Students with learning disabilities are now taught in inclusive classrooms in Saudi Arabia. There is a lack of research on female general education teachers' knowledge of and skills related to the inclusion of students with learning disabilities. The purpose of this mixed method…
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The purpose of the current study was to examine the perspectives of King Saud University (KSU) faculty members toward the provision of accommodations for college students with ADHD and to identify differences among participants based on gender, nationality, having previous teach…
This study compared perceived stress in fathers and mothers of male children with intellectual disabilities. The sample consisted of 102 fathers and 102 mothers of children with intellectual disabilities who were enrolled at institutes for male children with intellectual disabil…
Of particular concern to this study, was the lack of research regarding special education teachers' knowledge of IEPs and their perceived skills in developing and implementing IEPs in Kuwait. Thus, this study was conducted to explore special education teachers' perceptions about…
The present study was designed to measure differences in elementary school teachers' attitudes toward willingness to teach students with ADHD in their classrooms in Riyadh City in Saudi Arabia through a descriptive non-experimental quantitative research instrument. The study exa…
Scope of Study. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of Nigerian Students in the United States, toward handicapped persons, using six demographic variables (gender, religion, age, academic major, number of years spent in the United States, and regio…
The primary purposes of this study were to investigate the attitudes of teachers and principals based on demographic and experiential variables and to make recommendations for teacher training and program development based on the results of the study. Subjects were (N = 450) ele…
This study was designed to analyze the relationship between the criterion variable of attitudes and the predictor variables of contact with students with severe disabilities, current environmental arrangements, educational position, total years of educational experience, and maj…
This study evaluated the effect of extended testing time on classroom tests for postsecondary students with and without learning disabilities. Two hundred and thirty-five college students, primarily freshmen, were enrolled in 11 sections of General Psychology at a moderately siz…
The purposes of this study were to assess (a) the prevalence of suicidal thoughts, depression, and substance abuse among Mexican American youth enrolled in special education classes for severe emotional disturbances, (b) teacher knowledge and experiences relative to suicidal tho…
This action research examines the special education teachers’ role perception as manager/leader of an interdisciplinary team. The need to examine the “problem sensation”, which was defined and verified in this study, resulted from the implementation of the special education law …
This research examines the experiences of special education parents as narrators of their own stories. The study looks at language, tradition and narrative and what influence they play in the parents' understanding and acceptance of their child's disability in three different co…
The purpose of this research study was to examine the extent and impact to which cultural perceptions of special education administrators affect or influence special education policies in Nigeria. This research focused on five policy issues: (1) administrators' beliefs about lea…
Educational policy changes in the U.S. have contributed to a shift in more students with special needs being educated in inclusive classrooms alongside their general education peers. While this technical change in location is a promising move toward a more socially just experien…
Researchers across domains of behavior analysis agree that complexities of language acquisition can be defined by the degree to which an individual acquires language relations in the absence of direct training. In a series of studies, I examined the role of voluntary echoic resp…
This study explores the perceptions of African-American parents on the decision to homeschool their children. The primary research question of this study was, “What are the primary motivating factors that supported the decision of African-American parents to homeschool their chi…
Today, education is perhaps more important than at any other time in history. Amid the ever-accumulating frequency of technological, systematic and social change in the world, the right to a valuable education should expand to all children. The tremendously damaging information …
The subject of this research is to present goals and strategies of religious education for pupils afflicted with moderate mental retardation, who are learning in segregated special education schools in Israel. The premise of this paper is that moderately mentally retarded indivi…