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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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Persons With Disabilities

2017
The title of this chapter is “Persons With Disabilities.” Although it is a basic title, for some people I have already taken a stand. To use the term disabled person instead of person with a disability is thought by many to be politically incorrect because disabled person suggests that the only thing worth mentioning about the person is the disability.
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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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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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The Law's Understanding of Intellectual Disability As a Disability

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Intellectual 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 ID is ...
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Disability and the Services for the Disabled in Turkey

TAF Preventive Medicine Bulletin, 2012
In Turkey there are approximately 8.5 million (% 12.3) disabled people. While the ratio of orthopedic, visual, auditory, speech, and talking disabilities and mental disability is 2.6%, the ratio of the people who have chronic diseases is 9.7% In our country, by the beginning of 1982 Constitution, there have been a lot of legal regulations.
Seval Ulas, Reyhan Ucku
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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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The Demographics of Disability

The Milbank Quarterly, 1991
In this article, I have attempted to clarify some of the disparate estimates and ways of measuring disability that have been used in different surveys. The definitional issue has implications for the size of the population that will be covered by the ADA.
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Disability in Epileptics

Epilepsia, 1972
SUMMARYThe purpose of this paper was to investigate how many epileptics had a diminished capacity to work in proportion to patients suffering from other neurological and psychiatric illnesses, and the degree of disability in this illness as compared to others.The data was obtained from the two Expert Commissions on Disability (from Novi Sad and ...
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