Disability studies

sixteen girls with a mean age of 10.42 years in 5th and 6th grade volunteered to take part in the study. The school district that the study took place in had a full inclusion policy with a mandate for all children within the school district to have the right to attend regular classrooms regardless of the presence or absence of disabilities. All the student participants had classmates with disabilities, with three to six children on individualized education plans (IEPs) for cognitive, physical…

about what a disability life would resemble the majority of the time they end up coming up short. Allen Rucker gives us the opportunity to develop a detailed perspective. After waking up one day with a cold to ending it paralyzed for the rest of his life. Rucker considered himself a healthy, athletic family man who work in Hollywood, he was only fifty-one- year-old when everything changed. By taking this novel and analyzing it with concepts about the sociological views of disability it helps us…

Even though the inclusion of intersectionality within Disability Studies allowed for an expansion on the focus on a variety of different issues affecting individuals with disabilities, I wish to focus my paper within the context of K-12 education and the marginalization of disabled students of color. As was explained in the article, “Disability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit): Theorizing at the Intersections of Race and Dis/ability,” written by Subini Ancy Annamma, David J. Connor, and Beth A.…

school with a disability: therefore, I thought Jackson State University of Disability Services would expand knowledge of those suffering with a disability. The Department of Disability Services assist those who have a disability. According to, American Disability Act (ADA), benefit students with physical, psychological, intellectual, attention deficit disorder, visual impairments, traumatic, hearing impairments, learning disabilities, medical disabilities and mobility disabilities, but students…

Annotated Bibliography Farquharson, M. (2003). Stranded in the past. Learning Disability Practice, 6(10), 6-7. This peer reviewed article investigates into the placement of children with learning disabilities into institutions in Russia. The living conditions of the children in these systems raise issues of care and neglect and also questions the credibility of the system that allows for these children to be diagnosed uneducable and placed in the institutions at birth. The author’s intention…

Article #2: Participation-based therapy for children with physical disabilities The aim of this article is to evaluate the possible benefits of participation-based therapy, which incorporates goal development, family-centered collaboration with therapist, strength-based, ecology, and self-determination as the foundation for this approach. Participation-based therapy arose from the belief that the dynamic interactions of child, family, and environment (determinants); along with physical, social,…

adequate education to students with disabilities. Many strategies have been implemented and studied to determine a possible solution to this problem. Inclusion is one of the current strategies being tested. In order for inclusion programs to be implemented properly it is important to understand the definition of inclusion programs and the desired outcome they hope to achieve in educational psychology. An inclusion program means that students with disabilities will spend all or the majority of…

Disadvantaged by disability and/or the school and education system. In Australia, there are many different disabilities and some of these disabilities start before and even during school. These disabilities may or may not be permanent, however, all disabilities impact the individual and their environment. Schooling is one area of life which can be affected by a disability. A broken leg or arm can be accommodated with much more ease as it will most likely be fixed and is just a temporary…

Darnell is a 5th grade student with a learning disability and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He has an issue with impulsive and inattentive behaviors that often get him in trouble in the classroom. Darnell has been suspended 26 times for about a combination of 30 days. He was told that he would still be provided services through in home tutoring during his suspension, but during his latest suspension he had only received services once so far. In his latest instance, he was thought…

Lucy is a little girl who loves cookie dough ice cream, the color pink and Barbie dolls. At the age of six she was diagnosed with the autism spectrum disorder, but she really didn’t understand the meaning of the word “disability” until her parents enrolled her in their neighborhood public school under the assumption that the school would provide a range of appropriate services that would assure her social and academic success. Her parents were unprepared to say the least for the school’s…