disability, yet their vital insights remain largely disregarded by practitioners of feminist disability studies. Within the article, we detai...

Patients with multiple sclerosis acquire disability either through relapse-associated worsening (RAW) or progression independent of relapse activity (PIRA). This study addresses the relative contribution of relapses to disability worsening over the course of the disease, how early progression begins and the extent to which multiple sclerosis therapies delay disability accumulation. Using the Novartis-Oxford multiple sclerosis (NO.MS) data pool spanning all multiple sclerosis phenotypes and paediatric multiple sclerosis, we evaluated ∼200 000 Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) transitions ...

Disability considerations during the COVID-19 outbreakOn 30 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), due to the speed and scale of transmission.WHO and public health authorities around the world are taking action to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. 1 Certain populations, such as those with disability, may be impacted more significantly by COVID-19.This impact can be mitigated if appropriate actions and protective measures are taken by key stakeholders.1 https...

Purpose Creating inclusive schools for students with disabilities is a major leadership responsibility for principals throughout the world. Each national, regional and local context is different, but every principal can help create and support inclusive schools. The purpose of this article is to describe the evolving context of inclusive education and school leadership in the United States aligning what is known to an established leadership framework (Hitt and Tucker, 2016), as there are similarities between the Hitt and Tucker domains and the work of leaders in inclusive schools. The authors ...

Key ethical, legal, and medical dilemmas arising for people with disabilities in the COVID-19 pandemic are considered and clinical and public health policy measures are suggested to ensure that people with disabled are included in the planning of future pandemic-related efforts.

Compared to traditional machine learning, deep learning can learn deeper abstract data representation and understand scattered data properties. It has gained considerable attention for its extraordinary performances. However, existing deep learning algorithms perform poorly on new tasks. Meta-learning, known as learning to learn, is one of the effective techniques to overcome this issue. Meta-learning’s generalization ability to unknown tasks is improved by employing prior knowledge to assist the learning of new tasks. There are mainly three types of meta-learning methods: metric-based, model-...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the development of disability and tourism to the conceptualising and defining of accessible tourism. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a limited review of the literature as its main approach. Findings In reviewing the development of the field from disability and tourism to accessible tourism, it became apparent that there has been a change in focus on the accessibility of the key sectors of tourism (e.g. transport, accommodation and attractions) to incorporating an embodied understanding of tourism in developing accessible destination experiences th...

An analysis of a deeply problematic and troubling dual aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic finds disturbing indications of disablism and oppressive biopolitics in the ‘enforcing of normalcy’ that frames and dominates COVID reconstruction of social life.

A combined approach of next-generation sequencing and functional, electrophysiological, and bioinformatics analysis has identified new ways to understand the causes of ID and help to interpret novel ID-causing genes.

In future pandemics, it is important that lessons are learned from the impacts COVID-19 have on people with ID, and collecting the evidence through a rigorous approach should help to empower people withID and their carers to face future outbreaks of infectious diseases.

This article analyses the perspectives of faculty members on disability in higher education. Their testimonies give value to the attitudes and qualities of university students with disabilities and show how they influence their professional and personal development. We carried out a qualitative study, through interviews with 119 faculty members of different fields from 10 Spanish universities, who were nominated by students with disabilities for developing inclusive pedagogy. We conducted a progressive analysis of the data using a system of categories and codes. The results describe the motiva...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked disproportionate havoc in marginalized racial/ethnic communities, little attention has been given to people with disabilities in the press, public health officials say.

Odds of sexual victimization among individuals with a disability were significantly higher in African countries compared with all others, and odds in Western Europe were significantly lower than in the United States.

People with disabilities have been differentially affected by COVID-19 because of the increased risk of poor outcomes from the disease itself, reduced access to routine health care and rehabilitation, and the adverse social impacts of efforts to mitigate the pandemic.

It is found that workers with disabilities are more likely than those without disabilities both to work primarily from home and to do any work at home, and that while increased availability of home-based work may create more employment opportunities for workers with disability, it is unlikely to erase wage disparities.

Evidence of undesirable biases towards mentions of disability in two different English language models: toxicity prediction and sentiment analysis is presented and it is demonstrated that the neural embeddings that are the critical first step in most NLP pipelines similarly contain undesirable biases.

The pandemic is aggravating many difficulties accessing transportation and other essentials that people with disabilities regularly encounter, and it is recommended that those involved in the pandemic response make a concerted and intentional effort to address barriers to accessing needed transportation, communications, and assistance.

Findings of this study include that the use of Assistive Technologies is successful in increasing the inclusion and accessibility of students with disabilities, although barriers such as teacher education, lack of information or accessibility are found.

Suggestions for urgent short term and medium term responses are suggested so that the United Kingdom and other countries can respond better to this and other pandemics, and build a more inclusive world.

The widespread use of telehealth resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to further exacerbate inequities faced by people with disabilities and addressing such considerations is imperative to mitigate health inequities face by the disability community.

A reflexive analysis of the experiences of three accessibility researchers and one disability studies scholar derives three themes: ableism in research, oversimplification of disability, and human relationships around disability.