People with severe speech and motor impairment due to cerebral palsy are great difficult to move independently and also cannot control home electric devices. Computer has much to offer people with disability, but the standard human-machine interface (e.g. keyboard and mouse) is inaccessible to this population. In this chapter, we describe a speech recognition interface for the control of powere...

Young disabled persons, those under age 35, were the most seriously handicapped of all recipients of aid to the permanently and totally disabled in mid-1951. Many suflered from mental deficiency and other disabilities of congenital or birth origin. Relatively nzore of them than of the older recipients were confined to their homes and required services from other persons in daily activities and ...

are expected to deliver services which achieve the best possible outcomes. The Every Child Matters (ECM) outcomes framework – focusing on the five outcomes of be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution and achieve economic well-being – is central to all policy for children. However, it is unclear how these outcomes should be interpreted for disabled children. This re...

The effect of syntactic context on auditory word identification and on the ability to detect and correct syntactic errors in speech was examined in severely reading disabled children and in good and poor readers selected from the normal distribution of fourth graders. The poor readers were handicapped when correct reading required analysis of the sentence context. However, their phonological de...

BACKGROUND The policy of the diminution of the social isolation of the disabled is the main objective of the strategy of the EU new policy concerning the disabled. Lithuanian society faces this objective as well. For this reason, this study aiming at providing the theoretical basis for and predicting the possible psycho-social environment in an integrated education system, as well as at the eva...

It is useful to consider, not only what the birth of a physically handicapped child does to parents, but also what it does to us as professional people. Even though we (doctors, nurses, almoners, psychologists, social workers) are trained in a field where distress and tragedy are part of our daily work, the birth of a very abnormal baby gives us a severe shock, whether we are conscious of it or...

BACKGROUND The article presents the results of psychosocial burdens in special educators (specialists in the field of oligophrenopedagogy) with intellectually disabled students. In theoretical part, specific context of occupational stress in special educators was introduced. Additionally, the need of broader research context regarding occupational stress and the risk of burnout in special educa...

The study measured cost-effectiveness of home care for severely disabled persons. Findings support home care as more cost-effective than other alternatives for ventilator-dependent persons. Home care-related policy reform in Medicaid, Medicare, Supplemental Security Income, and subsidized housing, coupled with a coordinated service delivery system, could save millions of public dollars. To acco...

Speed and vibration performance as well as obstacle avoidance performance of the previously proposed Electric Wheel Chair: EWC controlled by human eyes only is conducted. Experimental results show acceptable performances of speed vibration performance as well as obstacle avoidance performance for disabled persons. More importantly, disabled persons are satisfied with the proposed EWC because it...

Abstract—Method and system for vital sign (Body temperature, blood pressure, bless, Heart beat pulse rate, and consciousness) and location/attitude monitoring with sensor network for the proposed rescue system for disabled and elderly persons who need a help in evacuation from disaster areas is proposed. Experimental results show that all of vital signs as well as location and attitude of the d...