Services for people with learning disabilities have been transformed since the late 1960s have been transformed since the late 1960s by the move from institutional to community by the move from institutional to community care. (Learning disabilities is the term care. (Learning disabilities is the term currently used in the UK in preference to currently used in the UK in preference to mental ret...

INTRODUCTION Many studies on cancer screening among adults with disabilities examined disability status only, which masks subgroup differences. We examined prevalence of receipt of cancer screening tests by disability status and type. METHODS We used 2013 National Health Interview Survey data to assess prevalence of 1) guideline-concordant mammography, Papanicolaou (Pap) tests, and endoscopy ...

Megan Kirshbaum, Ph.D and Rhoda Olkin, Ph.D. Through the Looking Glass, 2198 Sixth Street, Suite 100, Berkeley, CA 94710. (800) 644-2666 (voice); (800) 804-1616 (TTY); [email protected]; www.lookingglass.org Original manuscript below was published in: Sexuality and Disability, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2002, (pp. 65-80 in the original). The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com ...

People with intellectual disabilities have a higher prevalence of health problems than the general public, and their health needs are often unrecognised and unmet. People with intellectual and other disabilities are also more likely to develop secondary health conditions. Improving the health of people with disabilities during their lives is a specific aim of the HealthyPeople2010 initiative in...

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This article is based on the book eQuality: The Struggle for Web Accessibility by Persons with Cognitive Disabilities (2014, Cambridge University Press). It contends that the rights of individuals with cognitive disabilities to equal access to web content are not only protected under law, but may also be implemented and supported by current user-based, semantic and cloud technologies. Consisten...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to analyze the nature and cause of spinal disabilities among military and civil aircrew in India. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Studies suggest that military aircrew may be more prone than nonaviators to develop spinal disabilities. An in-depth analysis of such disabilities can enable policy makers to develop data-driven preventive health programs. Extensi...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine which factors on the Sensory Profile, a measure of children's responses to commonly occurring sensory experiences, best discriminate among children with autism or pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and children without disabilities. METHOD Data for three groups of children...