Katz (1978) has suggested that mild, fluctuating conductive hearing loss due to middle-ear anomalies may account for the language and attention problems of learning-disabled children. His position was extended here to include autism. Normal, learning-disabled, and autistic children received repeated impedance measures over 5 weeks. A repeated-measures ANOVA of central tendency and variability v...

Developing accessible Websites is essential to enable disabled people to have access to content and day-to-day services. Although accessibility guidelines can help identify some accessibility problems, the evaluation of Websites by disabled users is the best method to identify real problems encountered by users. Such problems are not always identified by means of reviewing technical guidelines....

THE 1959 Mental Health Act emphasises the need to integrate psychiatric patients with the community at large rather than to isolate them from it, as hitherto. This identification with the normal community has been the Ministry of Labour's approach to the employment of disabled people since the time of the Disabled Persons (Employment) <4ct of 1944. For the past 17 years all disabled people, whe...

This article examines differences in access and use of care among children on Medicaid with physical disabilities, mental illness, and mental retardation/development disabilities (MR/DD) in New York City (NYC). We use 1999 and 2000 survey data obtained from the parents of a random sample of disabled children on Medicaid to conduct both descriptive and multivariate analyses. We find that the Med...

In this International Year of Disabled People it is important for medical practitioners to know about adaptations available for disabled drivers so that they may suggest suitably modified vehicles to those of their patients who need them. The ability to drive a motor car can radically alter the quality of life led by disabled people as inability to drive causes brooding and frustration when the...

The current study aims at the comparative analysis of the religious copping, optimism, and social physique anxiety&nbsp;between the disabled and the normal people.&nbsp; As for the methodology of this comparative analysis, 60 Gorgani people, 30 disabled and 30 normal people, were chosen through systematic&nbsp;random sampling in 1395 taken from the names of those disabled who were registered in...

Three million persons under age 65 are entitled to Medicare because of disability. This study examines their Medicare use and mortality. Disabled enrollees had higher health care use and mortality than comparison groups of Medicare's aged enrollees or of the general population under age 65. One type of disabled enrollee, adults disabled as children (over one-half of whom are mentally retarded) ...

This highlight describes the characteristics and inpatient utilization of under age 65 disabled California Medicare beneficiaries by dual eligible status (i.e., Medicaid State buy-in coverage or not). More disabled dually eligible beneficiaries are younger, non-White, and in fee-for-service (FFS) than non-dually eligible beneficiaries. Disabled dually eligible beneficiaries experienced consiste...

Disabled children are known to fare worse in terms of educational attainment during their school years, with subsequent consequences for their later transitions and adult outcomes. But despite the acknowledged importance of the early years in children’s later outcomes, we know relatively little about when disabled children’s educational problems emerge or how they develop in young childhood. In...