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  2. Disability in children's literature - Wikipedia

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    Professor Ian Davidson and colleagues analyzed the depiction of disabled characters in a collection of 19th children's literature from the Toronto Public Library. [5] The researchers found certain common characteristics of disability representation in 19th-century children's literature: disabled characters rarely appeared as individuals, but are usually depicted as impersonal groups and ...

  3. Parent 'saw red' after disabled students turned away from ...

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    Parents are furious after school officials in Maryland informed them that their special education students were denied service by a Cracker Barrel restaurant during an educational outing.

  4. 'It could have been my son': Parents to protest over students ...

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    The students attend Dr. James Craik Elementary School and belong to the district's ACHIEVE program, for students with "significant cognitive disabilities" and SOAR program, for students with autism.

  5. Dad says daughter was called 'this': Angry parents protest ...

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    The students attend Dr. James Craik Elementary School and belong to the district's ACHIEVE program, for students with "significant cognitive disabilities" and SOAR program, for students with autism.

  6. Disengagement from education - Wikipedia

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    Despite in schools girls and boys are given equal opportunities, there are some factors that affect female students that lead them to disengage from education. Reasons for the disengagement from education by girls are poverty, early marriage, teenage pregnancy, harmful traditional practices like initiation rites , and gender-based violence .

  7. Disability studies in education - Wikipedia

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    Disability studies in education (DSE) is a field of academic study concerned with education research and practice related to disability.DSE scholars promote an understanding of disability from a social model of disability perspective to "challenge social, medical, and psychological models of disability as they relate to education". [1]

  8. List of fictional characters with disabilities - Wikipedia

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    In the first book of the series, Adam becomes deaf in his left ear due to abuse. [12] 2012 Hazel Grace Lancaster, Augustus Waters, and several other characters The Fault in our Stars: John Green: The book is about characters with several types of cancer and resulting disabilities including a blind character and one with a prosthetic leg. [13 ...

  9. Harriet McBryde Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Harriet McBryde Johnson was born in eastern North Carolina, July 8, 1957, in Laurinburg, one of five children by David and Ada Johnson. Her parents were college teachers. [ 1 ] She was a feisty child: A quote from her sister said that "Harriet tried to get an abusive teacher fired; the start of her hell raising."