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Showing 1 to 20 of 146 for “"handicap"”.
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Stuttering as a Handicap: an Attitude Survey
… the extent to which stuttering presents a handicap to the client in three potential aspects of life (i.e. perceived voactional/professional, personal/social, and educational success). Twenty individuals who stutter responded to 117 statements expressing their perceptions of the degree of …
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Towards a social theory of mental handicap
… and psychology have characterised mental handicap as an objectively diagnosable condition of the individual, in no way affected by society. Sociologists have reacted against this dominant paradigm by developing labelling theory accounts of how individuals and state agencies can create and …
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‘Gradual spiritual formation' - postcolonial mental handicap nursing in Ireland 1919-70
… was utilised to examine thedevelopment of mental handicap nursing in Ireland. The research derives from a historiographicalstudy of documentary records for the period 1919-70 in Britain and Ireland to investigate the roleplayed by key stakeholders in the development of what at the time of writing …
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Development of an in-line putter for handicap friendly tabletop golf games
The market for handicapped tabletop games is severely untapped. The students of the Red Team in the course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes, a capstone design project course in the Mechanical Engineering Department) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology attempted to produce a tabletop …
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Orientation et croyances religieuse des parents catholiques ayant un enfant atteint d'un handicap
… d'adaptation à la naissance d'un enfant handicapé. Cent quarante-neuf parents des deux sexes (âge moyen : 40,1 ans) ont été invités à remplir certains questionnaires. Les parents d'enfants handicapés (N = 97), qui formaient le groupe de test, devaient remplir trois questionnaires : le …
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Skill assessment and its relationship to the training and education of nurses caring for people with mental handicap
Currently, mental handicap nursing reflects a scenario whereby major advances have occurred within a relatively short time scale. Sophistication not previously recognised has created an educational requirement for a clear relationship between knowledge, skills and assessment. Student nurses are …
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Adaptação transcultural de um instrumento de avaliação do handicap auditivo para portadores de Perda Auditiva Induzida pelo Ruído Ocupacional
… transcultural de um instrumento de avaliação do handicap auditivo da sua língua original (inglês) para o português e avaliar a sua confiabilidade e validade a partir da aplicação do mesmo numa população de 43 trabalhadores com PAIRO. Após a seleção do instrumento a partir de pesquisas nas bases …
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Perceived disability in children and adults with single sided deafness at two tertiary institutions
… or near-normal hearing in the other ear. The handicap experienced by patients with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss is well known, but the consequences of single-sided deafness are often underestimated based on the assumption that a person with normal hearing in the contralateral ear is …
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An investigation of the-training offered to community-based rehabilitation workers with particular reference to the field of mental handicap in the Western Cape
… rehabilitation workers in the field of mental handicap to ascertain whether the training provided has been perceived as appropriate in assisting with their tasks and functions. Further investigation is done into the underlying theoretical approaches used in training, curricula designs, training …
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Changes in Tinnitus Perception Following Cochlear Implantation and Hearing Aid Use
… qualitative measures including the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory, the Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire, the Tinnitus Reaction Questionnaire, and the Tinnitus Questionnaire were used to obtain the data included. The questionnaires used were demonstrated to be valid in research. The results of …
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Assessment and treatment of dizzy patients in primary health care.
… as well as balance measures and self-perceived handicap because of dizziness. Patients with multisensory dizziness performed more poorly on the balance measures than the other groups. Subjects 66 years or older had more disturbances in balance, but lower level of self-perceived handicap. The …
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Criteri di valutazione medico-legale della narcolessia
… Medical Commissions making disability and handicap benefit decisions for people with narcolepsy, searching for correlations between the recognized disability degree and patients’ features; 2. the willingness to report patients to the driving licence authority; 3. possible sources of …
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Data analysis and simulation for warranties and golf handicaps
… management and the effectiveness of the golf handicap system. Despite the commonalities of the approaches, we will discuss these problems in turn. For many moderately high value items with a substantial sales volume (such as automobiles), a warranty is used as an important element of marketing …
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Examiner Bias and Intelligence Test Scoring : a Study of the Effect of Speech-Handicapped Responses on the Scoring of the WISC-R Comprehension Subtest
… variable in the research is an examinee's speech handicap and the effect it may produce in the scoring of an intelligence test.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>Identical responses to the Comprehension subtest of the <em>Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised </em>were audiotaped on separate …
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L'intégration des personnes handicapées ou voile de l'exclusion.
… sociale des personnes vivant avec un handicap physique au sein de la societe canadienne. Le cadre theorique de l'etude s'articule autour de concepts etroitement lies aux ecrits de Pierre Bourdieu et Max Weber soient ceux d'habitus, de reproduction sociale et de situation de classe. On …
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Parents' opinions regarding the value of homebased programs for preschool handicapped children
… which they were taught to teach their preschool handicapped children. The data in the study consisted of responses by forty selected parents on the Value of Program Instrument which was developed for the study using the definition of value as defined by Krathwohl, Bloom and Masia. Parents' …
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Weight transfer patterns between different skill levels and clubs in golf
… transfer patterns that exist between various handicap level golfers, and different golf clubs. Specifically, the Centre of Pressure was used to measure the weight transfer patterns of the golfers for three different clubs.
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Le processus de l'acceptation chez les blessés médullaires
… exploratoire se penche sur l'acceptation du handicap chez les blessés médullaires. Cinq (5) hommes et cinq (5) femmes blessés à la moelle épinière depuis plus de cinq (5) années, et qui avaient plus de dix-huit (18) ans au moment de l'accident traumatique, furent interviewés, de même …
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