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Computers and People with Disabilities
ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 1992Editors' comments: “Computers and People with Disabilities” is a reprint of an article originally published in Communications of the ACM in 1992. In this article, Glinert and York issued a “call-to-arms” for research and development on technologies for people with disabilities.
Ephraim P. Glinert, Bryant W. York
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Inclusion of People with Disabilities
Science, 2003The brief note “nas elects recorD number of women” by Jeffrey Mervis (ScienceScope, 2 May, p. 717) reports on a very important advancement for U.S. science policy. The push to elect more women to the U.S. National Academies is most important, and we congratulate the 17 women in the incoming class of 72 members.
Rory A, Cooper, Katherine D, Seelman
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Socialware for People with Disabilities
6th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, 2007Socialware is multiagent systems for supporting social activities in the symbiotic society. In this article, we focused on supporting people with cognitive disabilities such as dementia, aphasia, higher cerebral dysfunction and aged people with cognitive decline.
Fumio Hattori +4 more
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Causing Disabled People to Exist and Causing People to Be Disabled
Ethics, 2005Attempts to determine or to select what kind of person or people to bring into existence are controversial. This is particularly true of “negative selection” or “selecting against” a certain type of person—that is, the attempt to prevent a person of a certain type, or people of that type, from existing.
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Wearables and People With Disabilities
2016Assistive technology including wearables, have a positive impact towards changing the lives of people with disabilities. Advances in glass, electronics, sensors, and a wide range of digital devices are substantially improving how people with disabilities (PWD) navigate the world, and allow greater possibilities for PWD who are competing in today's job ...
Damara Goff Paris, Katrina R. Miller
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2005
Abstract This chapter describes how social injustice affects people with disabilities. It describes the interrelationships between disability, poverty, and inequality. It documents how access to healthcare and disability-specific resources adversely affects people with disabilities.
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Abstract This chapter describes how social injustice affects people with disabilities. It describes the interrelationships between disability, poverty, and inequality. It documents how access to healthcare and disability-specific resources adversely affects people with disabilities.
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Ergonomics, 1989
The paper aims at determining the workspace for disabled young people. The investigation embraced a group of young people with motor dysfunction of lower extremities. Seventeen measurements were taken of 32 boys and 45 girls aged 15-18. There are significant differences in functional dimensions of the arm between the healthy and the disabled ...
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The paper aims at determining the workspace for disabled young people. The investigation embraced a group of young people with motor dysfunction of lower extremities. Seventeen measurements were taken of 32 boys and 45 girls aged 15-18. There are significant differences in functional dimensions of the arm between the healthy and the disabled ...
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A policy by and for people with disability
Disability and Rehabilitation, 1993Disabled Persons Assembly (New Zealand) Inc. is the umbrella group and voice of people with disabilities in New Zealand. Formed from three groups in the early 1980s, it is unique in that the organization includes both individual and corporate members.
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People with Intellectual Disabilities
2010What does it mean to have a good life? Why has it proved so difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to live one? This important book explores these questions, provides an analysis of related policies and underpinning ideologies and looks to how a good life may be made more attainable.
Johnson, K, Walmsley, J, Wolfe, M
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