Services for people with learning disabilities have been transformed since the late 1960s have been transformed since the late 1960s by the move from institutional to community by the move from institutional to community care. (Learning disabilities is the term care. (Learning disabilities is the term currently used in the UK in preference to currently used in the UK in preference to mental ret...

The prevalence of learning disabilities (LD) in higher education has drawn significant attention at the undergraduate level. College freshmen reporting learning disabilities have increased significantly in the past twenty years. Although anecdotal evidence suggests an increase in the number of dental students with learning disabilities, nothing has been published regarding how dental education ...

Making the educational experience inclusive of people with disabilities has benefits for all learners. Modifications and enhancements intended for learners with sensory, physical or learning disabilities often make the learning environment more flexible and engaging for students without disabilities. This paper will present several initiatives that promote inclusive teaching and learning, but a...

This paper examines the effects of temporary protection in a model of international Cournot competition under the learning curve. We show that when the protected firm can choose among multiple technologies subject to different scopes for learning, the positive relationship between current production and learning cannot be relied upon. The protection may hurt the long-run competitiveness of the ...

A dispersion in cognitive abilities is expected in normal populations. Specific learning disabilities would represent an extreme polarity in a continuum of normal cognitive dispersion. Three propositions relative to learning disabilities are advanced in the present paper. First, specific learning disabilities are expected to be found for diverse cognitive functions, even though some of these sp...