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Articles
1-100 out of 100 article(s)
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| MUM'S TERROR AS GANG SHOOT SON; Gunmen target boy with learning difficulties. |
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Nov 5, 2009 |
369 |
| Learning disabilities. |
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Nov 2, 2009 |
52 |
| For PC problems and learning difficulties, it's a Wyn, Wyn! ADVERTISING FEATURE. |
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Oct 21, 2009 |
742 |
| End the special-ed racket: vouchers can reduce false diagnoses of learning disabilities while helping both the truly disabled and the misdiagnosed. |
Winters, Marcus A.; Greene, Jay P. |
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Oct 19, 2009 |
1118 |
| Learning disability meet to focus on training. |
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Oct 10, 2009 |
393 |
| United States: The Foundation For Learning Development Releases Learning Disabilities Research Results. |
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Sep 26, 2009 |
401 |
| Learning difficulties; COMMENT. |
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Sep 23, 2009 |
104 |
| Ciao Bella! Who say's kids can't make a difference? Not 11-year-old Bella Thorne. The Florida-born, California-based actress, who appeared most recently as Ruthie Spivey on the NBC sitcom "My Own Worst Enemy", has been involved with everything from animal shelters to food banks to raising awareness for dyslexia. "So many kids want to help other people now, and that's a great thing," Bella told kidsworld. |
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Sep 22, 2009 |
437 |
| Top tips to be a good supporter: the role of the supporter is to empower people with learning difficulties. So a 'bad' supporter is someone who constantly takes over or undermines the person they are meant to support. |
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Sep 22, 2009 |
477 |
| Putting the tools in their hands: Clickstart is an innovative project run jointly by the Rix Centre and Ellingham employment services. Described as 'multi-media advocacy', it is giving people with learning difficulties the opportunity to create their own accessible websites. Sean Kelly visited the Centre to find out how this works. |
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Sep 22, 2009 |
1138 |
| Founder of Goldhay Arts to head learning disability coalition. |
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Sep 22, 2009 |
266 |
| Victims and witnesses with learning difficulties should have access to justice says Director of public prosecutions. |
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Sep 22, 2009 |
471 |
| Valuing employment now is a long-awaited strategy which deserves to work--but can it? Working out how to increase the employment of people with learning difficulties has been a long and hard fought issue. The government has at last produced a strategy--but in the current era of high unemployment, what chance does it have of succeeding? |
Holman, Andrew |
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Sep 22, 2009 |
1409 |
| Being a supporter means learning what it's like to be patronized: Gill Levy found her role as a supporter a great change after 21 years of providing information on eye care for people with learning difficulties. For one thing, she learned what many people with learning difficulties have to endure--what it's like to be patronised. |
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Sep 22, 2009 |
712 |
| Gene linked with language, speech, reading disorders identified. |
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Aug 28, 2009 |
287 |
| Dyslexia no barrier for Samantha; ADVERTISING FEATURE. |
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Aug 26, 2009 |
1351 |
| Teen spared custody for blackmailing ex; Woman menaced man with learning difficulties by text. |
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Aug 13, 2009 |
302 |
| Learning disorder (Dyslexia) (Education). |
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Jul 29, 2009 |
1381 |
| Giving patients the answers; A new health care record has been launched to help empower patients to improve their health. Health Reporter HELEN RAE explains. |
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Jul 20, 2009 |
598 |
| Alexia R. Girouard. |
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Jul 5, 2009 |
72 |
| Influence of a misleading context on a design-copying task with children with and without learning disabilities. |
Cote, Carol A. |
Report |
Jul 1, 2009 |
6374 |
| Functional skill learning in men with traumatic brain injury. |
Giuffrida, Clare G.; Demery, Jason A.; Reyes, Lisa R.; Lebowitz, Brian K.; Hanlon, Robert E. |
Report |
Jul 1, 2009 |
6906 |
| Bed push demo a symbolic gesture; PETITION: Stunt highlights limited social lives of people with learning disabilities. |
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Jun 27, 2009 |
296 |
| Comparison of pen and keyboard transcription modes in children with and without learning disabilities. |
Berninger, Virginia W.; Abbott, Robert D.; Augsburger, Amy; Garcia, Noelia |
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Jun 22, 2009 |
12721 |
| Effects of a computerized program on use of the test-taking strategy by secondary students with disabilities. |
Lancaster, Paula E.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Lancaster, Sean J.C.; Deshler, Donald D. |
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Jun 22, 2009 |
8299 |
| Inclusive postsecondary strategies for teaching students with learning disabilities: a review of the literature. |
Orr, Ann C.; Hammig, Sara Bachman |
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Jun 22, 2009 |
10749 |
| Look at me now - eight stones lighter; John's fondness for fish and chips took its toll: People with learning disabilities often struggle to maintain a healthy weight. But, as 58-year-old John Harling, who lives in a Mencap in Kirklees home, has proved, it's never too late to fight the flab and gain a new lease of life. Hilarie Stelfox reports. |
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Jun 17, 2009 |
730 |
| 'Disgusting cuts are targeting vulnerable' Angry dad hits out over learning disability cash. |
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Jun 10, 2009 |
407 |
| Help for those with learning disabilities. |
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May 29, 2009 |
199 |
| Political Heavyweight, Former Lamar Alexander Communications Director Alexia Poe Joins Peritus. |
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May 18, 2009 |
398 |
| Finding the right match; College choices for learning disabled. |
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May 18, 2009 |
1119 |
| Angharad's plus points make her the top citizen; Award given for helping people with learning difficulties. |
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May 11, 2009 |
297 |
| Nine new X chromosome genes linked to learning disabilities identified. |
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Apr 20, 2009 |
359 |
| Learning disability centres opened. |
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Apr 9, 2009 |
136 |
| Dyslexia tag 'is abused by parents' EDUCATION. |
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Apr 8, 2009 |
120 |
| Dyslexia tag 'is abused by parents' EDUCATION. |
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Apr 8, 2009 |
105 |
| Fears grow that NHS money will be insufficient to implement Valuing People Now: the NHS will be unable to meet demands for increased social care funding for learning disability services, the NHS Confederation has warned. |
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Brief article |
Apr 1, 2009 |
197 |
| Let's make it a life worth living: human rights & learning disabilities: conference organised by the British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) and The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR). |
Simcoe, Diane |
Conference notes |
Apr 1, 2009 |
779 |
| One day training course: mental health & learning disabilities: the Clear Thoughts project has developed a one day training course about mental health in learning disability. The session is aimed at front line staff working with individuals and their supervisors. |
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Brief article |
Apr 1, 2009 |
67 |
| Give us the chance to be parents to our children; In association with Coventry Fostering Service. |
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Mar 31, 2009 |
531 |
| Block tendering is "just bad commissioning" says Minister. |
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Brief article |
Mar 22, 2009 |
173 |
| We need our day care centres; ADULT DAY CARE Birmingham has more people with learning difficulties in day care centres than any other authority, but a shake-up is being forced as costs escalate. Health Correspondent ALISON DAYANI talks to those who rely on the service. |
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Mar 21, 2009 |
827 |
| Extremely premature kids likely to face learning difficulties by age 11. |
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Mar 12, 2009 |
295 |
| New school targets learning difficulties. |
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Mar 11, 2009 |
125 |
| A blueberry-enriched diet provides cellular protection against oxidative stress and reduces a kainate-induced learning impairment in rats. |
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Brief article |
Feb 1, 2009 |
172 |
| Promoting active engagement in small group learning experiences for students with autism and significant learning needs. |
Carnahan, Christi; Musti-Rao, Shobana; Bailey, Jody |
Report |
Feb 1, 2009 |
7773 |
| Focus on learning difficulties. |
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Jan 31, 2009 |
240 |
| United Kingdom: Invitation to tender for the provision of care and support to people with a learning disability in Dudley. |
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Jan 16, 2009 |
150 |
| A "forgotten learning disability". |
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Brief article |
Jan 1, 2009 |
200 |
| Lucy loves her chance to work; Charity Mencap offered a chance to 33-year-old with learning difficulties. |
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Dec 2, 2008 |
353 |
| United Kingdom: Invitation to tender: Employment development for people with learning disabilities. |
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Oct 23, 2008 |
159 |
| You must use a PIN, Tesco tells man with numbers dyslexia; Tim Arnold: Rare illness. |
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Oct 8, 2008 |
524 |
| Alexia introduces. |
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Oct 1, 2008 |
106 |
| Neurodevelopmental variation as a framework for thinking about the twice exceptional. |
Gilger, Jeffrey W.; Hynd, George W. |
Report |
Oct 1, 2008 |
12581 |
| The invisible disability: teens tackle learning disabilities. |
Farrington, Jan |
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Oct 1, 2008 |
1349 |
| Book's award for novel approach to health advice; In association with the NHS A diabetes book has won a national award for helping people in Tyneside with learning disabilities. Health Reporter HELEN RAE investigates. |
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Sep 29, 2008 |
330 |
| Band set to break down the barriers; GROUP INCLUDES SINGERS WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES. |
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Sep 26, 2008 |
496 |
| Funding cuts: new report tells it like it is: Sean Kelly attended the launch of the Learning Disability Coalition's report Tell it like it is, organised by Tom Clarke, MP at the House of Commons. |
Kelly, Sean |
Conference notes |
Sep 22, 2008 |
603 |
| Learning alternatives and strategies for students who are struggling. |
Johnston, Don C. |
Cover story |
Sep 1, 2008 |
2382 |
| Dublin Rose Hannah is too clever for words; Beauty beat dyslexia to get degree. |
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Aug 25, 2008 |
508 |
| Melatonin prevents learning disorders in brain-lesioned newborn mice. |
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Brief article |
Aug 1, 2008 |
254 |
| Response-to-intervention: separating the rhetoric of self-congratulation from the reality of specific learning disability identification. |
Kavale, Kenneth A.; Kauffman, James M.; Bachmeier, Randy J.; LeFever, Gretchen B. |
Report |
Jun 22, 2008 |
13234 |
| "Be Mencap--and continue to remind us of the old institutions". |
Harbridge, Elinor |
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Jun 22, 2008 |
425 |
| Learning disability today: Manchester 8 July. |
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Calendar |
Jun 22, 2008 |
141 |
| "Its time the DH and NHS stop asking what to do and get on and do it": Rob Greig has written to Lord Darzi, who is chairing the NHS review, expressing in strong terms the disappointment of representatives of organisations for people with learning difficulties that their sector is being excluded from the review process. |
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Jun 22, 2008 |
772 |
| Events. |
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Calendar |
Mar 22, 2008 |
181 |
| Valuing people now--is this a formula for real change? this event, organised by BILD, took place less than a week after its launch. It was the first chance for many of those who attended to express their views on the new consultation document. |
Kelly, Sean |
Conference notes |
Mar 22, 2008 |
566 |
| Perspective. |
Bell, Carl C. |
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Feb 1, 2008 |
369 |
| Understanding adults with learning disabilities: as more young adults who received school-based accommodations for their learning disabilities enter the workforce, employers need to understand how they are faring in employment settings. |
Gerber, Paul J. |
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Jan 1, 2008 |
1712 |
| Learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder: a new approach for the criminal justice system. |
Admire, David S. |
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Dec 22, 2007 |
5932 |
| Effects of co-occurring disorders on employment outcomes in a multisite randomized study of supported employment for people with severe mental illness. |
Cook, Judith A.; Razzano, Lisa A.; Burke-Miller, Jane K.; Blyler, Crystal R.; Leff, H. Stephen; Mues |
Clinical report |
Nov 1, 2007 |
8404 |
| Increasing story quality through planning and revising: effects on young writers with learning disabilities. |
Saddler, Bruce; Asaro, Kristie |
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Sep 22, 2007 |
6270 |
| Effects of curriculum maps and guiding questions on the test performance of adolescents with learning disabilities. |
Lenz, B. Keith; Adams, Gary L.; Bulgren, Janis A.; Pouliot, Norman; Laraux, Michelle |
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Sep 22, 2007 |
6114 |
| The effects of instruction in an inference strategy on the reading comprehension skills of adolescents with disabilities. |
Fritschmann, Nanette Salim; Deshler, Donald D.; Schumaker, Jean Bragg |
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Sep 22, 2007 |
9048 |
| Smart communication. |
Schoenfeld, Jane |
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Sep 1, 2007 |
2389 |
| Calling the shots: parents opting out of immunizations raise serious public health issues. |
Knopper, Melissa |
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Aug 17, 2007 |
920 |
| Adults with dual diagnoses of intellectual and psychiatric disability receiving Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) and ICF/MR recipients in six states. |
Lakin, K. Charlie; Doljanic, Robert; Taub, Sarah; Chiri, Giuseppina; Byun, Soo-Yong |
Report |
Jul 1, 2007 |
7543 |
| Promises and cautions regarding using response to intervention with English language learners. |
Haager, Diane |
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Jun 22, 2007 |
4296 |
| Scaffolding the writing of students with disabilities through procedural facilitation: using an Internet-based technology to improve performance. |
Wolbers, Kimberly |
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Jan 1, 2007 |
12662 |
| Learning disabilities and young children: identification and intervention: a report from the National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities * October, 2006. |
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Jan 1, 2007 |
6783 |
| Learning disabilities, schools, and neurological dysfunction. |
Neufeld, Paul; Takacs, Seanna |
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Dec 22, 2006 |
5485 |
| MRI study links anterior thalamocortical tract abnormalities to learning disabilities. |
Schonfeld, Amy Rothman |
Clinical report |
Oct 1, 2006 |
434 |
| Sleep disorder tied to brain ills in kids. |
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Sep 9, 2006 |
232 |
| Seminars. |
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Brief article |
Aug 14, 2006 |
94 |
| Hearing problems best detected early. |
Arias, Donya C. |
Brief article |
Aug 1, 2006 |
151 |
| The effect of comorbid AD/HD and learning disabilities on parent-reported behavioral and academic outcomes of children. |
Adams, Gail |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
7769 |
| Responsiveness to intervention and the identification of specific learning disability: a critique and alternative proposal. |
Mostert, Mark P. |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
10542 |
| NCLB & IDEA. |
Ullman, Ellen |
Interview |
Dec 1, 2005 |
274 |
| Psychological perspectives in assessing mathematics learning needs. |
Phillips, Donna Kester |
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Dec 1, 2005 |
5429 |
| Learning curve: what it's like to be disabled. |
McGowan, Jo |
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Oct 21, 2005 |
909 |
| Reading miscues of college students with and without learning disabilities. |
Warde, Beverly A. |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
6160 |
| An exploratory investigation of structured writing strategy training for African-American college students with learning disabilities. |
Nicholas, Karen R.; Menchetti, Bruce M.; Nettles, Stephen M. |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
7923 |
| "The time has come," the walrus said, "to speak of many things!". |
Larson, Nancy Weidner |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
921 |
| Responsiveness to intervention and learning disabilities. |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
8364 |
| Effect of acquisition rates on off-task behavior with children identified as having learning disabilities. |
Dean, Vincent J. |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
4318 |
| The effects of disability labels on special education and general education teachers' referrals for gifted programs. |
Bianco, Margarita |
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Sep 22, 2005 |
6700 |
| Restoring hope in substance-using teens with learning disabilities. |
Cameron, Franklin |
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Sep 1, 2005 |
2503 |
| Using incremental rehearsal to increase fluency of single-digit multiplication facts with children identified as learning disabled in mathematics computation. |
Burns, Matthew K. |
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Aug 1, 2005 |
5178 |
| A comparison of school-based and community-based adherence to wraparound during family planning meetings. |
Nordness, Philip D. |
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Aug 1, 2005 |
5410 |
| Nutrient Supplementation and Learning Disabilities. |
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Clinical report |
Jun 1, 2000 |
469 |
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