Handicap International

Field experience of Handicap International

Even if around 180 million people suffer from lymphoedema worldwide (Casley-Smith et al, 1997), its impact as a public health problem is underestimated. The main reason for this being the lack of epidemiology. Both in developed and developing countries, the prevalence and incidence of lymphoedema is unknown. In developing countries, lymphatic filariasis (LF) is seen as the major cause of lympho...

Evaluation of Hearing Handicap

The American Academy of Otolaryngology and American Council of Otolaryngology (AAOACO) define hearing handicap as a disability to understand sentences under everyday vocal and listening conditions, and describe procedures for its estimation from pure-tone threshold hearing levels . Research now reveals that the AAO-ACO procedures underestimate measured hearing handicap by the equivalent of aver...

Combating Social Handicap

Report on a group of parents with handicapped children who came together to organise activities to overcome their childrens' lack of social education.

Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI).

Editorial: Hearing Handicap

T his issue of JAAA provides a unique opportunity to compare two quite different approaches to the study of auditory handicap . It is usually assumed that handicap is overcome in proportion to improvement in speech understanding. The problem has been how to measure speech understanding in the hearing impaired . What kinds of speech materials should be used? How should they be presented? And wha...