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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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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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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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The Law's Understanding of Intellectual Disability As a Disability

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
AbstractIntellectual 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 ...
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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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Disabling disability amid competing ideologies

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2017
This paper critiques current arguments advancing the potential for transhumanism and a range of biological and pharmacological enhancements to better human flourishing. It does so from a historical perspective weighing the individualistic and competitive evolutionary theories of Darwin with the cooperative and communal theories of Prince Peter ...
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Burns in the disabled

Burns, 1993
A retrospective analysis of 812 patients admitted to the Ross Tilley Burn Centre between 1984 and 1992 resulted in 37 cases of burn injuries which were directly related to premorbid disabilities. The majority of these burns (83.8 per cent) occurred in the patient's home, most commonly as scald injuries in the bath tub, the shower, or following hot ...
R, Backstein, W, Peters, P, Neligan
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Disability identity – disability pride

Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012
This 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 and diabetes

International Disability Studies, 1990
Little work has been carried out on diabetes and disability. A questionnaire survey on the employment of people with diabetes aged 17-65 years was carried out in the UK. Data were also collected from a questionnaire sent to a random sample of employers.
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