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Roy Hanes, Nancy Werk
Pág. 86 - 108
This article examines the education of children and youth with disabilities in Canada by incorporating an analysis of the Participatory Activities Limitations Survey (PALS) 2006. The primary intent of the article is to show what is potentially being lost...
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Roy Hanes, Nancy Werk
Pág. 86 - 108
This article examines the education of children and youth with disabilities in Canada by incorporating an analysis of the Participatory Activities Limitations Survey (PALS) 2006. The primary intent of the article is to show what is potentially being lost...
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Harlida Abdul Wahab,Zainal Amin Ayub
Pág. 313 - 319
People with disabilities (PWD) remain neglected in many areas including employment. Their unemployment rate is significantly high when compared with those without disabilities. Severe unemployment and poor wages ended majority of them live in poverty. PW...
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Antonio Frian,Fransiska Mulyani,Hansi Joachim,Dellia Anggreni,Willy Yanto Effendi
Pág. 93 - 107
Equality in an employment opportunity or commonly known Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) is still not entirely applicable to a person with disabilities. World Report on Disability record 15,3 percent of the world population is the person with disabilit...
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Zhanna Nikolaevna Khaliman,Galina V. Alexeeva,Irina V. Zrutina,Xenia V. Goltsova,Tran Duy Thi
Pág. 202 - 207
The article looks at the issues of integration of people with disabilities into a contemporary Russian society by means of utilization of their labor potential in the production of items of folk art with consideration of experience of this kind of activi...
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Muneo Kaigo and Sae Okura
In this paper we examine the recent situation of advocacy through game accessibility of video games for people with physical disabilities and its challenges in Japan. We conducted an email survey among the dominant gaming companies in Japan. We discovere...
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Seula Park, Kiyun Yu and Jiyoung Kim
The increasing complexity of modern buildings has challenged the mobility of people with disabilities (PWD) in the indoor environment. To help overcome this problem, this paper proposes a data model that can be easily applied to indoor spatial informatio...
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Clarke Wilson, Mary Ann McColl
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As Canada moves toward the passage of a federal statute assuring access and inclusion for disabled persons, inevitable comparisons arise between the statutory environments for people with disabilities in Canada and the USA. In previous research, we...
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Kate Caldwell, Sarah Parker Harris, Maija Renko
Pág. 211 - 244
The current economic climate demands more innovative approaches to increasing labor market participation for people with disabilities. Social entrepreneurship offers one alternative pathway to employment. However, little is known about the motivational a...
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Gregor Wolbring, Verlyn Leopatra
Pág. 66 - 90
The problems associated with climate change, energy scarcity, water and sanitation insecurity and severe natural disasters are at the forefront of both national and international policy agendas. Increasingly, people with disabilities are those most criti...
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Nancy A. Maier, Gregory W. Ulferts, Terry L. Howard
This paper presents findings from research conducted to identify organizational hiring practices of people with disabilities. Despite the passage of the American with Disabilities Act in 1990, employment rates for people with disabilities remain far lowe...
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Thao-Trang Huynh-Cam, Long-Sheng Chen and Khai-Vinh Huynh
The learning performance of international students and students with disabilities has increasingly attracted many theoretical and practical researchers. However, previous studies used questionnaires, surveys, and/or interviews to investigate factors affe...
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Joana Alves, Pedro Teixeira, Celeste Eusébio and Leonor Teixeira
Tourism information systems are becoming crucial tools to ensure access to tourism for all people, especially for those with special needs. The aim of this paper is to propose an innovative web platform to increase knowledge transfer among all stakeholde...
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Ali Afghantoloee, Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi, Geoffrey Edwards and Amin Gharebaghi
A mental map refers to the personalized representation of spatial knowledge in the human brain and is based on the perceptions, experiences, and interactions of people with their environment. For people with motor disabilities (PWMD) some perceptions and...
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Antonio J. Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Anabel Alcívar and Mauricio Herrera-López
Two important challenges in research on bullying are to have reliable tools to measure traditional bullying and discriminatory bullying related to special educational needs (SEN), and to learn more about their prevalence. We present the validations of tw...
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Laura Sokal, Alina Wilson
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Extended testing time accommodation (ETTA) is the most common accommodation assigned to post-secondary students with disabilities. We examined data on the processes of providing and monitoring the use of ETTA at 48 Canadian post-secondary institutions wh...
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Mario Levesque
Pág. 73 - 106
This exploratory study examines the electoral experience of persons with disabilities with a particular focus on those that have sought provincial political office in Canada for the last three provincial elections in every province. It also gauges the ac...
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Mary Ann McColl, Rebecca Bond, David W. Shannon, Charles Shortt
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The inclusion of people with disabilities as a designated group for rights protection in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was viewed as a triumph of disability advocacy in Canada. And yet, a number of commentators look back with disappointment...
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Elizabeth Marquis, Ann Fudge Schormans, Bonny Jung, Christina Vietinghoff, Rob Wilton, Sue Baptiste
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This article presents the results of research examining the impact of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) on educational accessibility at one university in Ontario, Canada. A longitudinal, qualitative study was conducted to explo...
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Eric Badu, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Maxwell Peprah Opoku
Pág. 131 - 151
Health care is a human right yet access barriers to health care remain one of the major challenges among people with disabilities. One of the several reasons accounting for this is that there is little evidence on access barriers to healthcare among peop...
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