Browsing by Subject "disability"
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COVID-19 related experiences among college students with and without disabilities: Psychosocial impacts, supports, and virtual learning environments
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021-12-10)This cross-sectional analysis estimated differences, based on disability status, in college students' (n = 777) experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were modeled using t-tests and logistic regression. Most ... -
Disabled Body in Toni Morrisons Novel Sula
(Oklahoma State University, 2010-12-01)This thesis identifies similarities between body imagery and in Toni Morrison's 1973 novel Sula and in selected disability literary and theoretical texts. The purpose of this comparison is to determine whether the alternative ... -
Gender identity, disability, and unmet healthcare needs among disabled people living in the community in the United States
(MDPI, 2022-03-01)Disabled adults and transgender people in the United States face multiple compounding and marginalizing forces that result in unmet healthcare needs. Yet, gender identity among disabled people has not been explored, ... -
Impact Of Labels On Peer Perceptions Of Prognostic Outlook
(Oklahoma State University, 2009-12-01)The purpose of this study was to assess participants' social acceptance and prognostic outlook toward peers who have autistic disorder, learning disorder, or no disabilities and to explore the possibility that gender ... -
Investigation in sociodemographic factors associated with caregiver strain
(Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, 2023-02-17)Background: Caregiver distress is the strain experienced by individuals providing care for people with chronic physical or mental health conditions which limit their self-sufficiency for tasks of daily living. More than 1 ... -
Narrative triage: Veterans, disability, race, and the popular fiction of the Cold War
(2022-07)This dissertation argues that there are a series of disability narratives embedded James Jones, Norman Mailer, and John Oliver Killens’ novels that undermine the cultural myths revolving around soldiers’ bodies. Following ... -
NOW WHAT? Impact of a Self-Advocacy Strategy on Middle School Students with Disabilities
(2020-05-08)Students with disabilities do not develop self-advocacy skills on their own; however, instruction in these skills is often lacking in special education programs. This lack of self-advocacy skills negatively impacts the ... -
Sylvia Plaths the Bell Jar as Disability Narrative
(Oklahoma State University, 2009-12-01)The purpose of this study was to explore the implications of disability theory for Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, a novel which has traditionally been read from a feminist perspective. Drawing on the work of many scholars ... -
Teaching Students to Attain Annual Transition Goals Using the Take Action Goal Attainment Lessons
(Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2014-08-01)This study used the Take Action goal attainment lesson package and assistive technology to teach nine high school students with mild to moderate disabilities to attain annual transition goals. The Take Action lessons ... -
Turning disability into a dream: A narrative inquiry of one mother’s endurance
(2022-12)Research has indicated that, as of 2017, 18.7 percent of individuals who had a disability held employment, as opposed to 65.7 percent without a disability (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018). Despite the passage of the ... -
Understanding Experiences of Undergraduate Students with Physical Disabilities
(2018-05)This transcendental, phenomenological study focused on the lived experiences of undergraduate students with physical disabilities and their decision (or not) to become engaged in out-of-class activities. Schlossberg’s ...