Disability for HIV and Disincentives for Health: The Impact of South Africa's Disability Grant on HIV/AIDS Recovery [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 South Africa's disability grants program is tied to its HIV/AIDS recovery program, such that individuals who are ill enough may qualify. Qualification is historically tied to a CD4 count of 200 cells/mm3, which improve when a person adheres to antiretroviral therapy.
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The challenge of developing a community partnership model to aid the employment of people with disabilities: the Hamilton Ontario experience [PDF]
Occupational Therapy International, 1996 AbstractPeople with disabilities continue to face major barriers to employment despite major gains in employment equity initiatives and a stronger voice in the political arena. Meanwhile in the employment sector many companies are downsizing, employees are being laid off and work is being restructured. The challenge is to work cooperatively to maximise
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Poverty, Disability and Social Exclusion: New Strategies for Achieving Inclusive Development [PDF]
, 2005 [Excerpt] Despite international investments in development initiatives targeted to people who have a disability – investments by domestic governments in support to people who have a disability and commitments by governments to international and domestic ...
Laurin-Bowie, Connie
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Doing research with children and young people who do not use speech for communication [PDF]
, 2005 Despite emphasis in policy on participation of disabled children, we still know relatively little about how to obtain the views of disabled children with significant communication impairment and their views are often overlooked in planning and service ...
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Toward Fairness in AI for People with Disabilities: A Research Roadmap [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 AI technologies have the potential to dramatically impact the lives of people with disabilities (PWD). Indeed, improving the lives of PWD is a motivator for many state-of-the-art AI systems, such as automated speech recognition tools that can caption videos for people who are deaf and hard of hearing, or language prediction algorithms that can augment ...
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Awareness, requirements and barriers to use of Assistive Technology designed to enable independence of people suffering from Dementia (ATD) [PDF]
, 2012 This article is available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright @ 2012 IOS PressThis study investigated the awareness and use of assistive technology for people with dementia. The aim of the study was to explore barriers to the uptake
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La afasia. Características comunicativas para la intervención enfermera.
ENE. Revista de Enfermería, 2012 Por afasia se entiende la alteración del lenguaje expresivo y/o receptivo a causa de una lesión cerebral . Este trastorno tiene una alta prevalencia afectando al 21%-38% de pacientes que sufren un accidente cerebrovascular .
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Health and Social Care Delivery ResearchBackground Many children and young people in England provide support to family members who are disabled, have mental or physical ill health, or misuse drugs or alcohol.
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Revista CEFAC, 2011 TEMA: a evolução linguística de um sujeito com síndrome não esclarecida, caracterizada por prejuízos motores e ausência de fala, a partir da introdução do recurso da prancha de Comunicação Aumentativa Alternativa (CAA).
Ana Rita Brancalioni +3 more
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Implementation of Automata Theory to Improve the Learning Disability [PDF]
Sindh Univ. Res. Jour. (Sci. Ser.) Vol. 45 (1):1193-196 (2013), 2013 There are various types of disability egress in world like blindness, deafness, and Physical disabilities. It is quite difficult to deal with people with disability. Learning disability (LD) is types of disability totally different from general disability. To deal children with learning disability is difficult for both parents and teacher.
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