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Anatomy in Cuvier's Paris: Broadening participation through an international research program for historically minoritized undergraduates

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Most research programs recruit students with high grades, previous lab experience, and strong supervisor recommendations. However, these requirements can bar students from historically marginalized backgrounds from gaining these kinds of valuable experiences, thus contributing to the well documented limited diversity in science, technology ...
Jacqueline Cerda‐Smith, Ashley R. Deutsch, Adam Hartstone‐Rose   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food insecurity and disability among working-age and older adults

Public Health Nutrition
Objective: To explore relationships between disability, food insecurity (FI) and age and examine how socio-economic factors impact risk of FI among disabled people in working and older age.
Mia Hadfield-Spoor, Mauricio Avendano, Rachel Loopstra   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Working on Disability in Country Programmes [PDF]

, 2007
[Excerpt] The World Bank estimates that 20% of the world’s poorest people are disabled. This means that disabled people comprise one of the largest single groups of excluded and chronically poor people in the developing world.
Department for International Development
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'Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place': Anti-discrimination Legislation in the Liberal State and the Fate of the Australian Disability Discrimination Act [PDF]

, 2002
This article offers a critical analysis of some of the practical implications for disabled people of the Disability Discrimination Act of 1992. Specifically, it raises questions about politics and the role of the law as an instrument of social change ...
ACROD, ACROD, Attridge M., Banks R., Barnes C., Barry N., CAA [Community Aid Abroad], Cabassi J., Charlesworth H., Gooding C., Graham H.D., Greenwood G., Howe B., HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], HREOC [Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission], Jones M., Jones M., Kanter A.S., Laski H., Mackimon C., Maddox G., Mason A., Menzies R., Mosley A., NSWADB [New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board], NSWADB [New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board], Pengelly K., Peter Handley, Riker W., Thornton M., UPIAS [Union of the Physically Impaired against Segregation], Yeatman A.   +33 more
core   +1 more source

Associating cognitive abilities with naturalistic search behavior

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 665-685, April 2025.
Abstract Differences in cognitive abilities affect search behaviors, but this has mostly been observed in laboratory experiments. There is limited research on how users search for information in real‐world, naturalistic settings and how real‐world search behaviors relate to cognitive abilities.
Tung Vuong, Pritom Kumar Das, Tuukka Ruotsalo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Being Disabled in Gaza: A Situation Assessment in the Context of Problems, Needs and International Organisations

Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi
The fact that life in Gaza has been under full blockade since 2007 has created an even more disadvantageous environment for disabled people who cannot participate in society in the necessary way.
Zehra Erol Karaca, Meryem Serdar
doaj   +1 more source

Independent Living, Politics and Implications [PDF]

, 2003
[Excerpt] The idea of ‘independent’ living as used by the disabled people’s movement around the world is a radical concept firmly rooted in the ideological, cultural and pragmatic traditions of western society.
Barnes, Colin
core   +1 more source

Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing to Nonspeaking Autistic People

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At least one third of autistic people have limited or no speech. Most nonspeaking autistic people are never provided alternatives that would enable the full range of expression that speech allows, significantly limiting their access to educational, social, and employment opportunities.
Vikram K. Jaswal, Barry M. Prizant, Morgan D. Barense, Kristie Patten, Gary Stobbe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internet access for disabled people: Understanding socio-relational factors in Europe

, 2017
Access to the Internet has become a sine qua non-of everyday life. It also offers new routes to economic and social inclusion for disabled people. Research on the digital divide shows that social factors affect Internet access but disability status is ...
Frederike Scholz, B. Yalcin, M. Priestley   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Disabled people’s experiences of accessing reasonable adjustments in hospitals: a qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
BackgroundThe 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, P. Heslop, S. Turner, Victoria Mason-Angelow, Nadine Tilbury, C. Miles, C. Hatton   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source