This article describes an occupational therapy educational program's experience with service-learning courses that has fostered student learning about service to the community and disability as a multidimensional construct. Faculty-reflective perspectives about disability and ways to enhance learning about disability as a human experience are presented as an important consideration for health c...

The sterilisation of people with learning disabilities was a procedure that took place with disturbing frequency during the first four decades of the 20th century (Park and Radford, 1998). This was largely associated with the Eugenics movement, in the mistaken belief that eliminating the opportunities of people with learning disabilities to reproduce would eliminate the incidence of learning di...

The disproportionate identification of learning disabilities among certain sociodemographic subgroups, typically groups that are already disadvantaged, is perceived as a persistent problem within the education system. The academic and social experiences of students who are misidentified with a learning disability may be severely restricted, whereas students with a learning disability who are ne...