Sentences with phrase «rather than disability»

This act should have a paramount focus on the barriers to full accessibility, rather than disability.

The majority of the Alberta Court of Appeal concluded that the dismissal of an employee, whose cocaine addiction came to light following a post-incident drug test, did not constitute discrimination as the employee had been dismissed for failing to disclose his problem and continuing to use drugs, rather than the disability itself.

In fact, according to Whitmore and Maker (1985), more gains are seen when intervention focuses on the gift rather than the disability.

Basing those weights on services needed by children rather than disability diagnoses significantly improves the accuracy of this system.

The pilot preaches the gospel of: (1) adoptive parents versus birth parents; (2) deafness as culture, rather than disability; (3) the danger of class - based stereotypes in self - expression, self - destruction, and self - adornment, among other things.

Not exact matches

Sponsors refer to the money as «compensation» rather than «wages,» but guinea pigs must pay taxes, and they are given no retirement benefits, disability insurance, workers» compensation, or overtime pay.

@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.

According to Yong, since Jesus experienced bodily disfigurement on the cross, «this Christologically defined imago Dei would thus be inclusive rather than exclusive of the human experience of disability.»

My article sought to briefly introduce the three frameworks (integrity, disability, and diversity) through which transgender matters can be seen rather than offer an....

The testimonies of women (and it is almost always mothers) who care for children with disabilities remain separate, in a distinct category of «affliction,» rather than seeping into the broader analysis of the individual decisions to terminate pregnancies.

I feared he thought he may be responsible for a child with a disability, and would feel as if he had to remain with us once finishing high school, rather than leave for college.

Rather than focus on all the bad things about your child's disability, talk about all the people who are making a big effort to help him.

How wonderful would it be if we looked at a disability as a potential advantage rather than a pathology!

The concept that children with FASDs «can't» rather than «won't» is particularly important, since children with FASDs tend to have good basic language skills and superficial social skills that often mask the extent of true disabilities.

Some parents prefer to hire PCAs with experience working with children with disabilities, while others prefer to start with a blank slate rather than have to «unteach» old habits.

She taught children with severe disabilities so well that they often were kept in her class rather than moved to a new room.

If your child is struggling, and you suspect a pattern of difficulties rather than an isolated instance, speak first with your child's teacher and other school authorities about your concerns and to set up learning disability testing.

«Grant Shapps, the Conservative Party Chairman, has been rebuked for wrongly claiming that nearly one million people on disability benefits had dropped their claims rather than face medical checks.

How will you use your office to affirm or strengthen, rather than weaken, civil rights protections for persons with disabilities?

The level of disability would be determined by Social Security rules, rather than city officials, Lander said.

It follows a separate confidential human rights inquiry by the UN into alleged violations of disability rights following welfare reforms, though this second investigation will be held in public and is more akin to a routine checkup rather than a response to an emergency situation.

Meanwhile medical explanations for disability are beginning to emerge, with increasing numbers of families seeking medical advice for children with disabilities rather than consulting a witchdoctor.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

In addition, psychology coursework appears to focus more on the least - common disabilities, including psychiatric disabilities and cognitive disabilities, rather than the most common disabilities, such as chronic health and physical disabilities.

Geriatric conditions, rather than multimorbidity, as predictors of disability and mortality among octogenarians: a population - based cohort study

«By focusing on the successful outcomes of jobseekers and employees with disabilities, rather than the barriers, we are reframing the discourse and adding to the growing body of knowledge on best employment practices.»

However using your disability as an excuse makes it is easy to give up rather than to try again.

However rather than just looking to connect together people who have disabilities, the app is open and inclusive to everyone.

Both heroes answer the call and work with their disabilities rather than against them.

The film offers little in the way of drama, but that, to an extent, is the point — the film's goal, after all, is to show its subjects managing their disability rather than struggling with it.

It's not the gross - out slapstick, although I think they do that better than most, but rather a level of intelligence and sensitivity that allows them to deliver — under the radar, as it were — strong humanist messages about the objectification of women, the empowerment of people with physical and emotional disabilities, and the importance of establishing in any kind of relationship a measure of compromise and independence.

According to the story, which is told by Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis in their book, Light Up Your Childs Mind, the student learned in a way that accented his talent rather than be punished for his apparent disability in writing.

He learned in a way that accented his talent rather than be punished for his apparent disability in writing.

When he controlled for student gender, SES, prior achievement, and misbehavior (e.g, suspensions and fights), and for teachers gender, race, years of experience, teaching credential, and education., Cooc found teachers were more likely to believe that white students, rather than minorities, have disabilities.

«Rather than increasing school safety, zero tolerance often leads to indiscriminate suspensions and expulsions for both serious and mild infractions and disproportionately impacts students from minority status backgrounds and those with disabilities.»

«If there are concerns about the impact of having students with disabilities in our classrooms, perhaps the focus should be on providing additional teaching and professional development resources rather than singling out a student or group of students.»

An equally large majority favor the education of students with emotional and behavioral disabilities in separate classrooms rather than «mainstreaming» them, as is common practice.

Rather than forcing parents to navigate the system and fight on behalf of their children, investing in systems to better ensure that schools, classrooms, and curriculum meet the needs of students with disabilities can better support parents of children with disabilities.

Rothbart's own motivation stemmed from years of frustration with individuals and systems that hurt rather than helped her children, with teachers who did not understand learning disabilities or believe her children had learning disabilities.

The Union campaigns vigorously to fit the job to the worker, rather than the worker to the job — the social model of disability.

«Giftedness» can look very similar to «disability» when your focus is on looking for problems rather than unusual abilities.

Too often charter schools, like other public schools, lack the specialized knowledge to know how to serve students with disabilities, especially severe disabilities, and to meet their needs directly, rather than serving them through a private placement outside of the school.

In the Supreme Court brief, which addresses two consolidated cases, Tustin Unified School District v. K.M. and Poway Unified School District v. D.H., NSBA and the California School Boards Association encourage the U.S. Supreme Court to hear these cases, contending that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit misapplied the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), rather than correctly applying IDEA, to a case involving a California student with a hearing impairment.

Ideally, an updated definition will lead to greater scrutiny of actual quality of services, rather than just compliance, and school districts fully embracing inclusion to ensure that students with disabilities have access to the general education curriculum.

Rather than using worksheets that can turn students with disabilities off (demanding the use of fine motor skills), try art projects and games to introduce word families.

Rather than sending those education dollars and their child to the local public school, moms and dads of kids with disabilities would have been able to use their scholarships to create a custom - made education plan for their son or daughter, paying for the specific services and programs that work for their unique child.

It would be nice to offer a program to special education students where the students that really want to learn in a disciplined learning environment rather than being put in a classroom with up t 17 students with disabilities from behaviors to ID MILD and trying to meet the needs o all the students while primarily responding to behaviors of students who are apathetic and do not want to be taught.

Under MAEP, special education is funded through teacher units rather than the number of students or the severity of their disabilities.

The foundation of the Extended Standards provides a framework for instruction of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities and to assist school districts, schools, and communities in developing and strengthening curriculum, rather than prescribing courses, materials, or instructional methodology.

A fundamental shift in how a disability is identified, making diagnostic decisions only after intervention rather than simply because a student's achievement test score is lower than the score on an intelligence test would predict