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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Disabled person"”.
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An Approach to Empathic Design for Assistive Technology
… those without them. An effective way to free disabled people from these circumstances would be to design proper job accommodation for them. Ordinarily, physical conditions severely restrict their ability to carry out their work efficiently unless they have are provided with appropriately …
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Caregiving in Later Life: A Contextual Approach to the Provision of Care
… was defined as care provided to sick or disabled persons, with frequency of providing care classified as often, sometimes, and never. The majority of older adults provided at least some care to others over a one-year period, with almost one-third doing so often and only one-quarter never …
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Vaikeavammaisen nuoren aikuistuminen : Yksilöllinen ja erilainen elämänkulku
Transition to adulthood of severely disabled adolescents. Diversity in individual life courses. The focus of this study is to examine the transition to adulthood of severely disabled adolescents as part of their life course. The data for this study were gathered through interviews with nine …
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A norm-independent technique for assessing physical ability of the severely disabled
… for assessing the physical ability of severely disabled persons became evident through experience with some of the existing techniques. A technique was developed which attempts to overcome some of the difficulties found with the other techniques. One of the distinguishing properties of this …
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Disability, identity and media : paralympians in advertising
… have the power to define what it means to be a disabled person. Using a poststructural theoretical framework, I undertake a critical discourse analysis of television advertisements produced by Nike and Visa to uncover what narratives regarding disability are circulating with regularity. I find …
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Towards a disability justice pedagogy in the higher education classroom
… with two methods, autoethnography from my own personal experiences as a disabled person, and semi-structured interviews with instructors who center disability and accessibility in their teaching as well as with students who have disabilities. This dissertation identifies the largest barriers to …
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Šeimos narių komunikacija konstruojant Dauno sindromą turinčio asmens ugdymo/si ir socialinės gerovės prielaidas /
The communication of a disabled person and his family work is considered as educational interaction and precondition of social welfare for a person who has disability in the present. Family in disability situation is understood as an environment having exceptional significance for the …
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Attitudes towards the disabled in destination marketing organizations
… CEO's/Executive Directors towards the disabled. The study uses Wolfensberger's (1983) Social Role Valorization Theory as a basis for examining these attitudes. This theory proposes that when society gives value to the disabled person, then the society as a whole gains. First, the …
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A knowledge acquisition tool to assist case authoring from texts.
… therapist (OT) that assesses the needs of a new disabled person may be reminded of a previous person in terms of their disabilities. He may or may not decide to recommend the same devices based on the outcome of an earlier (disabled) person. Case-based reasoning makes use of a collection of past …
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Permanência na escola: um desafio na trajetória escolar da pessoa com deficiência
… on the challenges for the permanence of the disabled person in the public school and the public university. It is a qualitative research whose first step was to rescue memories after building a school diary, from it to identify thematic axes that were bullying, the role of the teacher and the …
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Disabled volunteers : an analysis of the experiences of wheelchair-users who volunteer
… of volunteering which tends to conceptualise non-disabled people as the instigators of voluntary action (the helpers) and disabled people as the recipients of volunteerism (the helped). It also begins to fill a notable gap in academic knowledge about the volunteering experiences of disabled …
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Disability Identity in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Letters
… authority based in part on his experience as a disabled person. His letters to Robert Southey describe the influences his illnesses had on his sense of self, his inability to meet normative expectations, and negotiations in living with a disabled identity. The final part of the thesis examines …
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Disabled person's control, communication and entertainment aid: an investigation of the feasibility of using speech control and natural language understanding to control a manipulator and a software application and development environment
… to the use of a computer by a physically disabled person. Solutions are proposed for the overcoming of some of the difficulties and limitations of the available equipment, and guidance given for the application of such systems to real tasks. The use of voice control with a low cost …
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Testemunhos de famílias de pessoas com deficiência nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental da Escola Municipal Vereador João Belmiro dos Santos
… Work aimed to analyze five families evidence of persons with Disabilities in the Elementary School at Vereador João Belmiro dos Santos, municipal school located in Alto da Boa Vista, in Bayeux - PB, highlighting how they live as same and pondering the role that’s school must exercise in …
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Evacuation Modelling of Mixed-Ability Populations in Fire Emergencies
… In this context 'disability' relates to a person's physical or mental condition that impinges on their ability to react and move promptly in an emergency. Various evacuation modelling techniques are being adopted to study the movement of occupants during emergencies since the exposure of …
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Vision based system for detecting and counting mobility aids in surveillance videos
… is solved by developing an application to count disabled pedestrians in surveillance videos by automatically detecting and tracking mobility aids and pedestrians. The application demonstrates that the proposed ideas achieve the desired outcomes. There are extensive studies on pedestrian detection …
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Physical access for persons with disabilities
For persons with disabilities, the activities that able-bodied people take for granted can be major, often insurmountable challenges. Attempting to enter a restaurant for lunch with friends can result in lengthy and adversarial litigation if the facility is not accessible to a person with a …
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'You are all my people': building disabled community in Uganda's microentrepreneur economy
… parliament and local councils to include disabled members, elected by registered disabled people in each community. Consequently, Uganda has an unusually institutionalised disability movement, with over 45,000 disabled councillors and, theoretically, disabled people’s organisations in …
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Avaliação das atividades de vida diária em pacientes com doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica e sintomas depressivos através do pulmonary functional status and dyspena questionnaire (PFSDQ)
Os sintomas depressivos em pacientes com doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica (DPOC) estão associados a mortalidade, exacerbações, dispneia, queda no desempenho físico, inatividade e limitações funcionais na realização das atividades da vida diária (AVDs). A limitação funcional é percebida através da …
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A case study exploring disability inclusion within the Muslim Ummah in South Africa
… are central to the way many people, including persons with disabilities, make sense of both the world itself, and their place in that world. However, in most scholarship focusing on disability, religion, as a way of understanding and dealing with disability, is side-lined or absent (Imhoff, …
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