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Disability identity – disability pride
Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012This paper discusses a way of thinking about disability which has emerged out of the UK Disabled People's Movement over the last three decades in opposition to the preceding medical model of disabi...
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Disability: Physical Disabilities
2013Physical 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
2013The 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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Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1993
Although the major manifestations of learning disabilities are expressed in the classroom, the pediatrician has several important roles to play. Identification may be achieved in the early school years by systematic observation of the child's neurodevelopment and school progress.
B K, Shapiro, R P, Gallico
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Although the major manifestations of learning disabilities are expressed in the classroom, the pediatrician has several important roles to play. Identification may be achieved in the early school years by systematic observation of the child's neurodevelopment and school progress.
B K, Shapiro, R P, Gallico
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Physical Therapy, 1994
Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and a major cause of disability in the elderly. Although the incidence of stroke is decreasing, its prevalence in the population is increasing because of enhanced survival and a growing elderly population.
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Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the United States and a major cause of disability in the elderly. Although the incidence of stroke is decreasing, its prevalence in the population is increasing because of enhanced survival and a growing elderly population.
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Journal of Medical Ethics, 2007
This paper responds to the reviews by Edwards, Holm, Koch, Thomas and Vehmas ofDisability Rights and Wrongs(2006). After summarising the recent history of disability studies as a discipline, it explores: the political nature of disability research, questions of ontology and definition, and the uses and abuses of the expressivist argument. Disability is
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This paper responds to the reviews by Edwards, Holm, Koch, Thomas and Vehmas ofDisability Rights and Wrongs(2006). After summarising the recent history of disability studies as a discipline, it explores: the political nature of disability research, questions of ontology and definition, and the uses and abuses of the expressivist argument. Disability is
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Nursing Management, 2008
Valuing People Now is the Department of Health's proposed three-year plan of priorities for the learning disability agenda, based on the Valuing People white paper, published in 2001.
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Valuing People Now is the Department of Health's proposed three-year plan of priorities for the learning disability agenda, based on the Valuing People white paper, published in 2001.
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The Lancet, 2003
Learning disability is common, affecting 1-2.5% of the general population in the Western world, and encompasses many different conditions. It usually leads to major functional impairment and lifelong need for support and interventions, not the least important of which are medical and health-care services.
Christopher, Gillberg +1 more
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Learning disability is common, affecting 1-2.5% of the general population in the Western world, and encompasses many different conditions. It usually leads to major functional impairment and lifelong need for support and interventions, not the least important of which are medical and health-care services.
Christopher, Gillberg +1 more
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Disability Studies/Disability Culture
2013Abstract This chapter addresses three primary questions: What is disability culture? What is disability studies? How do these two interact? Disability culture is explored as a movement “from the inside out,” one focused on issues of choice, power, language, and identity/community.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
This Article argues that the practice of holding so many adjudicative proceedings related to disability in private settings (e.g., guardianship, special education due process, civil commitment, and social security) relative to our strong normative presumption of public access to adjudication may cultivate and perpetuate stigma in contravention of the ...
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This Article argues that the practice of holding so many adjudicative proceedings related to disability in private settings (e.g., guardianship, special education due process, civil commitment, and social security) relative to our strong normative presumption of public access to adjudication may cultivate and perpetuate stigma in contravention of the ...
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