This paper considers these issues through the lens of people with developmental disabilities themselves as well as their advocates; including family members, attorneys, disability rights advocates, Regional Centers, bioethicists and providers who work closely with them. It relies on 21 qualitative interviews with a total of 22 key informants from these groups, as well as assembling background r...

The meaning of "disability" has shifted with changes in public policy. Half a century ago, Congress was convinced that narrow determinations of disability are easy for physicians to make. But with the advent of universal civil rights protection against disability discrimination in the US, deciding whether particular individuals are disabled became increasingly contentious, until Congress interv...

Tremor disabled subjects were tested in two dimensional tracking tasks. The subjects had action tremor due to various etiologies. Both continuous and discrete targets were used. Displacement sensing and force sensing joysticks were compared. The effect of filtering of the control signal was evaluated. Position and velocity control were compared. While individuals were found to benefit from vari...

Humans are much more cooperative than other vertebrates. In other species, cooperation is mainly limited to close relatives, there is little division of labor, no trade, and no large scale conflict, the sick and disabled must fend for themselves, and the strong take from the weak without fear of sanctions by third parties. In contrast, division of labor, trade, and large scale conflict are prom...

Our paper investigates the values fostered and inhibited by current Brain-computer Interface systems for the physically disabled. We report on a study conducted among 12 physically disabled individuals by employing Value Sensitive Design, a tripartite methodology accounting for human values in the design process. Our study reveals that current systems restrict independence, articulation, recrea...

OBJECTIVE to provide evidence for predictors of recovery in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) among disabled older people living in the community. DESIGN MRC CFAS recruited a sample of 13,004 individuals aged 65 years and above from five communities in the UK. Participants underwent a baseline interview between 1990 and 1994 and were re-assessed 2 years later. PARTICIPANTS the...

Our study aims to find how disability affected human health in historical time through an examination of individuals' mortality risks and death causes. Swedish parish registers digitized by the Demographic Data Base (DDB) enable us account for a relatively high number persons reported have disabilities, compare them with group non-disabled cases. The findings concern 19th-century population 35,...

we read with a great interest the article written by davoodbeglou and colleagues entitled “evaluation of hepatitis b infection prevalence in institutionalized intellectually disabled children” which is recently published in your prestigious journal 1 . the authors concluded that hbv infection is more prevalent among institutionalized disabled children and that we should change our health polici...