A study of the difficulties that can arise in a family with a mentally handicapped child and brothers or sisters who are normal.

Even if around 180 million people suffer from lymphoedema worldwide (Casley-Smith et al, 1997), its impact as a public health problem is underestimated. The main reason for this being the lack of epidemiology. Both in developed and developing countries, the prevalence and incidence of lymphoedema is unknown. In developing countries, lymphatic filariasis (LF) is seen as the major cause of lympho...

Hearing-impaired listeners with similar hearing losses may differ widely in their ability to understand speech in noise. Such individual susceptibility to noise may explain why patients obtain varying degrees of benefit from hearing aids. The chief purpose of this study was to determine if adaptive measures of unaided speech recognition in noise were related to hearing aid benefit. Additionally...

Because of many features of handicap, such as the number of actors and interactions, the complexity of the field, handicap must be considered from a system point of view, and dealt with as any system. That makes it possible to build a comprehensive response to the question of the inclusion and full citizenship of people with disabilities, better than some fragmentary solutions often proposed. T...

INTRODUCTION The Voice Handicap Index has been shown to be a valid instrument for assessing self-perceived handicap associated with dysphonia. OBJECTIVES To test the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the VHI-30 (Voice Handicap Index) and its shortened version VHI-10. SUBJECTS AND METHOD The original VHI-30 was translated into Spanish and was completed by 232 dysphonic patien...

This investigation examined the relations among hearing loss, handicap perception, and functional health status of 152 African American and Caucasian American seniors ranging in age from 60 to 89 years. Subjective measures were obtained from self-report scores on the Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly (HHIE), the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), and demog...

L’arthropathie acromioclaviculaire est une pathologie douloureuse de la ceinture scapulaire, peu souvent diagnostiquée chez les sportifs et pouvant provoquer un handicap sévère. Le diagnostic précoce peut améliorer le pronostic fonctionnel en réduisant nombre d’athlètes qui doivent abandonner définitivement compétition. Les auteurs présentent cas d’arthropathie initialement traité comme coiffe ...

The need to study a wide range of attributes and functions when assessing a disabled child has long been recognised. The concept of the multidisciplinary investigation of children with behaviour disorders led to the opening of child guidance clinics first in the United States and then in this country in the 1920s. Paediatricians in the 1940s and 1950s were able to pay more attention to the comp...

Many severely mentally handicapped people have a life expectancy less than the normal. Cases of Down's syndrome, for example, aged over 60 are rare. Long-stay hospitals for mental handicap contain a relatively small proportion of residents aged 60 and over. In a hospital for mental handicap, therefore, the age at death should have a wide distribution. At Meanwood Park Hospital, Leeds, a typical...

OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence of dysphagia (defined as the inability to manage a diet of normal consistencies) at hospital discharge and beyond 1 year postsurgery and examine the impact of persistent dysphagia on levels of disability, handicap, and well-being in patients. DESIGN Retrospective review and patient contact. SETTING Adult acute care tertiary hospital. PATIENTS The stud...