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Disability: A New Psychosocial Perspective

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1993
A previously disabled family member is presented as a psychosocial determinant in the subsequent disability of the patient. Eighty-three disabled patients presented for an independent medical examination of the upper extremity. All were seeking a workers' compensation settlement or continued workers' compensation benefits.
J T, Stutts, M L, Kasdan
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Aging and Disability: Biopsychosocial Perspectives

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 2010
Understanding the complex trajectories of disability and aging requires a biopsychosocial approach that considers disability in the broader context of later adulthood. Although disability service researchers and gerontologists have many shared interests and a similar mission, the fields are relatively new to one another and have had little historical ...
Ivan R, Molton, Mark P, Jensen
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An Italian Perspective on Learning Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
The authors' experience derives from over 10 years of study of the neuropsychological characteristics of children with learning disabilities (LD) who were referred to a public children'S hospital. Some sociocultural and linguistic aspects of children with learning disabilities in Italy, and in particular in the northeastern Friuli-Venetia-Julia region,
FABBRO, Franco, MASUTTO C.
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Learning Disabilities

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
The heterogeneity of children with learning disorders is discussed. Subtypes of learning disabilities based on neuropsychological, developmental, and behavioral perspectives are reviewed. Each approach is examined in terms of its particular definition and explanation of learning disorders as well as its strengths and weaknesses and implications for ...
J W, Coplin, S B, Morgan
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Disabled Children's Perspectives

Journal of Integrated Care, 2003
This article describes the duties of statutory agencies to ascertain the views of disabled children and to involve them in decisions that affect them. Related to this duty is the responsibility to provide speech and language therapy. The role of advocates in supporting disabled children is considered.
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Sexual assault: Disabled perspective

Sexuality and Disability, 1981
Sexual assault hits every group of people, including persons with disabilities. The fact that many forces in our culture—and disabled persons themselves—view disabled persons as asexual results in the disabled person being even more vulnerable to sexual assault than their nondisabled counterparts.
Charles K. Stuart, Virginia W. Stuart
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Sociological Perspectives on Disability

2021
Abstract This chapter outlines the roots of disability scholarship in sociology and how the sociology of disability subfield positions disability as an axis of inequality. The first part of the chapter argues that sociology is uniquely positioned to understand how disability as a social category is made through institutional structures ...
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