Albinism is an inherited skin pigmentation condition which affects all races in the world. However, more conspicuous among black population because of absence leads to some whitish appearance. This also multiple disabling experiences individuals with albinism. The overriding aim study was establish learning learners albinism both regular and special schools. located within interpretive qualitat...

Disability is associated with negativity, discrimination, shame, and stigma in townships, which impacts how parents interpret it when their child has a disability. Parents who have recently learned of children’s intellectual disability often experience psychological emotional trauma due to uncertainty lack knowledge understanding disabilities, including formalized policy-supported transition pr...

Initial research into the use of Emotion Coaching (EC) in educational settings has suggested that it can support social and emotional development, promote positive relationships behaviour. This used a sequential mixed-methods design to examine factors which impact on implementation EC. The views 40 staff across six mainstream primary schools UK who had undertaken whole-school training EC were e...

Background Although there is research-based evidence on the educational potential of information and communication technologies as teaching learning resources for schools, studies focused real benefits risks associated with online activities students intellectual disabilities are still scarce. The purpose this study was to describe compare teachers' perspectives topic in relation a school setti...

As more and more K—12 students gain access to the Internet at home and at school, the potential exists for students, families, and schools to use this resource in new ways. However, we know little about Internet use and perceptions by students and families from outside the middle class, mainstream U.S. culture. This study presents cases of four Latino middle school students frvm three families ...

Over the past decade, governmental agencies, medical schools, influential voices in the media, and the public at large have seen a remarkable surge of interest in alternative medicine in the United States. While many therapies focus on unproven but otherwise spiritually neutral approaches (for example, nutritional supplements), others arise from or validate worldviews — especially the monism ("...

By a content analysis of newspaper articles were identified main challenges of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder present in the media: lack of services reimbursed by the state, difficulties of inclusion in mainstream schools, fear of the future because the lack of services for adults with autism, unrecognized disorder in adulthood and cessation of financial support received from...

The treatment of uncertainty is a key problem in artificial intelligence. Nowadays, the field is split in two schools: a mainstream that adopts probabilistic methods and an alternative school that advocates the use of other approaches. In this paper, we argue that this split is due to the lack of a philosophical analysis of what we call the non-adequacy claim, which is the main argument current...

This brief paper describes the background to the literacy activities designed in our project and then considers its fit with the National Curriculum. The main assumption behind the idea of setting up the family-school partnership is that hearing and deaf children must reach similar aims in literacy; so it is possible to start the children‟s learning in the classroom with the same activities. Ho...