In vivo imaging techniques have indicated for many years that there is loss of white matter after human traumatic brain injury (TBI) and that the loss is inversely related to cognitive outcome. However, correlated, quantitative evidence for loss of neurons from either the cerebral cortex or the diencephalon is largely lacking. There is some evidence in models of TBI that neuronal loss occurs wi...

BACKGROUND In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), limited access to a range of supports means that families often carry primary responsibility for the care of a disabled child. The impact of this responsibility is poorly understood. OBJECTIVE To present a selective review, critique, and comparison of the prominent areas of research aimed at understanding families with disabled children ...

The objective of this study was to investigate the legitimacy of using the criterion of low reading achievement in the study of learning and memory skills in learning disabled children. The subjects were 60 students (35 non-disabled, 15 low reading, and 10 learning disabled) enrolled in grades 10-12 of a northern Colorado high school. A series of 13 tests of learning and memory was administered...

This DataView presents descriptive information on beneficiaries with disabilities in Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare data show that persons with disabilities have more functional limitations, poorer health status, lower incomes, and experience more barriers to health care than aged Medicare beneficiaries. Medicaid data reveal that significant growth in the Medicaid disabled population has led t...

Introduction In 1994, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had been engaged in sixteen countries on behalf of war amputees and other disabled. Among these countries, three new programmes have started in Iraq, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Whereas the programme of Colombia has been completed at the end of the year and handed over to the ICRC counterpart. During the year, 14,986 prosthes...

There are many examples of assistive devices for people with manipulative and locomotive disabilities. These devices enable disabled people perform many activities of daily living thus improving their quality of life. Disabled people are increasingly able to lead an independent life and play a more productive role in society. In the case of disabled children, such assistive devices have been sh...

The social model and social perspectives of disability are gaining increasing momentum within Australia. This identification of people as disabled by their environments rather than their impairment results in part in the identification of disabled people as a group marginalised and disenfranchised by the exclusions of societies and communities. Propelled by the social model, the disability move...

The urban geography of thirteenthand fourteenth-century Paris suggests that propertied Parisians placed poor young men who needed help in crossing the threshold to adulthood near the top of their list of poor people who were in need of charitable assistance. Indeed, only widows and other elderly unattached women outranked such boys. By 1342 Paris had ten shelters for poor unattached women and a...

Excerpt] Although it is now two decades since the United Nations’ International Year of Disabled People, disabled people across the world still encounter severe economic, cultural and social deprivations. The problem is generally worse for those living in rural areas and is especially acute for all disabled people living in low income states. Clearly, health and rehabilitation can no longer be ...