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Disability

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, 1990
Physical, mental, and social disability are defined. A sociomedical scheme for disability research is presented. How physical and social disability are measured in general health surveys and in arthritis research is described and evaluated. Societal and individual impacts of arthritis are distinguished.
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Disabilities, benefits, and disability benefits

International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1986
The purpose of this paper is to relate the patterns of disabilities in a sample of young adults to the amounts they received in social security benefits towards extra arising from disablement. Data on 248 young people aged 18 to 22 who lived in England were obtained by means of interviews with their parents.
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Disability: Neurocognitive Disabilities

2013
The multiplicity of disability definitions can be attributed to the heterogeneity of disability, its multifactoral nature, and its effects across the life span. Of particular concern to the social work profession are those persons with neurocognitive disabilities.
Lisa S. Patchner, Kevin L. DeWeaver
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Disability awareness training for disability professionals

Disability and Rehabilitation, 2001
This article describes work at the Virginia School of the Deaf and Blind in Hampton, Virginia, USA. Disability sensitivity training in businesses and government organizations has become a more important activity in the United States since the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) of 1992 was published.
P A, Peterson, V A, Quarstein
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The Elderly Disabled: The Applicability of Disability Rights for Age-Related Disability

Journal of Legal Medicine, 2020
The question for all who live long lives will be not will one become disabled but when, and in what combinations of factors will one’s disability occur?
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Persons With Disabilities

2017
The title of this chapter is “Persons With Disabilities.” Although it is a basic title, for some people I have already taken a stand. To use the term disabled person instead of person with a disability is thought by many to be politically incorrect because disabled person suggests that the only thing worth mentioning about the person is the disability.
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The Student with a Visual Disability and a Learning Disability

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
Existing studies indicate that between 14% and 65% of students with visual disabilities also have learning disabilities. The similar symptoms of the two conditions and the earlier identification of a visual disability often mask the presence of a learning disability.
J N, Erin, A J, Koenig
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Disability: Physical Disabilities

2013
Physical disability is traditionally defined by society's view of atypical function. The medical model offers information on factors contributing to physical disability, including genetics, injury, and disease. The social model of disability, however, defines the societal responses, not the physical differences, as disabling.
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Disability: Psychiatric Disabilities

2013
The psychosocial catastrophe that accompanies serious mental illness negatively impacts individual performance and success in all key life domains. A person-in-environment perspective, and with a traditional and inherent interest in consumer and community strengths, is well positioned to address psychiatric disabilities.
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The Law's Understanding of Intellectual Disability As a Disability

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Intellectual disability (ID) is differently yet validly described by different professions. Legal professionals find it most useful to consider ID as a disability rather than a disorder. Because the law regulates the actions of individuals in a society and the actions of society on an individual, the law's concern in dealing with a person with ID is ...
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