Dimitris Anastasiou

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• Ph.D.
• Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

The rhetoric of the social model of disability is presented, and its basic claims are critiqued. Proponents of the social model use the distinction between impairment and disability to reduce disabilities to a single social dimension—social oppression. They downplay the role of biological and mental conditions in the lives of disabled people. Conse...

1. Introduction and Background 2. Travaux Préparatoires 3. Paragraph 1 (Chapeau): The Right of Persons with Disabilities to Education 4. Paragraph 2 4.1 Paragraph 2(a): Non- Exclusion 4.2 Paragraph 2(b) 4.2.1 Access to an Inclusive, Quality, and Free Primary Education and Secondary Education on an Equal Basis 4.2.2 On an Equal Basis with Others in...

The purpose of this paper is to define and describe the ‘Telos’ or purpose of special education. We argue that special education has three main (tripartite) functions: (a) research, (b) a distinct system, and (c) special instruction. The overall Telos of special education is to provide an educational service to better serve students whose disabilit...

The field of specific learning disabilities (SLDs) has faced three kinds of challenges. Constitutional challenges arise from classification and definitional complexities, identification issues, comorbidity, and ontological debates. Internal challenges include the inherent difficulties of scientific thinking that compete with intuitionism and confir...

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of concept maps on science achievement among elementary and secondary education students, including low-achieving students. A systematic search located 55 studies about concept mapping in science achievement published in peer-reviewed journals and dissertations between 1980 and 2020. We extracted 58 ind...

We explain how and why the continuum of alternative placements required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act promotes the educational inclusion of students with disabilities.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an instructional framework to improve learning outcomes in the general education curriculum. A critical analysis of its theoretical foundation and underlying assumptions is essential to understand its potential usefulness and limitations. Our analysis identifies seven issues that challenge key assumptions of t...

This paper critically examines the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, analyzing its theoretical foundations and questioning its universal applicability. We identify seven key challenges that raise concerns about UDL’s assumptions, particularly regarding cognitive load and technology integration. Our analysis offers insights into the lim...

The field of specific learning disabilities (SLDs) has faced three kinds of challenges. Constitutional challenges arise from classification and definitional complexities, identification issues, comorbidity, and ontological debates. Internal challenges include the inherent difficulties of scientific thinking that compete with intuitionism and confir...

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of concept maps on science achievement among elementary and secondary education students, including low-achieving students. A systematic search located 55 studies about concept mapping in science achievement published in peer-reviewed journals and dissertations between 1980 and 2020. We extracted 58 ind...

General labels tend to obscure objective realities upon which disability rights are based and can deny individuals with disabilities their educational and civil rights. Undoubtedly, stigma can come from labels unnecessarily categorizing people into separate groups. However, stigma does not reside primarily in disability categories/terms but in what...

The full inclusion movement (FIM) has unintended consequences for children with disabilities when the meaning of inclusion primarily focuses on place, not appropriateness of instruction. The roots of the FIM are long, and it is now a world-wide phenomenon emphasizing place of instruction rather than appropriateness and effectiveness of instruction....

People with disabilities have often been discriminated against in higher education; however, many institutions of higher education find ways of providing access to higher education for those with most forms of disabilities. Progress has been made in providing such access but undoubtedly there is still a need for more disability awareness, anti-stig...

“Reimagination” is required to create a new vision of education that better serves individuals with disabilities. Imagination is a way of conceiving possibilities and probabilities. The future of special education is imagined within the limits of possibility and probability of “appropriate” education for children with special educational needs and...

Debate of issues having to do with special and inclusive education and disability studies is perhaps better characterized as controversies. These controversies involve diverging approaches to disabilities, including the implications of disabilities in education and various closely related issues. Controversy also is found in the meaning of inclusio...

“Neurodiversity” is a term now frequently used to indicate the idea that disabilities, including a range of intellectual and developmental disabilities (e.g., autism spectrum disorder or ASD), are neurological variations among individuals that should be celebrated, not changed. Although it is true that diversity is within the natural continuum of h...

Rights of students are often misunderstood. Civil rights of minorities granted by the U.S. Supreme Court are confused with human rights of individuals with disabilities granted by the U.S. Congress. Federal law applying to education of individuals with disabilities requires that difficult decisions be made by families and schools regarding how to p...

We locate the right to education in general international human rights law, addressing how the right to education in its disability-specific context has been considered an expression and continuation of the general right to education as enshrined in international human rights treaties. To do so, we set out to examine the fundamental ingredients of...

Uncertainty in education, both general and special, has long troubled educational researchers, reformers, and practitioners. Responding to students with special (atypical) educational needs is an example of decisions that are prone to error. Although some efforts to reduce uncertainty in education are reasonable and helpful, efforts to eliminate un...

We, the authors, support inclusion in public education for most students of diversity, including many (but not all) students with disabilities, because disability is a unique form of diversity that requires special consideration in education. The way that various forms of disability are understood has fundamental implications for framing policies a...

This study examines how the social climate was associated with the psychological response during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a structural equation model linking the economic crisis to the social climate (pandemic fear, social and psychological distress, civil protection, and population’s response) and to the psychological respons...

Educators’ and Parents’ Perspectives on Inclusion of Students with Disabilities by James Kauffman, Bernd Ahrbeck, Dimitris Anastasiou, Jeanmarie Badar, Jean B. Crockett, Marion Felder, Daniel P. Hallahan, Garry Hornby, Joao Lopes, Paige C. Pullen and Carl R. Smith explores the views and attitudes of parents and educators toward inclusive education...

We explore how the research standards for hiring faculty in Saudi Arabia are compatible with effective practices in the field. Specifically, we examine the outcomes of recruiting practices for special education faculty in the United States, in addition to the worldwide production of special education research. A descriptive analysis was conducte...

تم خلال هذه الدراسة مقارنة مدى توافق المعايير المحلية المستخدمة في الجامعات السعودية المتعلقة بتعيين أعضاء هيئة التدريس مع الممارسات المستخدمة في دول متقدمة في المجال. وقد تم دراسة نتائج ممارسات التوظيف لأعضاء هيئة التدريس في افضل اقسام التربية الخاصة حسب تصنيف US NEWS في الولايات المتحدة الامريكية ، بالإضافة إلى دراسة الإنتاج العلمي لمجلات التربية...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of an explicit Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) approach that emphasised conceptual knowledge of fractions on low-achieving sixth-grade students. Participants were 34 sixth-grade students, of which 10 showed low achievement in fractions (LAF) and 24 exhibited typical achievement in fractio...

Social policies can be well-intentioned but ineffective in achieving what is intended. They can be undermined or destroyed by their exaggerated or oversimplified caricatures with a single, narrow focus. Caricatures may result in the opposite of the original intent of more carefully crafted variants. Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization a...

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the impact of Article 24 of the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on special and inclusive education in Germany, Portugal, Russia, and the Netherlands. The countries were selected because they are at a different stage regarding the implementation of Article 24. Thr...

Γενικά Ζητήματα: 1. Ειδική ή Εξιδεικευμένη Εκπαίδευση 2. Εκπαιδευτικά Περιβάλλοντα 3. Ερευνητικά Τεκμηριωμένες Πρακτικές (Evidence-based Practices) 4. To Τριεπίπεδο Μοντέλο Στήριξης στο σχέδιο νόμου 5. Η Τεχνολογία των CBMs 6. Ιστορικοί Σταθμοί προς Ενιαία (Ενταξιακή) Εκπαίδευση 7. Ανάλυση του Άρθρου 24 της Σύμβασης του ΟΗΕ 8. Τι Είναι η Εύλ...

We summarize the role of cultural politics in special education. We analyze the 2019 discourse of Whitford and Carrero, our respondents, about the role of ideology and models of disability. Our comments further explain how we see the relationship between theorizing and reality. We contrast the deficit thinking rhetoric with the Individuals With Dis...

Book chapter in press updated.

The present study investigates users' movement behavior in a virtual environment when they attempted to avoid a virtual character. At each iteration of the experiment, four conditions (Self-Avatar LookAt, No Self-Avatar LookAt, Self-Avatar No LookAt, and No Self-Avatar No LookAt) were applied to examine users' movement behavior based on kinematic m...

The present study investigates users' movement behavior in a virtual environment when they attempted to avoid a virtual character. At each iteration of the experiment, four conditions (Self-Avatar LookAt, No Self-Avatar LookAt, Self-Avatar No LookAt, and No Self-Avatar No LookAt) were applied to examine users' movement behavior based on kinematic m...

The opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Endrew case has implications for the education of all students with disabilities. Implications for several categories of disability are discussed: those with autism spectrum disorder and those with disabilities often considered high incidence, particularly those placed for a significant p...

This article examines the nature of cultural politics in special education, specifically conceptual and methodological issues, as well as political implications related to minority disproportionate representation in disability identification rates. The definition of cultural politics is a focus on the hypothesis that minority disproportionate repre...

We analyze Article 24 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and in general we examine the right to education in international human rights law drawing upon : - its general principles, - its drafting history, and - focus on a legal and policy analysis of the main provisions of Article 24 - related United Nations doc...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the...

This chapter examines Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which recognizes the right of persons with disabilities (PWD) to education and lifelong learning, specifying obligations of states parties that are necessary for realizing this right. Consistent with the CRPD as a whole and with othe...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the...

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the...

This study investigates the multivariate relationships among socioeconomic factors, special education coverage (SEC), and reading across countries participating in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Three socioeconomic factors were considered: (a) gross national income (GNI) per capita, (b) income inequality via the Gini index...

This chapter examines the role of science and politics in learning disabilities (LD) classification and identification, analyzing the overlap between the scientific explanation and the ideological function of legitimation in the Response to Intervention (RTI) time. Specifically, it focuses on four major issues in LD classification: (a) the categori...

Special education is losing its identity—its visibility, distinctiveness, budget, and basic functions are all at risk. Special education functions include (a) sorting, categorizing, and labeling students who need it; (b) making the right comparisons; (c) honoring diversity but changing particular differences; (d) managing stigma; (e) making subject...

In this chapter, we describe the many ways that the provision of education to children and youth with exceptionalities can vary cross-nationally and the challenges that this poses to conducting comparative special education research to describe and understand such differences in order to increase and improve special education. Typical approaches th...

In this chapter we describe the observed patterns of disproportionality and consider how and why the over-representation of minority students in special education settings has become a contentious political issue. We also investigate the state of the evidence concerning the underlying causes and contributing factors involved in the observed pattern...

Parallel Support (PS) is a co-teaching program designed to deliver education services in inclusive settings in Greece. In this quantitative study, 236 special education PS teachers from six major educational regions participated in a survey. The findings indicate that PS is similar to the One Teach, One Assist approach, constituting a static model,...

Change is not synonymous with improvement. Improvement of special education requires better instruction of individuals with disabilities. Although LRE and inclusion are important issues, they are not the primary legal or practical issues in improving special education. Federal law (IDEA) requires a continuum of alternative placements, not placement...

Ειδική Εκπαίδευση και Ένταξη Πολιτικές Συγκλίσεις & Αποκλίσεις με Φόντο τις Διεθνείς Εξελίξεις

Multicultural theorists in education tend to treat disability as part of cultural diversity and apply a minority group model to disability rights. We critically examine the fundamental presuppositions and social justice issues behind this assimilation of disability into a multicultural frame of reference. The implications of the neutralization of d...

Inclusion of students with disabilities when appropriate is an important goal of special education for students with special needs. Full inclusion, meaning no education for any child in a separate setting, is held to be desirable by some, and Italy is likely the nation with an education system most closely approximating full inclusion on the contin...

This study focuses on the contribution of Emmanuel Lambadarios to special education in Greece in the early 20th century. It examines Lambadarios’ involvement in special education, culminating in the establishment of the ‘Model Special School of Athens’ (P.E.S.A.), the first public special education school for children with intellectual disabilities...

Dyslexic difficulties in lexical stress were compared to difficulties in segmental phonology. Twenty-nine adolescents with dyslexia and 29 typically-developing adolescents, matched on age and nonverbal ability, were assessed on reading, spelling, phonological and stress awareness, rapid naming, and short-term memory. Group differences in stress ass...

http://ecx.sagepub.com/content/80/3/353 This study investigated the role of educational and socioeconomic factors in explaining differences in national special education coverage. Data were derived from several international and governmental sources, targeting the year 2008 and covering 143 countries. Descriptive statistics revealed huge dispariti...

A fundamental tension regarding Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is whether the construct corresponds to a valid, distinct, identifiable disorder such that, if the diagnosis is given, treatment can be provided that minimizes detrimental outcomes for individuals, families, and society. The tension begins when the condition is viewed a...

co-teaching) αποτελεί μια σύγχρονη τάση στην εκπαίδευση, φαίνεται να έχει αποδοχή και υπηρετεί μια μερίδα παιδιών με ειδικές εκπαιδευτικές ανάγκες. Στην Ελλάδα, ένας τύπος συνδιδασκαλίας εφαρμόζεται με τη μορφή της παράλληλης στήριξης (Π.Σ.) Θεωρητικά, στη συνδιδασκαλία, οι συνδιδάσκαλοι συνεργάζονται στο να σχεδιάσουν και να διεξάγουν τη διδασκαλί...

The paper explores accordance or discordance between efficacy beliefs of adult students and their writing performance, using a mixed methods design. The participants are 33 students with learning disabilities (LD) and 35 low-achieving (LA) students, who were attending two Second-Chance Schools (SCSs), a specific type of adult education. Quantitativ...

This article critiques the treatment of disability as cultural difference by the theorists of the “social model” and “minority group model” of disability. Both models include all of the various disabling conditions under one term—disability—and fail to distinguish disabilities from cultural differences (e.g., race, ethnicity, or gender differences)...

The paper explores accordance or discordance between efficacy beliefs of adult students and their writing performance, using a mixed methods design. The participants are 33 students with learning disabilities (LD) and 35 low-achieving (LA) students, who were attending two Second-Chance Schools (SCSs), a specific type of adult education. Quantitativ...

The paper presents a descriptive account of a Morphological Processing Spelling Approach (MPSA), which substitutes a more conventional spelling instruction, proposed for developing primary school students’ metamorphological knowledge and strategies in English as a foreign language. For the application of the MPSA, seven dictation texts were careful...

The main goal of this article is to demonstrate the contribution of Emmanuel Lambadarios who can be considered as the key representative of the School of Hygiene and Paidology in Greece as he was the first to see the necessity for a special school in Greece in terms of pedagogy and hygieny.

Proponents of a social model of disability derive their arguments from social constructionism. They combine different disabling conditions under one term: disability. Subsequently, they apply the specific viewpoint of the disability rights social movement of people with physical disabilities to other conditions such as intellectual disabilities, au...

Disproportional representation of minority students in special education is only a symptom of deeper sociopolitical, cultural, and educational structures. In general, the relationship between ethnicity and exceptionality requires also further consideration at different levels: conceptual, political, legal, school system, and teaching. Conceptual Co...

Σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι να περιγράψει και να αναλύσει την επιθετική συμπεριφορά και τον σχολικό εκφοβισμό τριών αγοριών ενός δημοτικού σχολείου στη Βόρεια Ελλάδα. Στην πρώτη φάση της μελέτης καταγράφηκε η συχνότητα των επεισο- δίων της επιθετικής και εκφοβιστικής συμπεριφοράς των τριών αγοριών, έπειτα από τρίμηνη παρατήρησή τους κατά τη δ...

Σκοπός της παρούσας μελέτης είναι να διερευνήσει τις προθέσεις των δασκάλων ειδικής αγωγής (δ.ε.α.) για να στελεχώσουν τα Κέντρα Διαφοροδιάγνωσης, Διάγνωσης και Υποστήριξης (ΚΕΔΔΥ). Το δείγμα της έρευνας αποτέλεσαν 40 δ.ε.α. (21 άνδρες και 19 γυναίκες) που εργάζονταν σε ειδικά σχολεία και Τμήματα Ένταξης της Κεντρικής και Δυτικής Μακεδονίας και είχ...

This pilot study examines the dropping-out reasons of basic education over the last four decades in Greece. Participants of our study were 102 adult students at two Second–Chance Schools (SCSs) in the region of Western Macedonia. Ethnographic data gathered through students’ interviews and participant observation, as well as school records and writi...

The aim of this study was primarily to investigate the effects of morphological strategies training on students with and without spelling difficulties in English as a foreign language (EFL), but also to assess the feasibility of morphological strategies training in a classroom context. The intervention was piloted in the sixth grade of a Greek prim...

This article examines the role of market-based policies in special education, focusing on the case of voucher programs. It examines the nature of contemporary social reforms, while discussing school choice as the theoretical linchpin of a market model for educational reforms. Moreover, it includes analysis of why the market-driven rationale of vouc...

The present study was designed to explore the primary school students’ awareness of reading strategies and to identify possible differences between poor and good readers, in terms of frequency and efficiency. Furthermore, it aimed at exploring the relation between reading strategy awareness and reading comprehension. Eighteen poor readers and eight...

The present study analyzed identification procedures and explored the possibility of dyslexia overidentification in Greece. Data from various institutional sources provided evidence that the prevalence rate of dyslexia in the school population, aged 6-18, was slightly higher than 1%. Compared to the corresponding percentages from the United States...

Το άρθρο αυτό εστιάζει στα κριτήρια και τις διαδικασίες που αφορούν στην ταυτοποίηση των Ειδικών Μαθησιακών Δυσκολιών - Δυσλεξίας, με βάση την πρακτική που ακολουθείται στη χώρα μας. Εξετάζεται o εννοιολογικός και λειτουργικός ορισμός των Ειδικών Μαθησιακών Δυσκολιών – Δυσλεξίας και αναδεικνύονται με κριτικό τρόπο τα θεωρητικά ζητήματα και πρακτικά...