The present literature review identified 29 reports from 22 countries in Asia, Africa and Central America reporting on the outcomes of rehabilitation-in-the-community programmes in low and middle income countries published between 1987 and 2007. Interventions included home visits by trained community workers who taught disabled persons skills to carry out activities of daily living, encouraged ...

As 1974 began, the Social Security Administration started distributing supplemental security income (SSI) payment checks to aged, blind, and disabled poor persons throughout the Nation. Shortly before the first SSI checks were issued, the Bureau of the Census completed personal interviews with 17,551 individuals from which SSI's clientele would be drawn--aged and disabled welfare recipients and...

Various surveys conducted by the Social Security Administration have provided national estimates of the prevalence of work disability among the adult population. In the 1972 survey, the most recent, approximately 7.4 million persons, or 7 percent of the civilian noninstitutionalized population aged 20-64, reported severe disability, defined as the inability to work at all or the inability to wo...

MULTIMODAL INTERFACE FOR DISABLED PERSONS S.A. Chhabria and R.V. Dharaskar Department of Computer Science and Engineering, G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur. E-mail: [email protected] Assistive robots have the potential to provide disabled people with effective ways to alleviate the impact of their limitations, by compensating for their specific impairments. In particular, r...

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the desire of the parents who had a chronically disabled child to have other children and to investigate the effect of having a disabled child on the relationship of the parents. MATERIAL AND METHODS The families of 145 chronically disabled children were included in the study. After the sociodemographic information belonging to the child and family wer...

The medical history of a 16-year-old severely handicapped girl and the social history of her family are traced, with particular emphasis on the extent to which the handicap affected each member of the family. The role of the general practitioner is also highlighted.

BACKGROUND Although the need for early identification and interventions of disabilities is evident, the current state of routine screening practice in Kenya needs intensive training of screeners before more rigorous techniques are introduced. OBJECTIVE To compare the precision and practical utility of the 'ten questions' and EARC screens among the 2- 9 year olds in a community setting. METH...

The 1972 survey of the disabled and nondisabled provides comparative data on the two groups that can be used to assess the effects of disability on the family structure. Although the disabled were about as likely to have married as persons in the general population, the stability of their marriages was more limited. The extended families of disabled persons generally provided no greater support...