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Tradeoffs in Visual Impairment Rehabilitation: Hearing Service User Accounts of Rehabilitative Relationships and Organisational Culture in South Africa

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2022
In order to access skills for adjusting to visual impairment (VI), individuals are drawn into the fabric of rehabilitation organisations and into relationships with rehabilitation workers.
Michelle Botha, Brian Watermeyer
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Vaccine Coverage among Children with and without Intellectual Disabilities in the UK: Cross Sectional Study

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Universal childhood vaccination programmes form a core component of child health policies in most countries, including the UK. Achieving high coverage rates of vaccines is critical for establishing ‘herd immunity’ and preventing disease ...
Eric Emerson, Janet Robertson, Susannah Baines, Chris Hatton   +3 more
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Obesity in British children with and without intellectual disability: cohort study

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Reducing the prevalence of and inequities in the distribution of child obesity will require developing interventions that are sensitive to the situation of ‘high risk’ groups of children.
Eric Emerson, Janet Robertson, Susannah Baines, Chris Hatton   +3 more
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Deep Learning Algorithms to Identify Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children-Based Facial Landmarks

Applied Sciences, 2023
People with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) have difficulty recognizing and engaging with others. The symptoms of ASD may occur in a wide range of situations. There are numerous different types of functions for people with an ASD.
Hasan Alkahtani, Theyazn H. H. Aldhyani, Mohammed Y. Alzahrani   +2 more
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Intellectual disability content within tertiary medical curriculum: how is it taught and by whom?

BMC Medical Education, 2018
Background Individuals with intellectual disability experience higher rates of physical and mental health conditions compared with the general population, yet have inequitable access to health care services.
Julian N. Trollor, Claire Eagleson, Beth Turner, Jane Tracy, Jennifer J. Torr, Seeta Durvasula, Teresa Iacono, Rachael C. Cvejic, Nicolas Lennox   +8 more
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The distribution of neuroligin4, an autism-related postsynaptic molecule, in the human brain

Molecular Brain, 2023
NLGN4X was identified as a single causative gene of rare familial nonsyndromic autism for the first time. It encodes the postsynaptic membrane protein Neuroligin4 (NLGN4), the functions and roles of which, however, are not fully understood due to the ...
Akie Toya, Masahide Fukada, Eiko Aoki, Tohru Matsuki, Masashi Ueda, Shima Eda, Yoshio Hashizume, Akio Iio, Shigeo Masaki, Atsuo Nakayama   +9 more
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Learning Italian as a Second Language in a Sample of Ukrainian Children: A Game-Based Learning Approach

Pediatric Reports, 2023
Game-based learning is an educational approach aimed at acquiring knowledge through the use of play. There are various studies that note the effectiveness of playing as an educational tool and the use of digital platforms as a tool that can increase its ...
Alessandro Frolli, Francesco Cerciello, Clara Esposito, Mariagrazia Russo, Fabio Bisogni   +4 more
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Has teaching about intellectual disability healthcare in Australian medical schools improved? A 20-year comparison of curricula audits

BMC Medical Education, 2020
Background People with intellectual disability (ID) have multiple and complex health needs, more frequent healthcare episodes, and experience poorer health outcomes. Research conducted two decades ago showed that medical professionals were lacking in the
Julian N. Trollor, Claire Eagleson, Beth Ruffell, Jane Tracy, Jennifer J. Torr, Seeta Durvasula, Teresa Iacono, Rachael C. Cvejic, Nicholas Lennox   +8 more
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Creating Personas with Disabilities [PDF]

, 2020
Personas can help raise awareness among stakeholders about users' needs. While personas are made-up people, they are based on facts gathered from user research. Personas can also be used to raise awareness of universal design and accessibility needs of people with disabilities.
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Impact of a disability-targeted microentrepreneurship programme in Kenya: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of the InBusiness programme

Trials, 2023
Background There is a lack of evidence on the effectiveness of livelihood interventions amongst people with disabilities. In many countries, self-employment or microentrepreneurship is a dominant source of livelihoods for people with disabilities and ...
Lena Morgon Banks, Stella Kepha, Anja Zinke-Allmang, Paul M. Gichuki, Nathaniel Scherer, Charles Mwandawiro, Mark Carew, Doris Njomo, Shanquan Chen, Collins Okoyo, Calum Davey, Tom Shakespeare, Maria Antonella Pereira, Divya Goyal, Hannah Kuper   +14 more
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