Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects.

Multiple Mental Disorders and Suicidality; Cross-Ethnic Variation among Blacks

Background: For psychiatric disorders, comorbidity is a rule rather than exception. Thus it is particularly important to study additive and multiplicative effects of multiple mental disorders on suicidal behaviors. Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the ethnic differences in multiplicative effects of mental disorders on suicidal ideation among Black adults in the United States...

Effects of an Oral Testing Accommodation on the Mathematics Performance of Secondary Students With and Without Learning Disabilities

One of the most important accomplishments of recent U.S. federal education legislation has been to promote the full participation of students with disabilities in state educational accountability systems. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments of 1990, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and the most recent reauthorization of IDEA as the Individuals with Disabilitie...

The Effect of Elementary School Teachers’ Knowledge of Learning Disabilities on Referring Afflicted Students to Speech Therapy

Objectives: Learning disabilities can cause serious communication and socio-emotional disorders in students. Teachers, as specialists who are in direct contact with students on a daily basis, have an important role in identifying and referring students suspected of these disabilities. Therefore, this study investigated the role of primary school teachers’ awareness and attitude about the signs ...

Comparison of Experts and Rangers’ Opinions on Prioritizing Barriers in Participation of Rangers in Range Plans (Case Study: Tehran Province- Lar Moor)

There are some barriers for rangers to take part in range plan projects andevaluation. Their participation is very useful for range managers to plan and provide solutionsfor solving problems. This study aims at comparing barriers of participating from rangers andexperts point of view in Lar moor rangelands, Tehran, Iran. In this research, data werecollected based on documentation-library and fi...

Broad statutory language is not ambiguous: the Americans with Disabilities Act applies in state prisons.