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Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, Feb. 26
A Settings and Systems Approach to Promoting the Health and Wellbeing of People with an Intellectual…
1. IntroductionDue to different measurement criteria that have changed over time and different interpretations of classifications, precise estimates of the number of people with an intellectual disability are difficult to determine…
JCM | Free Full-Text | Waist Circumference and Body Mass Index as Predictors of Disability…
1. IntroductionMultiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common immune-mediated, inflammatory demyelinating condition of the central nervous system (CNS), characterized by progressive neurodegeneration, gliosis, and neuroinflammation . Common…
Global Down Syndrome Foundation Applauds House Energy & Commerce Committee for Advancing…
Denver, CO, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Down Syndrome Foundation (GLOBAL) praised the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee for approving the DeOndra Dixon INCLUDE Project Act of 2024 (H.R. 7406), which would…
Hispanic heritage, disability inclusion featured in NIEHS talks (Environmental Factor, November…
Enhancing professional opportunities for Hispanic individuals across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and removing barriers for disabled employees were some of the issues addressed during two recent talks in the NIEHS Diversity…
Governor’s Council on Disability announces winners for 2023 annual recognition awards
Winners exemplify standards of excellence in enhancing life for individuals living with disabilities
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Governor's Council on Disability (GCD) has selected the award winner and honorable mention of the 32nd Annual…
The Healthcare and Societal Costs of Familial Intellectual Disability
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(3), 299; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21030299 (registering DOI)
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Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, Feb. 27
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, Feb. 25
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | Traversing Disability: Employers’ Perspectives of Disability…
1. IntroductionWhile employers continually seek to diversify their workforces and acknowledge the benefits of employing persons with disabilities, the ways in which employers can ensure sustainability require attention. A diverse…
Telehealth Intervention: A Proposal for a Telemedicine Manual to Ascertain the Civil Disability…
1. IntroductionTelemedicine enables the provision of healthcare services at distance through the use of the latest-generation technologies. It is utilized in situations where healthcare professionals and patients are not in the same…
GACEC Hosts Celebration for Disability History and Awareness Month Poster Contest – State of…
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Findings from a global analysis: Disability disaggregated data in disaster risk reduction
The global push to weave disability inclusion into governmental strategies, disaster risk reduction (DRR) plans, and humanitarian efforts has seen notable progress in recent years. Yet, the lack of detailed data on the prevalence of…
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, Feb. 18
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | Traversing Disability: Building Social Capital through Skill…
1. IntroductionPersons with disabilities have historically faced pervasive inaccessibility that has perpetuated their exclusion from community participation . Responses to the issue of disability include the segregation of individuals…
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | A Scoping Review of Empirical Literature on People with Intellectual…
1. IntroductionAccording to Maulik et al. , the highest prevalence of people with an intellectual disability (ID) are seen in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Authors and researchers have continuously noted the scarcity of…
Use of General Health Examination and Cancer Screening among People with Disability Who Need Support…
4.2. Association between Disability and Preventive Healthcare Service Use in JapanOur study showed that disability was a significantly associated factor for non-participation in GHE and the screening of gastric, colorectal, breast and…
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, Feb. 13
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | Behavior Problems among Children of Mothers with Mild Intellectual…
Parents with intellectual disability (ID) and their children constitute a joint high-risk group: the parents are at risk of caregiving difficulties, the children for behavior problems, and the families for child out-of-home placements .…
Allsup Celebrates 40 Years Of Leadership & Innovation For American Workers, Employers
Belleville, Illinois, Feb. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Allsup LLC is excited to commemorate 40 years of making a difference through its leadership and innovation in the creation of new services and solutions for American workers and…
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | Conceptual Models of Disability: The Development of the…
The third generation of conceptual models (Table 3) has a common origin in the reform process of the ICIDH. They generally represent a paradigm shift and do not include the classical, linear disablement process , yet are quite different…
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, Feb. 11
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | Describing the Function, Disability, and Health of Adults and Older…
1. IntroductionThe novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first reported in December 2019, spread globally, and was declared a global pandemic in March 2020 . Many jurisdictions introduced restrictions to reduce virus…
NYSIF Accelerates Workers’ Compensation & Disability Benefit Payments to Injured Workers
New York, NY, Feb. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF), the state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer, announced the results of its 18-month-long effort to bolster enrollment in direct deposit…
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | The Role of Shared Resilience in Building Employment Pathways with…
3.1. ‘Don’t Worry, Mate, Get on with Your Job’: Social Stigma, Employer Confidence, and Open Employment Funding ChallengesI don’t want to stay here the rest of my life. I want to go out there in employment and socialise and talk to…
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, Jan. 29
UNDRR internal policy on disability accessibility and inclusion
The UNDRR internal policy on disability accessibility and inclusion outlines the guiding principles, scope and areas of work to ensure that the organization’s operations and programmes meet these commitments. An ambitious disability…
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | Applying the ‘Human Rights Model of Disability’ to Informed Consent:…
Demographic changes occurring across the European Union mean that, by 2050, the population aged 65 years or more will increase to almost 130 million (p. 16). By 2070, it is estimated that 30% of the European population will be aged 65…
Veterans’ Income, VA Disability Ratings Spotlighted In Federal Study, Allsup Reports
Belleville, Illinois, Jan. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has brought to light significant disparities in the earnings and personal income of working-age veterans with VA…
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | The Involvement of Athletes with Intellectual Disability in…
1. IntroductionWorld-wide, people with intellectual disabilities (ID) experience social exclusion in different aspects of their life—education, employment, housing and leisure pursuits. Moreover, they often remain the most marginalised…
Disability Inclusion at the 100th Consumer Electronics Show (CES) – World Institute on…
In CES's 100th year, Disability Inclusion took center stage!
WID again had the privilege of attending the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) as part of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)…
The Effect of Disability and Social Determinants of Health on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screenings…
LaShae D. Rolle, MPH1; Maurice J. Chery, MD1; Michaela Larson, MPH1; Melissa Lopez-Pentecost, PhD2; Carmen J. Calfa, MD2; Matthew P. Schlumbrecht, MD2,3; Tracy E. Crane, PhD1,2 (View author affiliations)
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Sublease Offices at the Ed Roberts Campus – World Institute on Disability – Inergency
Directly above the Ashby BART Station, the new Ed Roberts Campus (ERC) is a light-filled, architectural award-winning, highly accessible to people with disabilities, two-story building on bus lines and near Berkeley Bowl.…
Sublease Offices at the Ed Roberts Campus – World Institute on Disability
Directly above the Ashby BART Station, the new Ed Roberts Campus (ERC) is a light-filled, architectural award-winning, highly accessible to people with disabilities, two-story building on bus lines and near…
Disability Inclusive Workforce Policy Learning Collaborative – National Governors Association
As Governors work to confront an extremely tight labor market, efforts to reduce barriers to workforce participation are increasingly critical for developing a skilled workforce and filling in-demand jobs. This…
The effect of city size on the disability rate of the older adults: empirical evidence from CHARLS…
1. Introduction
Under the guidance of the national strategy of actively coping with population aging, the rapid population gathering in cities, on the one hand, meets the inevitable requirements of economic and social development and,…
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | Organizations’ Perspectives on Successful Aging with Long-Term…
1. IntroductionCountries all around the are grappling with how to adapt to meet the needs of an aging population. Within this context, there has been considerable discussion surrounding what it means to age successfully, and what…
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, Sept. 18, 2023
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | Living through the Pandemic with a Disability: A Longitudinal…
1. IntroductionWhen the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic in March 2020, governments around the world imposed preventive measures to avoid the spread of the COVID-19 virus. In Canada, the government implemented public…
Effect of Training for an Athletic Challenge on Illness Cognition in Individuals with Chronic…
1. IntroductionWhen individuals acquire a severe chronic disease, such as spinal cord injury (SCI), they are faced with life-long physical health consequences. In addition, life satisfaction is reduced and mental health problems are…
JPM | Free Full-Text | Shoulder Pain and Disability Scores and the Factors Influencing Them among…
1. IntroductionOrthopedic surgeons’ rate of shoulder dysfunction might differ due to various factors, such as age, surgical specialization, volume and type of procedures performed, and ergonomic practices . Due to the physically…
Healthcare | Free Full-Text | Sexual Disability in Low Back Pain: Diagnostic and Therapeutic…
3.4.1. “Standard Physical Therapy” PathwayThis pathway concerns the management of LBP-related sexual disability in the absence of relevant psychosocial or pathological issues. Therefore, this category includes symptomatic conditions…
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution
Exhibit: A Camp, a Campus, and a Disability Revolution, Sept. 13
Brain Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 26: Efficacy of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Pain Level…
Brain Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 26: Efficacy of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Pain Level and Disability of Patients with Fibromyalgia: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials with Parallel-Group Design
Brain…
New SSA Commissioner Faces Unprecedented Disability Applications Backlog, Allsup Explains
Belleville, Illinois, Dec. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Newly appointed Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Martin O’Malley will encounter an urgent situation with the Social Security disability claims backlog of more…
Disabilities | Free Full-Text | “Giving the People Who Use the Service a Voice”: Student Experiences…
1. IntroductionIn recent years, there has been a greater focus (with regards to research, policy, and practice) on the accessibility of Higher Education. Despite this, disabled students experience significant barriers in their learning…
El Salvador recognizes L.A. County-based nonprofit for disability advocacy
Agoura Hills, CA, Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In recognition for its work in eliminating physical, social and emotional barriers for people living with disability, Joni and Friends, an international disability ministry that…
Income of Working-Age Veterans Receiving Disability Compensation
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) compensates veterans for medical conditions or injuries that occurred or worsened while they were on active duty in the military. In fiscal year 2022, VA spent $125 billion (in 2022 dollars) on…
Prevent Injury and Disability from Falls: Fall Prevention Awareness Week is September 18-22, 2023…
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