Using the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 to Empower University Students With Disabilities

The purpose of this study was to gather data about university students' familiarity with the civil rights laws pertaining to people with disabilities: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. A majority of nondisabled students and students with disabilities reported that they had little, very little, or no knowledge at all of civil rights laws pertaining to people with disabilities. In addition, a significant difference was found between the number of university students with disabilities and students without disabilities requesting accommodations from employers. Furthermore, less than 30% of the university students with disabilities in this study requested a workplace accommodation. Given the results of this research, it is recommended that university students with disabilities receive greater exposure to civil rights laws pertaining to people with disabilities.

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Effects of Inferiority feeling, and College Life Maladjustment of university students with disabilities on Social Anxiety

JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION & REHABILITATION SCIENCE ◽

10.15870/jsers.2014.12.53.4.121 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

pp. 121

Author(s):

Min Woo Yun

Keyword(s):

Social Anxiety ◽

University Students ◽

Students With Disabilities ◽

College Life ◽

Inferiority Feeling

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Resilience and Support Networks for University Students with Disabilities

International Research Journal of Management IT and Social Sciences ◽

10.21744/irjmis.v5i2.634 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 164

Author(s):

María Leonila García Cedeño ◽

Anicia Katherine Tarazona Meza ◽

Robert Gonzalo Cedeño Mejía

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

University Students ◽

Students With Disabilities ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Support Networks ◽

Pearson Correlation Coefficient ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Disabled Students ◽

The Social ◽

Student Resilience

Resilience is a phenomenon that can be studied in catastrophic situations but also in everyday matters such as disability, this being an alternative way of working in the environment that requires the adaptation of the social networks that contain and support people with this condition. The research was conducted at the Technical University of Manabí applied to the population of students with disabilities. The paper presents an analysis of support networks and their relationship with student resilience. The results related to the application of the Saavedra-Villalta test are shown, which allowed to correlate the level of resilience of the sample studied with the support networks. An analysis linked to the interpretation of the Pearson correlation coefficient is presented. The result obtained is presented by applying semi-structured interviews to a sample of 48 disabled students.

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Resilience of Parents of Young University Students with Disabilities

International Research Journal of Management IT and Social Sciences ◽

10.21744/irjmis.v5i2.629 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 137

Author(s):

Eleticia Isabel Pinargote Macías ◽

Francisco Ashley Gavilanes Vaca ◽

Víctor Hugo Cedeño Gavilánez

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Students With Disabilities ◽

Representative Sample ◽

Conceptual Analysis ◽

Decisive Role ◽

Young Person ◽

Resilience Scale ◽

The Family ◽

Development Of Students ◽

Family Dimension

The resilience of parents can play a decisive role as a resource that favors the inclusion and development of students with disabilities, representing a decisive contribution in school-family co-responsibility. This work showed a conceptual analysis related to resilience from a family dimension and especially the role played by parents. The research was carried out in the context of the Technical University of Manabí, a representative sample of students with disabilities and their families was selected, two instruments were applied to obtain the data: Family Functioning Scale [1] and the Mother Resilience Scale [2]. The attention to the young person with a disability was analyzed, and it is particularized in the related to the family of these. The results are shown in tables that allow the final results to be identified.

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