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A snapshot of the chalkboard writing experiences of Bachelor of Education students with visual disabilities in South Africa

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Disability, 2019
Background: South African higher education policy frameworks highlight renewed interest in equity, access and participation imperatives for students with disabilities (SWDs).
Roshanthni Subrayen, Rubby Dhunpath
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The genetics of learning disabilities [PDF]

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 1998
Moderate and severe learning disabilities are defined as conditions in which intellectual capacity is compromised, with the likelihood that there will be no catch‐up development.
openaire   +2 more sources

Extending Service Beyond Active Duty: Generalizability of Rheumatoid Arthritis Research Conducted Among US Veterans

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Biomedical research involving US veterans continues to advance health care beyond the Veterans Health Administration. This is particularly true in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), where veteran‐centric research has uncovered novel insights into pathogenesis, risk factors, and disease manifestations, informing clinical care and research across both veteran ...
Austin M. Wheeler   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validation of the Swedish Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (Screening Version) and Evaluation of Its Effect in Hearing Aid Rehabilitation

open access: yesTrends in Hearing, 2016
Self-reports of subjective hearing difficulties by people with hearing loss may be a useful complement to audiometry in hearing aid rehabilitation. To be useful, such self-reports need to be reliable.
Marie Öberg
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Cognitive Processing Speed, Working Memory, and the Intelligibility of Hearing Aid-Processed Speech in Persons with Hearing Impairment

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Previous studies have demonstrated that successful listening with advanced signal processing in digital hearing aids is associated with individual cognitive capacity, particularly working memory capacity (WMC).
Wycliffe Kabaywe Yumba   +1 more
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Automated Hand Flexor Tendon–Thickness Measurement in Systemic Sclerosis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Systemic sclerosis (SSc) can affect flexor tendons, contributing to hand function problems and reduced quality of life. Tendon changes are currently assessed with ultrasonography and measured manually, a time‐consuming process prone to interobserver variability.
Mark Greveling   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting Families through Early Intervention

open access: yesIranian Rehabilitation Journal, 2003
Internationally early intervention programmes for infants and preschoolers with disabilities have proved to be remarkably successful. In many countries, they began with teachers for visually impaired or hearing impaired children visiting the family home ...
Roy McConkey
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Navigating Complexity: A Case Report on Interplay of Intellectual Disability (ID), Schizophrenia, Clozapine Treatment and Chemotherapy

open access: yesBJPsych Open
Aims The use of Clozapine treatment requires rigorous and mandatory monitoring due to the side effects profile of Clozapine. Certain clinical situations may pose a dilemma for clinicians such as concomitant use of clozapine during myelosuppressive ...
Alexandra Marconi, Alaa Martin
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Testing listening effort for speech comprehension using the individuals’ cognitive spare capacity

open access: yesAudiology Research, 2011
Most hearing aid fittings today are almost solely based on the patient’s audiogram. Although the loss of gain in the cochlea is important, for a more optimal fitting, more individual parameters of the patient’s cochlear loss together with the patient's ...
N. Rönnberg, S. Stenfelt, M. Rudner
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