scholarly journals Analysis of Attributes in the Official Definitions for Learning Disability

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Venkatesan
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Condition Method ◽  
The World ◽  
Official Definitions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Conceptual Meaning ◽  
Agreed Definition

Background: The phenomenon of learning disability is increasingly occupying the centre stage all over the world. Still, there is no commonly agreed definition for the condition. Method: This study attempts a comparative analysis of the similarities or differences between 23 official definitions of learning disability derived from various sources. By using a quantitative-cum-qualitative systematic procedure of identification and listing the attributes, prioritizing and rank ordering them, assigning of appropriate weights before deducing their conceptual meaning, observations on the nomenclature and content characteristics of the definitions were created as basic data units to be undertaken in this analysis. Results: There is plurality of definitions amidst varying emphasis on nature or content of especially seven majorly identified attributes with little agreement on what qualities characterize the condition of learning disability. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of the need for quantifying or establishing the empirical veracity of the identified attributes before explicating a cohesive or meaningful overall re-statement on definition of learning disabilities.  The need for cross cultural and transnational research is highlighted.

scholarly journals Picturing destruction at home and abroad: a comparative visual analysis of icons and news values during disaster

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110081
Author(s):  
TJ Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
News Values ◽  
Cultural Understanding ◽  
International Media ◽  
The World ◽  
News Photographs ◽  
Visual Expression ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Human Actors

This study uses news photographs and interviews with journalists to explore how Australia’s unprecedented 2019–2020 bushfire season was depicted for Australian and non-Australian audiences in order to extend transnational understanding of iconicity’s tenets and how news values vary across contexts. It does so first by examining the Sydney Morning Herald’s coverage over 3 months and then by contrasting this with international coverage that began in early 2020 once the issue spilled onto the world stage. Australia’s coverage focused intensely on human actors involved in the disaster while the vast numbers of affected animals were virtually absent. In contrast, international media visually depicted the disaster as an environmental and ecological issue with global consequences. The results suggest a need for a definition of iconicity that is inclusive to non-human actors and to inanimate forces that are personified. It also extends our cross-cultural understanding of the visual expression of news values.

Palliative and end-of-life care for people with learning disabilities

2019 ◽  
pp. 777-784
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Early Onset ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Life Care ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk

This chapter highlights some of the issues and challenges which exist in the provision of palliative and end-of-life care for people with learning disabilities and how some of these can be addressed. The challenges fall into four key areas: assessment, communication, consent, and bereavement. The reader is also signposted to websites and resources which are helpful in caring for people with learning disability at the end of their life. Concerns exist around choice and the quality of end-of-life care that people with learning disabilities may be offered. A number of different terms have evolved over the years for ‘learning disability’. Currently this term is used in the UK, but in Europe and in other parts of the world, the term ‘intellectual disability’ is used. Internationally there is a consensus that a learning disability can be identified when the following criteria are present: intellectual impairment (known as reduced IQ), social or adaptive dysfunction combined with reduced IQ, and early onset. It is thought that around 2.5% of the population in the UK has a learning disability, but it has also been predicted that this may increase by 1% per year over the next number of years.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of the usage of concept "hospitality" in the phraseological units of English, Russian and Uzbek languages on the basis of the English translation of the novel “Silence” by S.Ahmad

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1640-1648
Author(s):  
Kholmuradova Leyla Eshkuvvatovna ◽  
Maya Sultanova Tuychievna ◽  
Sharofova Diyora Furkatovna ◽  
Mamarizaeva Farangiz Zohidjon Qizi
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Life Events ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Lexical Unit ◽  
Creative Personality ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Process

At present, in connection with globalization, the language is especially interested in cross-cultural understanding. Today, the interest in the study of original and translations of the text "Silence" in the world literary process is attracting the attention of orientalists and translators around the world. The scientific study of the content and phrase logical aspects of the novel "Silence" by world scholars, such as the creative personality, the writer's creative method, artistic skills, allows to identify and evaluate the features of the development of literature. According to structure of phrases, a phrase is a lexical unit that is equivalent to a sentence, semantically whole, has a generalized meaning, is not created in the speech process, but is ready to be introduced into the speech. According to the linguist Mamatov, phrases are a separate unit of language, which, according to their structure, is a free connection or equivalent to a sentence, fully or partially semantically reconstructed figurative, stable phrases. Phrases are specific figurative expressions of people's conclusions based on observation of life events, assessment of acceptable and unacceptable actions in society, generalization of life experiences. Writers are often not content to select and use phrases appropriate to the purpose of the image.

Comparing Math LD Diagnostic Rates Obtained Using LDAC and DSM-5 Criteria: Implications for the Field

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-196
Author(s):  
Meadow Schroeder ◽  
Michelle A. Drefs ◽  
Michael Zwiers
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Math Learning ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Learning Disability Identification ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Disability Identification

Within the Canadian context, the two major learning disability classification systems are arguably the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the Learning Disabilities Association (LDAC) of Canada’s Official Definition of Learning Disabilities. Several of the more recent changes to the fifth edition of the DSM contrast with the LDAC definition, which establishes them as competing diagnostic frameworks. We investigated the frequency of math learning disability identification when both the LDAC and DSM-5 criteria were modelled and applied to an archived data set (2011–2016). Results support generally similar percentages of math learning disability cases identified when employing LDAC or DSM-5 criteria; however, the two methods identified a different set of cases. Implications for using DSM-5 versus LDAC criteria in diagnosing learning disabilities are discussed, including the need to consider adopting a national diagnostic standard.

scholarly journals Automatic comparison of global children’s and adult songs supports a sensorimotor hypothesis for the origin of musical scales

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoichiro Sato ◽  
Joren Six ◽  
Peter Pfordresher ◽  
Shinya Fujii ◽  
Patrick E. Savage
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Developmental Stage ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Scale Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small Integer ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Children's Songs ◽  
The World ◽  
Musical Scales

Music throughout the world varies greatly, yet some musical features like scale structure display striking cross-cultural similarities. Are there musical laws or biological constraints that underlie this diversity? The “vocal mistuning” hypothesis proposes that cross-cultural regularities in musical scales arise from imprecision in vocal tuning, while the integer-ratio hypothesis proposes that they arise from perceptual principles based on psychoacoustic consonance. In order to test these hypotheses, we conducted automatic comparative analysis of 100 children’s and adult songs from throughout the world. We found that children’s songs tend to have narrower melodic range, fewer scale degrees, and less precise intonation than adult songs, consistent with motor limitations due to their earlier developmental stage. On the other hand, adult and children’s songs share some common tuning intervals at small-integer ratios, particularly the perfect 5th (~3:2 ratio). These results suggest that some widespread aspects of musical scales may be caused by motor constraints, but also suggest that perceptual preferences for simple integer ratios might contribute to cross-cultural regularities in scale structure. We propose a “sensorimotor hypothesis” to unify these competing theories.

Looking Backward to Look Forward: Reflections of Past Presidents of the Council for Learning Disabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 224-228
Author(s):  
Apryl L. Poch
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of

Anniversaries offer a time for reflection, celebration, validation, and sometimes, simply a candid conversation on the current state of a field. In the field of learning disabilities, anniversaries offer a time to consider how far the field has come and just how far is left to go to understand what a learning disability is. Definitional understanding is foundational for moving forward. This column presents findings from a series of short conversations with past presidents of the Council for Learning Disabilities, individuals who are also leading experts in the field of learning disabilities. Results suggest four different thoughts about the definition of learning disabilities, two main themes regarding areas in which the field needs to focus, and two themes specific to where the field may be headed in the next 20 to 25 years. The column concludes with a discussion of implications for the future.

“We’ve Always Done It Like This …Except for a Few Details”: “Tradition” and “Innovation” in Okiek Ceremonies

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinne A. Kratz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Temporal Continuity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Cultural Concept

How does any practice become canonized as tradition? What counts as tradition and what does not and to whom? What temporal continuity is required and how is it defined? This essay is about African initiation ceremonies, in particular the practices of the Okiek people in Kenya. Considering the many papers spawned by Hobsbawm and Ranger's book on the “invention of tradition” (1983), it may not be surprising that Okiek also construct their ceremonies as traditional. Despite the attention devoted to the topic, few essays evaluate their own definition of tradition or consider the concept critically and comparatively. An unexamined premise thus incorporated into them takes one of two forms: either the notion of tradition is more or less the same throughout the world, and cross-cultural differences are of no consequence; or some societies (traditional ones) do not have notions of tradition. This essay argues that tradition itself must be explored as an indigenous cultural concept which shapes and is shaped by different perspectives and processes, as shown by the ways Okiek endow their images of tradition on ceremonies to spin their notions of history and identity.

Amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983: implications for people with learning disabilities

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Ian Hall ◽  
Afia Ali
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Health Practitioner ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Mental Health Practitioner ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Definition Of

The new Mental Health Act 2007 substantially amends the Mental Health Act 1983. In this article, some of the most important changes are highlighted, including changes to the definition of mental disorder, the new professional roles of approved mental health practitioner and responsible clinician, and the new powers for Supervised Community Treatment. The likely impact of these changes for people with learning disability and professionals working with them is discussed.

Estética e Paisagem - Algumas Referências Legais

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Ângela Delfino ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
The World ◽  
Antarctic Treaty ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Agreed Definition

This paper analyses the legal treatment of the concepts of “aesthetics” and “landscape” in the areas of Zoning, Planning and Environmental Law, both in domestic and public international law. References are made to the World Charter for Nature, Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty on Environmental Protection, European Landscape Convention and several Portuguese Statutes. In the absence of a common agreed definition of the terms, several proposals of interpretation are provided and discussed taking into account the relevant values of law, i.e. justice and certainty.

scholarly journals Comparative analyses of Kyrgyz, Turkish, Russian phraseological units

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-148
Author(s):  
Ch. T. Sydykova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
General Opinion ◽  
Culture And Language

The research is conducted on the material of phraseological expressions of communicative nature - proverbs and sayings of Kyrgyz, Turkish and Russian languages, which will be subjected to comparative analysis in order to identify similarities and differences in the perception of the world, the definition of national character, national and cultural values of these ethnic groups. Proverbs and sayings are extremely brief, they do not give a detailed image of life. But only one statement or phrase built n well-aimed figurative forms, expresses a general opinion about this or that phenomenon of life. Comparative analysis of phraseological units in different languages revealed similarities and differences in the perception of the world by their representatives: Kyrgyz, Turks and Russians. The number and quality of phraseological expressions, reflecting a positive or negative assessment of the concepts presented for analysis, can be considered as an indicator of accepted in society ethical norms of behavior, the rules of social life, the attitude of the ethnic group through its culture and language to the world.

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