Friendship is a very important component in human lives, but it is difficult for children with disabilities to make friends with their typical peers. This study investigated quality of play behaviors in friendships between children with and without disabilities and analyzed how typical peers perceive friendships with children with disabilities. Fifteen pairs of children with and without disabil...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 launched a new era for individuals with disabilities. This law, considered by many to be the Civil Rights Act for people with disabilities, prohibits employment discrimination and generally requires equal access for individuals with disabilities (O’Day, Schartz, & Blanck, 2002). The prior special issue, 20(6), of Behavioral Sciences and the Law ...

BACKGROUND It has been well established that increasing age is associated with decreasing functional ability in older adults. It is important to understand the specific factors that affect instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) and functional independence among older adults with sensory disabilities. METHODS Nationally representative sample of adults aged 55 years and older with seein...

BACKGROUND Persons with disabilities continue to be excluded from professions in South Africa despite legislation on non-discrimination and equity. OBJECTIVES We sought to identify both the opportunities and obstacles that students with disabilities face in professional degrees. METHOD Selected texts from the South African and international literature were analysed and synthesised. RESULT...

OBJECTIVE To explore the concepts of quality of life (QOL), quality of care (QOC), and attitudes toward disabilities in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from the perspective of people living with disabilities, including their relatives and caregivers. METHODS This was a qualitative study that interviewed a total of 23 participants in five focus groups, during May-August 2006. After an open discussion ab...

The purpose of this study was to compare social and environmental historical and contextual risk factors between prisoners with intellectual disabilities and those without intellectual disabilities, and to investigate whether prisoners with intellectual disabilities were more likely to be placed on remand in prison (awaiting trial or sentencing) compared to those without intellectual disabiliti...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to quantify levels of violence and discrimination among people with disabilities and analyze the effects of gender and the type and degree of disability. METHODS The study analyzed data on self-reported violence and discrimination from a Danish national survey of 18,019 citizens, of whom 4519 reported a physical disability and 1398 reported a mental disabil...

BACKGROUND Because of the problems measuring subjective well-being in people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities, there are no studies to date which explore the factors contributing to the subjective well-being in these groups. We wanted to explore the client and service characteristics contributing to the subjective well-being of persons with severe and profound intellectual dis...

INTRODUCTION The socio-economic circumstances and health of people with disabilities has been relatively ignored in public health research, policy and practice in Australia and internationally. This is despite emerging evidence that the socio-economic circumstances that people with disabilities live in contributes to their poorer health. Compared to other developed countries, Australians with d...

background: the studies have indicated that inter marriage would increases the frequency of congenital disabilities compared with non-inter marriages. it seems that in our country inter marriage is one of the most important factors for disabilities in infants. this research was conducted to compare the relative frequency of congenital disabilities with type of marriage in jiroft city, which has...