background: to evaluate the patients with stroke by functional independence measure (fim) scale, at the times of admission to hospital, discharge, and six-month poststroke, and to determine the level of improvement in patients after rehabilitative procedures. methods: a total number of 108 patients with stroke entered the study who were admitted to neurology ward. they all received rehabilitati...

Effects of inclusive school settings for students in six Indiana school corporations were investigated. Results reveal that students without disabilities educated in inclusive settings made significantly greater academic progress in mathematics and reading. For students with disabilities, there were no significant differences in reading and math achievement across the comparison groups. However...

BACKGROUND Gender difference and life-course socioeconomic inequalities in functional disability may exist among older adults. However, the association is less well understood among Chinese older population. The objective is to provide empirical evidences on this issue by exploring the association between gender, childhood and adult socioeconomic inequalities in functional disability. METHODS...

BACKGROUND WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) is a feasible tool for assessing functional disability and analysing the risk of institutionalisation among elderly patients with dementia. However, the data for the effect of education on disability status in patients with dementia is lacking. The aim of this large-scale, population-based study was to analyse the effect of educatio...

conclusions kannada children with rd were particularly poor on simultaneous and successive processing. our results support the heterogeneity view of rd. results independent-samples t tests (two-tailed) showed significant difference between the groups on all the pass component subtests. the pass scores of children with rd were scattered unevenly around the average to well below the average range...

IN 2009, the National Network for Learning Disability Nurses (NNLDN) conference was challenged to ensure that the poor standards of care highlighted in reports from the Health Care Commission (2006), the Disability Rights Commission (2006) and Death by Indifference report (Mencap 2007) were never repeated. Much of the poor care that exists stems from institutional discrimination, complacency an...

Reading disability (dyslexia) is introduced as a failure in learning to optimize the coordination of the subfunctions involved in reading with the consequence of errors or delays in integrating reading related information represented in working memory (Functional Coordination Deficit model). Within this multicausal model, so-called reversal errors, such as those typically found in beginning rea...

To examine cognitive differences among adults with differing developmental disorders, a comparison of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revisedprofiles was made with samples of 35 individuals with high-functioning autism (HFA) and 102 individuals with adult learning disability (LD). All participants had Verbal andPerformance IQ scores of 70 or higher. The LD group was divided into 3 subtypes ba...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether people with learning disability in the UK have poorer access to cancer screening. DESIGN Four cohort studies comparing people with and without learning disability, within the recommended age ranges for cancer screening in the UK. We used Poisson regression to determine relative incidence rates of cancer screening. SETTING The Health Improvement Network, a UK pri...