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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Disabled Individual"”.
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This disabled body: an authoethnographic study of disability in post apartheid South Africa
… on my history as a queer, Black, physically disabled individual are retold and compared to her current personal narratives to answer questions about disability in a contemporary South African context. Comparing my current experiences to my past, the question of how stigma manifests when …
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Employability of Individuals with Varying Disabilities and Costs of Needed Workplace Accommodations.
… study examined the relationship between an individual's disability and needed workplace accommodations and employability. The participants for this study were businessmen and businesswomen in Southwestern Virginia who possessed the ability to hire employees. Results indicated that an …
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Betwixt and Between: Liminal Spaces and the Disabled Body in Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, Burney’s Camilla, and Dacre’s Zofloya
“Liminal Spaces and The Disabled Body” explores Edmund Burke’s aesthetic paradigms as established in his An Enquiry into the Origin of Our Notions of the Sublime and the Beautiful to recover what disability meant for an eighteenth-century audience. I examine Burney’s Camilla and Eugenia’s …
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Physiologically-mediated Interaction between Children with Profound Disabilities and Their Environment
… 2) present an algorithm that classifies an individual’s mental state using patterns of electrodermal activity to an accuracy of over 80%, and; 3) discusses the challenges with and potential solutions to creating an physiologically-based interaction pathway for children with profound …
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Disability in the Middle Ramu, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea: perceptions, prevalence and the role of community based rehabilitation
… and the socio-economic impact of disability puts disabled individuals at risk of being amongst the poorest in society. Many disabilities in developing countries are preventable. Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) is a rehabilitation model promoted by the World Health Organisation for addressing …
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Learning disabled college students: A psychological assessment of scholastic aptitude
… Federal interest and an increasing number of the disabled have appeared in college classrooms. Among the handicapped receiving increased Federal attention is the Learning Disabled. Although the concept of learning disability" (LD) is controversial and the symptomology many faceted, one of the most …
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An improved scoring system for the Available Motions Inventory (AMI)
… role of engineering in the rehabilitation of the disabled has been steadily increasing in recent years. With the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, that role has taken on a new level of importance. Uncomfortable with the qualitative, disability-oriented assessment tools of their …
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The Complexities of Walking and Rolling: Using Crowdsourced Data to Understand and Analyze the Mobility Barriers Vulnerable Populations Experience as Pedestrians
… with unpredictable cyclist speeds and volumes. Disabled individuals expressed fear and caution regarding steep or obstructed sidewalks. The study's findings underscore the need for inclusive data collection and policy formulation processes. Achieving inclusively designed cities requires engaging …