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Health equity for persons with disabilities: a global scoping review on barriers and interventions in healthcare services. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Equity Health, 2023
Background Persons with disabilities experience health inequities in terms of increased mortality, morbidity, and limitations in functioning when compared to the rest of the population.
Gréaux M   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Grant Support as an Option for the Solution of Specific and Systemic Problems in the Activities of Non-Profit Organizations [PDF]

open access: yesConsortium Psychiatricum, 2021
The existing practices for the participation of non-profit organizations (NPOs) in solutions for social policy problems both in the Western world and in Russia are reviewed in this article, and a comparative analysis of the Russian and foreign ...
Kira M. Gebel, Aleksey E. Geger
doaj   +1 more source

Graphomotor memory in Exner’s area enhances word learning in the blind

open access: yesCommunications Biology, 2021
Mizuochi-Endo et al. conduct a fMRI study, which reveals that in blind participants, unlike sighted participants, learning new words is associated with increased activity in Exner’s area—a part of the brain known to play a crucial role in handwriting ...
Tomomi Mizuochi-Endo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Communication Basics in the Implementation of a Route-oriented Approach in Creating an Accessible Environment for Persons with Disabilities

open access: yesProceedings of III Research-to-Practice Conference with International Participation “The Value of Everyone. The Life of a Person with Mental Disorder: Support, Life Arrangements, Social Integration”, 2023
Described are the means and technologies that ensure the availability of information for people with disabilities who have intellectual and speech impairments, aimed at creating an accessible environment, overcoming information barriers using a route ...
O.A. Miroshnichenko, I. G. Vechkanova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assistive technologies are central to the realization of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

open access: yesDisability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2022
Assistive technologies (ATs) promote participation and inclusion in society, and support access to health, social services, education, work and other important life experiences for persons with disabilities, older people and those with chronic conditions.
E. Smith   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social Biases in NLP Models as Barriers for Persons with Disabilities [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
Building equitable and inclusive NLP technologies demands consideration of whether and how social attitudes are represented in ML models. In particular, representations encoded in models often inadvertently perpetuate undesirable social biases from the ...
Ben Hutchinson   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Qualitative and quantitative analysis of self-reported sensory issues in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
IntroductionIndividuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and specific learning disorders (SLD) have various types of sensory characteristics.MethodsThis study ...
Makoto Wada   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhanced use of gaze cue in a face-following task after brief trial experience in individuals with autism spectrum disorder

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Eye movements toward sequentially presented face images with or without gaze cues were recorded to investigate whether those with ASD, in comparison to their typically developing (TD) peers, could prospectively perform the task according to gaze cues ...
Takao Fukui   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sexual Violence Against Persons With Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis

open access: yesTrauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2021
A growing number of large-scale studies suggest that people with disabilities are at greater risk of sexual victimization than nondisabled individuals. However, certain results are inconsistent and whether potential moderators explain this variability in
Amylee Mailhot Amborski   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Factors associated with public attitudes towards persons with disabilities: a systematic review

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
The aim of this review is to identify and summarize factors that are associated with public attitudes towards people with various disabilities systematically.
Ziru Wang   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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