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.

Despite growing appreciation of the need for research on autism in adulthood, few survey instruments have been validated for use with autistic adults. We conducted an institutional ethnography of two related partnerships that used participatory approaches to conduct research in collaboration with autistic people and people with intellectual disability. In this article, we focus on lessons learned from adapting survey instruments for use in six separate studies. Community partners identified several common problems that made original instruments inaccessible. Examples included: (1) the use of d...

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.

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

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.

The medical model of disability describes a widespread approach to disability common since the 1800s that views disabilities of all sorts as abnormalities that need to be cured or eradicated.Under the medical model of disability, medical care for disabled people has focused on making the bodies and brains of disabled people conform as closely as possible to society's idea of a normal person.This emphasis on normalization was and continues to be extremely harmful to disabled people.In this paper, I propose retroactively changing the term medical model of disability to normalization model of dis...

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...

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.

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.