This dissertation examining ancient texts related to disabilities is an attempt to understand community responses to disabled persons among the peoples of the ancient world. By examining ANE law collections, societal conventions, and religious obligations toward the physically d…
Research on pre-service teachers' perspectives toward inclusion in the Egyptian context is almost non-existent. Given this dearth of research, the purpose of this study was to examine pre-service teachers' attitudes toward including students with special needs in general educati…
This study highlights the challenges inherent in attempting to explore and characterize special education models of practice in developing nations. Many such nations, where individuals with disabilities have traditionally been excluded from mainstream education, are increasingly…
The study investigated Nigerians' overall attitudes toward people with disabilities, attitudes toward employment and people with disabilities, attitudes toward living arrangements and people with disabilities, and attitudes toward people with mental disabilities and other groups…
This study hypothesized that different historical records of equal rights and educational policy may account for negative attitudes toward people with disabilities. This hypothesis was tested by comparing the equal rights, beliefs, and attitudes toward excluded groups of two sam…
This study analyzed the perceptions of mothers of children with disabilities in Qatar. This interpretive work included components of the methodology of both cultural study and translation study. Mothers? responses in Arabic and Farsi, were translated, separated, and analyzed thr…
Data for this ethnographic study were collected over a period of two months in Islamabad, Pakistan. This study explored the daily life experiences of eleven mothers who cared for children with disabilities in a low socioeconomic setting. A holistic perspective of caregiving beli…