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Sensory Processes

Vision: The Visual System, the Eye, and Color VisionIn the human visual system, the eye receives physical stimuli in the form of light and sends those stimuli as electrical signals to the brain, which interprets the signals as images. LEARNING OBJECTIVESSummarize the process by which visual information is communicated to the brain KEY TAKEAWAYSKey PointsHuman...

Cognitive Approaches to Learning

Cognitive Approaches to Learning Latent LearningLatent learning occurs without any obvious conditioning or reinforcement of a behavior, illustrating a cognitive component to learning. LEARNING OBJECTIVESDiscuss latent learning in humans KEY TAKEAWAYSKey PointsPrior to the theory of latent learning, behaviorists believed that learning could only occur through conditioning —associating a stimulus with a specific response. Latent...

What is special education?

Special education is tailored to meet the needs of students with disabilities. The services and supports one child receives may be very different from what another child receives. It’s all about individualization. What’s important is giving kids the resources they need to make progress in school. What is special education? What do you imagine when...

Speech and language development for preschoolers

Ages 3-5 years *Content supplied by raisingchildren.net.au. Speech is the ability to produce the sounds that form words. Language is the words that your child understands and uses as well as how they uses them. Stages of speech and language development In their fourth year, your child might: begin to use more complex sentences that include words...

The impact of Disability Studies curriculum on education professionals’ perspectives and practice: Implications for education, social justice, and social change

Holly Pearson, Ph.D.Chapman UniversityEmail: pears122@mail.chapman.eduMeghan Cosier, Ph.D.Joanne J. Kim, Ph.D.Audri M. Gomez, Ph.DCarol Hines, Ph.D.Aja A. McKee, Ph.D.Litzy Z. Ruiz, M.A. Keywords: Disability Studies, Higher Education, Doctoral Education, TransformationAbstract As a field, Disability Studies has gained ground in the past few decades by highlighting alternative ways of thinking about disability as a social, cultural, and political...

Disability, the arts and the curriculum: Is there common

Abstract This paper reports on the findings of a study that sought to examine firstly, the themes expressed in the art of disabled people in Greece and Cyprus and in interviews with these artists, and secondly, the ways that such art can serve the school curriculum. To this end, an electronic archive of the life...
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