We investigated the effect of sports activity on physically-disabled individuals using behavioral and electrophysiological techniques. Visual go/no-go discriminative and simple response tasks were used. Participants included 17 disabled athletes, 9 from open-skill (wheelchair basketball) and eight from closed-skill (swimming) sports, and 18 healthy non-athletes. Reaction times of the disabled a...

BACKGROUND Many patients with disability require orthodontic treatment (OT) to achieve adequate oral function and aesthetic appearance. The cooperation of disabled patients and of their parents is central to the success of OT, as treatment can involve ethical dilemmas. The aim of this study was to analyze the motivation, expectations and overall satisfaction with OT among parents of patients wi...

The purpose of this study vvas to clarify the application range and utility of an ADL illdex for disabled elderly peeple (Demura et al., 2000), by examining the ADL characteristics of an elderly population when this index was ftpplied to disabled and independent elderly people. Subjects ofthis study were 697 Japanese institutionalized disabled elderly people and 482 independent elderly people (...

Twenty-one years ago, when the Allies were preparing to land on the Normandy beaches, Parliament passed an Act which established the right of disabled men and women to work. Their services had proved invaluable in war, when man-power was short ; their interests were to be protected in peace. This year the Ministry of Labour is celebrating the twentyfirst anniversary of the passing of the 1944 D...

Estimating the Income Loss of Disabled Individuals: The Case of Spain In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker depends on a permanent and a transitory productivity gap and the model predicts that the wage gap will be lower after gaining so...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of obesity, and the risk factors associated with it, in physically disabled adults living in the city centre of Malatya, Turkey. METHOD This research was designed as a cross-sectional study conducted on physically disabled people aged 20-65 years living in the city centre of Malatya. The prevalence of obesity in disabled pe...

This study examined the impact of disability on the quality of life of disabled people in rural Bangladesh. A primary healthcare specialist conducted a door-to-door survey in two villages in Bangladesh to collect socioeconomic and demographic information on the villagers and for identification of disabled people. Information on disability and how it affected their life was also obtained either ...

In this study, I question whether social enterprise can significantly help work integration of persons with disabilities (or PWDs). Particularly, I analyze the case of Korea which recently passed a bill (or Social Enterprise Support Law, SESL) setting the disabled as one of four target groups. Unlike former state-led policies, not all but some cases showed that social enterprises can create num...