Intellectual Disability
Essays

This paper is a case study of a hypothetical student with a learning disability. The case study discusses the discrepancy between how the child should ideally be treated, according to the dictates of his IEP, versus how the treatment is executed in practice. The paper concludes with a discussion of the ideological debate about mainstreaming students with special needs.

This paper will look into the subject matter of disability by examining a mental illness' mass media representation, i.e., Intellectual Disability in the movie, The Other Sister that is a 1999 romantic comedy movie.

This paper provides a review of the State of Florida Department of Education's Web site together with peer-reviewed and scholarly resources to define intellectual disabilities and speech impairments, the possible causes of these disorders, current treatments that are used and accommodations made for classroom teachers. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.