OBJECTIVE To compare the differential implications of sociodemographic and situational factors on the risk of injury among disabled and non-disabled children. DESIGN Data from the Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System (EDISS) were used to compare, in a quasi case-control approach, injured children with or without disability with respect to sociodemographic, event and injury variable...

The paper focuses on disabled students in higher education (HE) and their use of technologies to support their learning. Disabled students commonly report that they feel they have to work harder than other students because they have to manage both their disability and their study. Access to and accessibility of technologies affects how well disabled students manage this workload. Data were coll...

BACKGROUND Few previous studies have specifically addressed the health care utilization situation of the physically disabled. This study aimed to investigate the utilization of free adult preventive health care for physically disabled people and its' affecting factors. METHODS The data was obtained from three nationwide databases from 2006 to 2008. This study comprised 329,264 physically disa...

The low rate of employment among disabled people in Britain has often been observed, but is not well understood. This paper examines the dynamics of disabled people's employment, with a view to reaching a better understanding of the processes which underlie the cross-sectional picture. The analysis uses data from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey and focuses on three t...

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHODAS II) is an instrument developed by the World Health Organisation in order to assess behavioural limitations and restrictions to participation experienced by an individual, independently from a medical diagnosis. The conceptual frame of reference of this instrument is the International Classification of Functioni...

There are 82.96 million disabled people in China, which accounts for 6.34% of the total population, almost one sixth families nationwide or over 200 million people. Along with the economic and social development, China has also harvested a lot in the project of poverty reduction for the disabled people and explored policies and measures of Chinese characteristic to help them. However, we are fa...

A sample of 32 right-handed, learning disabled children aged 8-10 yr., 11-13 yr., and 14-16 yr. were presented a tactile discrimination task. Pairs of fabrics of the same or different texture were presented to the same hand (Uncrossed condition) or alternating hands (Crossed condition). The Uncrossed hand condition and the Croised hand condition are inferred to relate to intraand interhemispher...