920 search results for “intellectual disabilities” in the Public website
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School non-attendance in students with intellectual disability
Are the types of school non-attendance which have been evidenced in typically developing youth also found among children and adolescents with an intellectual disability (ID)? If so, which types are most prevalent and thus in greatest need of attention, and what factors (child, family, school/environmental)…
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Responding to pupils with mild intellectual disability in education
Mariëtte Huizinga, Dorien Graas and Anika Bexkens call attention to learning problems of children with mild intellectual disability in the classroom. Their new book aims to make it easier for teachers to respond to the specific educational needs of these children.
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Facing your fears together
Peer-mentored cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents with mild intellectual disability and anxiety disorder
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Academy for Self-Management: from disabilities to abilities
If people with intellectual disabilities are given tailored training, this promotes self-management in their daily lives. They also need less support. These are the research findings of neuropsychologist Janice Sandjojo. PhD defence on 9 April.
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Anika Bexkens
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Mild intellectual disability: an entity?
PhD Defence
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Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective
How did disability become a global concern? In this project we will identify the contribution of international agencies, governmental and non-governmental organizations and, just as importantly, disabled people themselves, to the IYDP and by showing the connections, interactions and entanglements between…
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Intellectual Property Law
The IP Law (Intellectual Property Law) department provides education and conducts research in the field of intellectual property law.
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Intellectual property and unfair competition
Intellectual property (IP) is the most valuable asset of many businesses. Conflicts about intellectual property and trade secrets happen between businesses of all sizes and can also be considered as part of the broader field of unfair competition law. That field can also be subdivided in in unfair competition…
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Indigenous cultural heritage and intellectual property
Challenges for the protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources, traditional cultural expressions, and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples in the international scenario.
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The Right to Travel by Air of Persons with Disabilities
On Thursday 16 November 2017, Lalin Kovudhikulrungsri defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘The Right to Travel by Air of Persons with Disabilities’. The supervisors are Professor P.M.J. Mendes de Leon and Professor A.C. Hendriks.
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in planning and evaluating instruction for students with learning disabilities
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Education
The group is involved in training in areas of diagnostic skills, treatment/prevention/intervention, neuropsychological assessment, behavioral observations, clinical interviewing, psychoeducation for parents and teachers, knowledge of intellectual disability, autism, ADHD, psychosis, aggression, as well…
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Turning disabilities into abilities. Promoting self-management in people with intellectual disabilities
PhD Defence
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Studying with a disability
Around ten per cent of students have some form of functional disability, varying from ADHD or dyslexia to a physical handicap. Under a UN treaty, the Netherlands is obliged to provide better facilities for these students. What does Leiden University do for this group? Watch the video on Studying with…
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Post-everything: An intellectual history of post-concepts
What does it mean to live in an era of ‘posts’? At a time when ‘post-truth’ is on everyone’s lips, this volume seeks to uncover the logic of post-constructions – postmodernism, post-secularism, postfeminism, post-colonialism, post-capitalism, post-structuralism, post-humanism, post-tradition, post-Christian,…
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Leiden Disability Studies Lunch
On 13 June the first Leiden Disability Studies Lunch was organized upon the initiative of the ERC Rethinking Disability team, based in the Institute for History. Its aim was to allow students and staff members from across various institutes of the Faculty of Humanites and also from other faculties to…
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Working with a disability
What will the future be like? This is something that every student wonders about as graduation approaches. What will I do? How can I find a good job? And even more importantly: How do I land that job once I have found it? If a student has a disability, additional questions may also arise. A symposium…
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Social Anxiety and School Refusal
When and how does social anxiety develop? How can it go astray in some adolescents? How can we help troubled young people to attend school regularly and return to a normal developmental pathway?
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People and Projects
Our team consists of the following members.
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Comic strip on rethinking disability
Approximately 10-15% of the world’s population is estimated to be disabled. The researchers from the ERC Rethinking Disability project have shown how disability campaigners managed to place disability on the human rights agenda. Their research has now been converted into a comic strip.
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About us
Meet the people of the Centre for Learning and Literacy across Media
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Rethinking Disability through visual storytelling
The ERC project Rethinking Disability has been selected to participate in the ERCcOMICS scheme which exploits the power of visual storytelling to innovate the way in which European science is communicated.
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There is no doubt. Muslim scholarship and society in 17th-century Central Sudanic Africa
Combining approaches from intellectual history, philology and the study of Arabic manuscripts, this study places the Bornu scholar Muḥammad al-Wālī within his intellectual environment on the one hand, and it portrays him as someone who responded to the concerns of ordinary Muslims around him on the…
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Introducing: PhD candidates ERC project 'Rethinking Disability'
Three PhD candidates have recently started working in the ERC project 'the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective', which is led by Dr. Monika Baar.
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Additional support for students with a disability
How do I get into this hard-to-reach classroom with my wheelchair? How do I learn to divide my time better over the courses I’m taking? Can I take an exam on my laptop? These are all questions with which students have approached Jaap de Witte. For several years now, he has been a study adviser for students…
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Paul van Trigt
Faculty of Humanities
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NWO KIEM Grant for the Digital Disability Archive
Paul van Trigt (LUIH) in collaboration with Paul Bijl (KITLV) and Manon Parry (UvA) received a NWO Creative Industry – KIEM Grant for the research project ‘Digital Disability Archive’ (1 September 2017 – 31 August 2018).
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The Right to Travel by Air of Persons with Disabilities
On Thursday 16 November 2017, Lalin Kovudhikulrungsri will defend her doctoral thesis entitled ‘The Right to Travel by Air of Persons with Disabilities’. The defence will commence at 11.15 hrs at the Academy Building of Leiden University, Rapenburg 73. The supervisors are Professor P.M.J. Mendes de…
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Alexander Odle
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maja Vodopivec
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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This is what it's like studying with a disability
More than a hundred people took part in the conference on Studying with a Disability on 20 April. Dozens of students shared their experiences. 'I would rather you ask me the same question a hundred times than that you decide on my behalf.'
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Studying with a disability: 'Accessibility alone is not enough'
How can we make studying easier for students with a functional disability? This will be the key question during a public conference on 20 April. Romke Biagioni (Fenestra) explains why there is such a need for this conference. Are you going to be there?
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Human nature and governance: soulcraft and statecraft in eleventh century China
On the 2nd of September Jiyan Qiao successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Raoul Soullié
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Charlotte Vrendenbarg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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‘The Netherlands should be much more accessible for people with disabilities’
Jiska Ogier studied notarial law, which wasn’t always easy because she went to lectures in a wheelchair. As a student she pushed to make society accessible. And with her law degree and lived experience she has now made this her work. ‘You can achieve a lot with creative solutions.’
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Pierre Koning
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Identities. Historicizing the identity formation of persons with disabilities across the globe
On 21 and 22 March 2019 the workshop 'Criptic Identities. Historicizing the identity formation of persons with disabilities across the globe' takes place at the Leiden Institute for History.
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Anna Derksen
Faculty of Humanities
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important for people to know that there are also academics with a disability
We hardly ever seen people with a disability appearing on talk shows and other media channels. The Dutch Minister for Disability Issues, Rick Brink, decided that this needs to change and drew up a list of 70 experts who have a disability and who deserve more attention.
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Monika Baar
Faculty of Humanities
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Rethinking Disability Webcomics in the Fȇte de La Science at Sorbonne University
The ERC-funded project Rethinking Disability was featured in the Fȇte de La Science which was held on 11 October 2019 at Sorbonne University in Paris.
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How did disability become a global concern?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
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Larissa Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Development of a academic monitoring system for students with learning problems in secondary school
Students with learning problems experience difficulties in reading, writing, and content-area learning into and throughout their secondary-school years
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‘I want to do meaningful, intellectually stimulating work’
‘To be honest, I knew very little about the Netherlands when I arrived in 1998. But studying law in Leiden was a very enriching experience.’ Nathalie van den Berge grew up in a number of different European countries, and now works at a UN office in Tanzania, where she lives with her Dutch husband and…