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Showing 1 to 20 of 172 for “"mental disabilities"”.
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Comparison of enclave and individual employment of individuals with mental disabilities within college grounds departments
… two enclaves or work crews of individuals with mental disabilities (MD) as an integral part of its landscape maintenance program. Each enclave has five IMD and a supervisor that are involved in litter control, leaf removal, weeding, and snow removal. This method of employment has provided …
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Socialinio darbuotojo veiklos turinys, dirbant su psichikos negalią turinčiais asmenimis /
… in the practice of social work with people with mental disabilities, social workers face the problem of providing social services - mentally disabled clients who receive social services feel the need for social services not defined in the legal acts. In this context, it is crucial to analyze what …
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Community based mental health care: a necessity for realising the right to independent living and community inclusion of persons with mental disabilities in Uganda
… advocates for the provision of community based mental health care as a key strategy in promoting the realisation of the right to independent living and community inclusion for persons with mental disabilities (PWMDs) in Uganda. Uganda ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of …
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Mental Disorders And Inequality In The United States: Intersection Of Race, Gender, And Disability On Employment And Income
… research has shown that individuals with mental disorders experience inequality when looking at income, wages, and poverty in the United States. Still, there has been a dearth of literature exploring how individuals with mental disorders fare economically when exploring multiple …
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Tinjuan hukum Islam terhadap perkawinan penyandang cacat mental
… dengan kondisi orang penyandang cacat mental, yang tidak sempurna akalnya seperti manusia normal pada umumnya. Kelemahan akal atau cara berpikirnya yang lamban menjadikan kendala untuk melakukan aktifitasnya sehari-hari. Walaupun demikian mereka juga punya hak dan punya hasrat …
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Indiana Special Olympics and Its Portrayals of People with Intellectual Disabilities, 1969-1989
… change society’s negative views of people with mental disabilities by increasing public awareness and societal inclusion of such individuals. In this effort, how ISO depicted people with mental disabilities had significance. This thesis explores ISO’s growth from 1969 to 1989 and argues that ISO …
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The Relationships Among Disability Type, Religious Orientation, Awareness and Accommodation Type and Perceived Reasonableness of Accommodation
… among disability type (physical versus mental), religious orientation, awareness of disability issues and accommodation type and perceptions of the reasonableness of specific accommodations. One hundred seventy seven introductory psychology students (87 men and 90 women) participated in …
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Service animals and emotional support animals: a distinction that privileges physical disabilities over mental and emotional disabilities
… against people who use animals for mental and emotional support, rather than for physical assistance. Using available research, media coverage, and legislation in the United States and Canada, this paper argues that handlers of emotional support animals (ESAs) are discriminated …
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‘Presume Not That I am the Thing I Was’: Altering Perceptions of the Disabled via the Staging of Disability in Early Modern England
<p>Attitudes toward people with physical or mental disabilities have varied throughout history. Each society collectively defines what is considered normal and abnormal, and those values change over time. Many cultural factors impact how much these views change, including the dominant social …
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Práce s rizikem v pobytových zařízeních sociálních služeb
… it the need to defend the rights of people with disabilities, with an emphasis on their active involvement in everyday life, in seeking the opportunity to experience those situations that define this life. This focus brings a number of theoretical solutions for risk planning with respect to …
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The role of old women in Zulu culture : with special reference to three tribes in the district of Nkandla
… The aged tend to suffer from physical or mental disabilities which are unpleasant to contemplate; death is imminent; and the role of the aged in culture is ostensibly less distinctive than that of younger men and women.
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An assessment of the Local Government Support to Children with Mental and Hearing Disabilities in Songea Municipality Primary Schools
… the Local Government’s support to children with mental and hearing disabilities in Songea Municipality Primary Schools in Tanzania. Specifically, it explored the type of support received by the children, examined the needs of the children enrolled in primary schools and assessed stakeholder’s …
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An Assessment of the Local Government Support to Children with Mental and Hearing Disabilities in Songea Municipality Primary Schools
… the Local Government’s support to children with mental and hearing disabilities in Songea Municipality Primary Schools in Tanzania. Specifically, it explored the type of support received by the children, examined the needs of the children enrolled in primary schools and assessed stakeholder’s …
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The Eugenic Origins of Indiana's Muscatatuck Colony: 1920-2005
… socially. While the United States established mental institutions prior to the eugenics movement, many institutions, including ones in Indiana, were founded as eugenic tools to advance the agenda of achieving a “purer” society. Muscatatuck was one such state institution founded during this …
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Determining Kanban Size Using Mathematical Programming and Discrete Event Simulation for a Manufacturing System with Large Production Variability
… Beach rehabilitation center for those with mental disabilities or recovering from addiction that has several manufacturing processes, as a test bed sing mathematical programming and discrete event simulation models to determine 2 the Kanban size empirically. Results from the validated …
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Essays on the economics of education and health
… largest increase in SE placement. Using instrumental variables analysis and a panel of student data from Chicago Public Schools, I find that SE placement in elementary school reduces the probability of dropping out of high school and absenteeism for the marginal low-achieving student, while …
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Increase Access to Healthcare and Decrease Health Disparities
… seniors, and persons with physical and mental disabilities, including the homeless in the Tenderloin District. I will be increasing the clinic’s volunteer and patient awareness and provide the information needed to participate in the program that will lead to increase healthcare access, …
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Articulating a Vision: A Case of Study of Democracy, Education, and Prisoner Rehabilitation in a Day Reporting Center
… into society, especially those with physical and mental disabilities. One support service that is being taken into consideration is the Day Reporting Center. Day Reporting Centers are highly structured nonresidential programs. Parolees report to the center on a daily basis, submit to drug tests, …
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Assessing accessibility in environmental education with an emphasis on the d/Deaf and hard of hearing community
… been studied less within the scope of environmental education (EE). Accessibility can be defined differently when considering EE and nature-based experiences. The first is in the sense that it can be accessed (location, safety, necessary amenities, etc.), and the other defining factor focuses …
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