EQUATORIAL GUINEA:  A Classroom for the Mentally Disabled
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MADRID, Dec 3 (IPS) - The only classroom for the mentally disabled in the   tiny West African nation of Equatorial Guinea is run by two  non-governmental  organisations, because for the government, the  mentally handicapped do not  exist, an activist told IPS in  Spain.
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One school of thought would provide alternative development aid locally. The other focuses on prevention, rehabilitation, and treatment.
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Description: Commentator Meri Danquah lives in Ghana. The recent unrest in neighboring Ivory Coast has her thinking more than ever about the stability of West Africa.
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A versatile portable device can play a role in tests, note-taking and homework, and even act as a blackboard.
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A 72-year-old nonprofit organization in Manhattan runs job training and employment programs for people with disabilities or mental illness.
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Some preschool teachers would do anything to keep their students quiet, but Phyllis Wilson's classroom is designed to get them talking. Her seven preschoolers have a variety of disabilities that leave them with low verbal skills. So she's worked with Houston school district speech-language pathologist Johanna Olson to create an environment that teases out their voices.
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A new system of sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua may hold clues about the evolution of languages.
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FOUR people have controlled a computer using their thoughts and an electrode-studded thinking cap. US researchers said the set-up could help disabled people operate a motorised wheelchair or artificial limb.
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Researchers talk to college students about growing up with attention problems.
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New specialist schools are being tried in England - focusing on helping children with learning difficulties.
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Lance Knobel: "I'd install FlickrFan in every middle school and high school social studies class. I guarantee it would provoke endless discussion and ensure engagement in the issues of the day." I totally agree. It would be great to see it at checkout lines in supermarkets and on kiosks in BART stations too.
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When Penn Manor High School technology teacher Shawn Canady asked for volunteers to create interactive-learning games for first- graders, three of his students stood up.  When the task was completed hundreds of hours later, only one student was left standing: senior Rob Drummond.
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Instead of a traditional classroom setting, high school students participating in an alternative program at Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration are getting a hands-on learning experience alongside beluga whales, seals and other marine life.
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Occupational therapist Karen Jacobs stumbled into the study of ergonomics quite by accident. She walked into her children's computer classroom in middle school and was horrified. "Everything was a mismatch," she remembers about the chairs, tables, and computers. "I thought, 'Oh my gosh, they are predisposing themselves to discomfort.' "
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A new generation of complex, electronic birth simulators allow medical students to practice labor and birth -- especially when there are complications. Meet the mannequins.
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By Suganthi Suparmaniam  KUALA LUMPUR: Luwiza Mohd Fadzil's ideal school would be disabled- friendly and have computers for the blind.
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How do children respond to stereotypes about race, religion and gender? A child-development expert looks at contradictions in kids' behavior.