Sensory impairments
An intervention designed to improve sensory impairments in the elderly and indoor lighting in their homes: an exploratory randomized controlled trial
... their sensory impairments themselves; they need close assistance and help to see a specialist and to improve the indoor lighting conditions in their ...
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Sensory impairments in community health care: a descriptive study of hearing and vision among elderly Norwegians living at home
... and data collection. This instrument consists of 110 open and standardized questions designed to reveal the subject’s assessment of their sensory impairments. The KAS-Screen provides information about the ...
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Experiences of Austrian mothers with mobility or sensory impairments during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium: a qualitative study
... disability and indicated lack of effective communication and deficient resources in a recent qualitative study [13]. Article 23 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Per- sons with Disabilities states that parties to the ...
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Comparing Behavioral-Emotional Difficulties in Siblings of Children with and without Sensory Impairments
... Methods: The statistical population of this causal-comparative research included all siblings of children with and without SI in Shiraz, southern Iran in 2016. The sample consisted of ninety-one siblings of children with ...
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Examining the inclusion of people with sensory impairments from black and minority ethnic groups into the labour market
... The patterning of discrimination and its impact on different minority ethnic populations has a direct effect on people with sensory impairments from those populations. Not only are unemployment rates higher ...
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Responding to Diversity A Study of the Commissioning of Services for People of Black and Minority Ethnic Origin with Physical Disabilities and/or Sensory Impairments, Aged 18-64 Years
... The great majority of the initiatives for ethnic-specific schemes are dependent on short-term-funding sources. Some authorities are more entrepreneurial than others in accessing these sources. However, very few appear to ...
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Assessment and rehabilitation of central sensory impairments for balance in mTBI using auditory biofeedback: a randomized clinical trial
... [14–17]. Sensory information from the vestibular, visual, and somatosensory systems are inte- grated in the central nervous system to control static and dynamic balance ...
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Global Burden of Childhood Epilepsy, Intellectual Disability, and Sensory Impairments
... Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 6 the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 8 the World Bank Group, 5 and, more recently, the US Agency for International Development, 9 ...
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Health care utilisation amongst older adults with sensory and cognitive impairments in Europe
... and sensory impairments with no regular physical activity will tend to use more health care than people with only one or with none of these impair- ments in order to partly compensate for the higher ...
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Determining the interviewer effect on CQ Index outcomes: a multilevel approach
... While several suggestions have been made to over- come these problems [24,26,27], little is known about how to prevent interviewer effects in face-to-face inter- views with elderly [28]. It is known that the quality of ...
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Enabling the classroom and the curriculum: higher education, literary studies and disability
... perspective, impairments are necessarily negative: they must be improved, cured, or else eliminated altogether; they certainly cannot contribute to the positive subjectivity in which this paper culminates ...
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Haptic wearables as sensory replacement, sensory augmentation and trainer - a review
... Sensory impairments decrease quality of life and can slow or hinder ...as sensory replacement; partial impairment, as is common in rehabilitation, involves haptics as sensory augmentation; and ...
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Breaking the silence : institutional responses to people who use atypical communication strategies
... In relation to people with severe expressive communication impairments, which are typically 'secondary' impairments associated with primary diagnoses such as cerebral palsy or stroke, [r] ...
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"A Million Dollars and an Apology": Prostitution and Public Benefit Claims
... compensable impairments was enacted in 1994, which excluded impairments to which alcoholism or drug addiction would be a "contributing factor material to [agency[r] ...
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What is the effect of sensory discrimination training on chronic low back pain? A systematic review
... Blinding of (1) the subjects and (2) the therapists has not been realized in any of the included studies [15, 16, 20, 37– 39]. Other measures to control for the risk of bias are poorly described, such as random ...
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Performance of Kenyan Athletes With Physical Impairments on Classification Activity Limitation Tests For Running Events and Related Influencing Contextual Factors
... Paralympic classification, research has developed a suitable and objective basis for evidence based classification in the measurement of muscle strength. Beckman, Newcombe, Vanlandewijck, Connick and Tweedy (2011) have ...
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Reliability of measures of impairments associated with patellofemoral pain syndrome
... physical impairments is not known. Moreover, the SEM has several properties that make it an attractive statistic for determining clinically meaningful change. First, the SEM accounts for the possibility that some ...
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Working Memory Impairments in Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: The Roles of Anxiety and Stress Physiology
... Working memory impairments are well-characterized in children with 22q11.2DS (Bearden et al., 2001; Lajiness-O’Neill1 et al., 2005; Montojo et al., 2014; Simon et al., 2005). While these studies have largely ...
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Parkinson's Patients' Upper and Lower Limb Motor Impairments Differentially Influence Action Verb Processing
... representation of word meaning. Although it is well established that the left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortices, Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas, respectively, play a major role in language processing, the ...
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Epidemiologic Characteristics of Patients with Cerebral Palsy
... visual impairments, hearing impairments, speech disorders, feeding problems and cog- nitive impairments) and epidemiological characteristics of the patients were ...
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