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People with Disabilities and Disasters
(Springer, 2018)
Investigations have collectively established that disasters affect people with disabilities both disproportionately and negatively. Relevant research is reviewed by academic genesis areas in this chapter, namely; 1) ...
Special education in Costa Rica
(Wiley, 2018-07)
Costa Rica has the strongest public education system in Central America. The 1869 constitution mandated a free, obligatory, and state-supported educational system making Costa Rica one of the first countries in the world ...
People with disabilities and disasters
(Springer, 2017)
Investigations have collectively established that disasters affect people with disabilities both disproportionately and negatively. Relevant research is reviewed by academic genesis areas in this chapter, namely; 1) ...
Disaster and social vulnerability: The case of undocumented Mexican migrant workers
(Edwin Mellen, 2010)
The undocumented status of many immigrants disfranchises them from receiving most of the state and federal support offered to other members of their community. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ...
Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education
(2018-09-15)
Costa Rica is progressive in the area of special education. Special education services were formally established in 1939 when the Fernando Centeno Güell school for children with mental retardation was created near the ...