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University of Ruhuna ISSN: 2706-0063
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Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Further, NCES (2022)

highlights that 12.6% of individuals with disabilities are dropped out
without graduating in the United States suggesting that the policy

considerations still have loopholes in providing equal education to all.

Further, the rates suggest that there is in need for additional support for
SWDs in HE.

Due to many reasons such as lack of awareness of legal rights (Greenberg,

2017) and social stigma (Ecceles et al, 2018), 37% of college students do

not report their conditions to the college administrative (NCES,2022) which
impact on their inclusive education. Hearing impairment (McNeil & Kelley,

1993), visual impairment (Athanasios,2009; Richardson, 2002) and
intellectual disabilities (Safer et al., 2018) are the most commonly addressed

physical disabilities among the HE institutes other than psychological
disorders. Academic coaching, peer mentoring (Ainscow,2019), and

changes in policies (Pivik, 2002) are widely addressed solutions in SWD-

related research to enhance the educational and social inclusion of the
SWDs in HE.

Bibliometric Analysis typically involves the analysis of publication and
citation data, trends in research, patterns of collaboration among scholars

and identifying the influence and impact of individual researchers or
publications within the field (Aria et al, 2017). Bibliometric analysis uses

mathematical and statistical methods to measure and analyse scholarly

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