This presentation focuses on the process for initial evaluation of students with speech-language impairment. An involves use a variety assessment tools and strategies to gather relevant functional, developmental, academic information assist in determining if child is eligible special education services. There three-pronged question eligibility: (1) whether student disability by reason thereof, ...

a study has been carried out in 1992 to determine the incidence mortality and disability due to accidents and injuries in more than seven hundred thousand population under the coverage of health houses in east azerbaijan province, northwest of iran. this study showed that burns, falls, road accidents and those related to agricultural and other equipments are the main types of accidents. road ac...

It is common to evaluate a set of items by soliciting people rate them. For example, universities ask students the teaching quality their instructors, and conference organizers authors submissions reviews. However, in these applications, often give higher rating course if they receive grades course, reviews papers are accepted conference. In this work, we call external factors "outcome" experie...

Occupational therapists, as well as other rehabilitation professionals, are aware that sexuality counseling is an important aspect of rehabilitation. However, occupational therapists have limited resources within their profession for training in this area. This paper describes the development, philosophy, goals, objectives, and format of the module "Sexuality and Disability" offered to occupati...

The mortality of children with a birthweight of less than 1500g or with a gestational age of less than 32 weeks (<1500<32) has decreased significantly in the last 20 years or so. Given the higher risk of disability in these children, follow-up after hospital discharge is considered essential. In this document, the Follow-Up Group of the Spanish Society of Neonatology, in collaboration with the ...

Muscle disorders are a common cause of disability in horses. For many years, clinical manifestations such as muscle pain, exercise intolerance, weakness, and stiffness were believed to be caused by a single syndrome. However, in the past years a broad spectrum of muscle disorders have been recognized including glycogen and polysaccharide storage myopathies, malignant hyperthermia, mitochondrial...

This study examine the relationship of biographical and case history data thought to be associated with malingering to known indices of malingering based on MMPI and sentence-completion test data. Subjects were 65 patients who had undergone formal psychiatric evaluations in connection with ongoing litigation over injury-related disability. Biographical/case history data were reduced to six fact...

BACKGROUND In social insurance, the evaluation of work disability is becoming stricter as priority is given to the resumption of work, which calls for a guarantee of quality for these evaluations. Evidence-based guidelines have become a major instrument in the quality control of health care, and the quality of these guidelines' development can be assessed using the AGREE instrument. In social i...

Providing timely and accurate medical evaluation information is a challenge in the health care industry. Companies providing medical assessments in this industry are utilizing technology to meet this challenge and to continuously improve performance and functionality. Physician acceptance is a critical factor for successful medical assessment system implementations. This research in progress pa...

OBJECTIVES To describe the social participation frequency and the physical disability of patients who were discharged after the multidrug therapy (MDT/WHO) and factors associated with these variables. METHOD A cross-sectional and analytical study, examining associations, which took place Nova Iguaçu/Brazil. A random sample of patients treated with multidrug therapy from 1997 to 2006 was selec...