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Brain Sciences, 2021 Background: The rapid expansion and severity of the COVID-19 contagion has had negative physical and psychological health implications for millions of people around the world, but even more so among children and adolescents.
Alessandro Frolli +6 more
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Being a Disabled Patient: Negotiating the Social Practices of Hospitals in England
Social 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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International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2023 Despite increased attention to special education teacher well-being in the past decade, special education teachers continue to leave the field at twice the rate of general education teachers (Boe, 2014; Fox et al., 2020).
Heather L. Walter +4 more
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Paralympic cultures: disability as paradigm [PDF]
, 2013 This is an article about the Paralympic Games of summer 2012 and the experience of watching them. It rehearses the use of disability as political and cultural identity in relation to theatre and performance studies. Disability identity is not an identity
Conroy, Colette
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Early Check: translational science at the intersection of public health and newborn screening
BMC 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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“I’d Rather Be Dead Than Disabled”—The Ableist Conflation and the Meanings of Disability [PDF]
, 2017 Despite being assailed for decades by disability activists and disability studies scholars spanning the humanities and social sciences, the medical model of disability—which conceptualizes disability as an individual tragedy or misfortune due to genetic ...
Reynolds, Joel Michael
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On making disability in rural places more visible: challenges and opportunities [Introduction to a special issue] [PDF]
, 2017 This essay prefaces a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies (JRS) concerned with a sub-field of inquiry that might be termed the rural geography of disability, addressing multiple dimensions of disability, physical and mental, associated with ...
Chouinard, Vera +2 more
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Rights and knowledge-based approach to aging and disability: an overview of issues and approaches
Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach, 2012 This analysis paper is part of a larger project led by the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies (CCDS) and funded by Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC), called “From Research and Knowledge to Better Practice: Building Strategies and ...
Olga Krassioukova-Enns, Laurie Ringaert
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Frontiers in Neurology, 2023 BackgroundIn Ghana, over 270,000 people live with epilepsy, of which 70% do not receive treatment. Despite the high number of people with the condition, misconceptions exist about its causes and management in African regions.
Daniel Gyaase +12 more
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Disabled people’s experiences of accessing reasonable adjustments in hospitals: a qualitative study
BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background The UK Equality Act 2010 requires providers of health services to make changes or ‘reasonable adjustments’ to their practices in order to protect disabled people from discrimination or disadvantage when accessing care.
Stuart Read +6 more
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