Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a problem frequently occurring among physically and intellectually disabled individuals. In this group of patients GERD is often overlooked, since the symptoms are usually non-specific. We present two cases of disabled children, who developed complications of GERD in the form of Barrett's esophagus, Barrett's ulceration and bleeding, the life-threatenin...

Proposed work basically depend on two systems 1). By Eye control: This is a method to guide and control the wheelchair for disabled people based on movement of eye. This concept can be used for people with loco-motor disabilities. The proposed system involves three stages: image detection, image processing and sending of control signals to wheelchair. The eye movement is detected using a head m...

In Hungary, rehabilitation of the physically disabled is carried out in separate5 specialized units, e.g. neurology, rheumatology, traumatology, orthopaedics, etc. …, each under a medical practitioner qualified in that particular section. Members of the staff engaged in these separate units meet in "The Hungarian Society for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled", which, in turn, has contact with ...

This paper presents a new gesture based approach for interactive ergonomics evaluation, and especially adaptation of physically disabled people’s workplaces. After a general survey of existing tools, we describe the requirements to perform ergonomic analysis for disabled persons by using a virtual reality approach. We specifically propose a framework unifying the synthesis and the analysis of a...

Evreinov Grigori, Evreinova Tatiana. "Breath-Joystick" – Graphical Manipulator for Physically Disabled Users. Computer Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP2000. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Helping People with Special Needs. . july 17-21, 2000, Karlsruhe, Germany. p.p. 193-200. Abstract The paper are devoted to investigation of possible ways of designing of al...

Locus of control in 13 nondisabled and 8 congenitally physically disabled adolescents was examined with the use of the Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children (Nowicki & Strickland, 1973a). All subjects with disabilities had IQs within normal limits, used wheelchairs, and could communicate verbally. The two groups were matched in IQ, age, sex, race, and socioeconomic status. It w...