Browsing by Subject "disability"
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(2009-05-29)Department: Special EducationFrom the psychoanalytic literature, families of children who have died are likely to have replacement children. This study examines, in comparison to families of children without disabilities, whether families of children ...
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(2006-07-29)Department: Special EducationUsing a sample of children seen at two Tennessee Centers of Excellence for Children in State Custody (COE’s), this study examined characteristics of abused children with disabilities compared to abused children without ...
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Blue Run (2017-07-13)Department: Creative WritingMy thesis explores landscape and memory as thin places—the meeting places between opposites, particularly between humanity and divinity. My initial poem, “Memory Palace,” both praises the brain’s power and acknowledges ...
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Breaking the Silence: Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities Speak-Up About Their Support Needs (2024-02-26)Sibling relationships are important in that they can help predict the social-emotional development, understanding, and outcomes, and help shape the relationship between them. Due to these multi-facet predictors, it is ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: Community Research & ActionAlthough community and environmental psychologists have examined stigma against mentally and intellectually disabled people for decades, we rarely extend this analysis to wheelchair users. In addition, we tend to overlook ...
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(2012-08-10)Department: Special EducationAlthough policy and research support family-school partnerships to increase student achievement, few studies have attempted to determine which variables influence such partnerships. This study relied on a national dataset ...
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(Texas Tech Law Review, 2019)This Article honors three of Professor Arnold Loewy's articles. The first, published over thirty years ago, is entitled Culpability, Dangerousness, and Harm: Balancing the Factors on Which Our Criminal Law is Predicated,' ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Community Research & ActionInclusive education examines the ways in which educational policies and practices construct and respond to difference. Policies and practices for inclusive education challenge the spatial segregation of difference, emphasizing ...
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(2016-04-14)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyChildren of low socioeconomic status (SES) families with intellectual and developmental disabilities have higher rates of dental caries but significant unmet dental needs due to unique factors such as low Medicaid reimbursement ...
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(2015-03-17)Department: SociologyWhat happens when established social classifications are challenged? In this dissertation, I investigate the classification of “Deafness” as it has been disrupted by advancements in medical technologies and corresponding ...
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(2013-06-17)Department: PhilosophyWorking at the nexus of bioethics and disability studies, I argue that the quest for human enhancement is at least partially motivated by the rejection of the disabled body. In other words, positive and negative eugenics ...