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Arthritis disability and heart disease disability [PDF]

open access: yesArthritis Care & Research, 2008
Abstract Objective Arthritis is the most common health condition in midlife and late life, and heart disease is the leading cause of death. This article compares disability impacts of these 2 preeminent health problems. Methods
Verbrugge, Lois M., Juarez, Lucia
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Learning Italian as a Second Language in a Sample of Ukrainian Children: A Game-Based Learning Approach

open access: yesPediatric 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Center on Disability Studies eNewsletter, May 2021 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Welcome to the CDS Newsletter for May 2021. In this issue, you'll learn more about events happening this month as well as our ongoing activities. In particular, you will find results from our 36th Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability
Raphael, Raphael   +4 more
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Being a Disabled Patient: Negotiating the Social Practices of Hospitals in England

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2018
Accessing hospital care and being a patient is a highly individualised process, but it is also dependent on the culture and practices of the hospital and the staff who run it.
Stuart Read   +4 more
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The distribution of neuroligin4, an autism-related postsynaptic molecule, in the human brain

open access: yesMolecular 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   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Seeing the talker’s face supports executive processing of speech in steady state noise

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2013
Listening to speech in noise depletes cognitive resources, affecting speech processing. The present study investigated how remaining resources or cognitive spare capacity (CSC) can be deployed by young adults with normal hearing.
Sushmit eMishra   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early Check: translational science at the intersection of public health and newborn screening

open access: yesBMC Pediatrics, 2019
Background Newborn screening (NBS) occupies a unique space at the intersection of translational science and public health. As the only truly population-based public health program in the United States, NBS offers the promise of making the successes of ...
Donald B. Bailey   +23 more
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Evaluation of telemental health services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: protocol for a randomized non-inferiority trial

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Roughly 40% of those with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD) have mental health needs, twice the national average. Unfortunately, outpatient mental health services are often inaccessible, increasing reliance on hospital-based ...
Luther G. Kalb   +9 more
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Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State

open access: yes
This book looks at disability as an evolving social phenomenon. Disability is created through the interaction between persons with impairments and their environment. Exploring these experiences of persons with disabilities and discussing universality and

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Screening for offenders with an intellectual disability: The validity of the Learning Disability Screening Questionnaire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The study assessed the validity of an intellectual disability screening tool, the Learning Disability Screening Questionnaire (LDSQ), in three forensic settings: a community intellectual disability forensic service; a forensic in-patient secure unit and ...
Hales, Charlene   +3 more
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