Support to individuals with comprehensive disabilities: Ideas in the Swedish Disability Act

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

This chapter describes how families of children with disabilities and accompanying challenging behavior are suitable beneficiaries of positive behavior support (PBS) under provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Thus, the chapter's focus is threefold. First, what are IDEA's basic provisions that authorize families to be involved in their children's education? Secon...

The application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to the termination of the parental rights of individuals with mental disabilities.

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Tobacco industry attempts to frame smoking as a 'disability' under the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act

Using the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library and Congressional records, we examined the tobacco industry's involvement with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). During legislative drafting of the ADA (1989-1990), the Tobacco Institute, the tobacco industry's lobbying and public relations arm at the time, worked with industry lawyers and civil rights groups to include smoking in...

Disability in the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Impact of Awareness of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Background and Goals—Morbidity from the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) can influence patients’ ability to maintain employment. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects workers with medical conditions to include IBD. Whether factors such as education or awareness of the ADA mediate employment has not been studied. We investigated employment outcomes for a subset of IBD patients and ...