This review paper follows on from a previous review of the literature with regard to learning disability and murder (Read, S. 2008). This paper, in turn, examines the relationship, if any, between learning disability and fire setting. The approach taken in both these papers involves the concept of Disruptive Behaviour Disorder as being the group of behaviour and personality disorders most invol...

objectives: the global prevalence of lifetime depression is very high among women in the world–approximately 12-25 percent. the global prevalence of disability is also very high and the estimated figure for the end of 2000 was put at around 300 million. the child’s disability stresses the mother the most, and this stress shows itself in the form of depression, and causes the mother’s performanc...

In this demo, conference attendees will try out a new system for providing multi-sensory transit and way-finding information about New York City subways to riders who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled. The system includes a booklet of raised-line and textured maps of train routes; users explore the maps through various combinations of vision and tactile sense, and then t...

objective: to compare sexual and behavioral puberty problems between intellectually disabled (id) and normal boys in yazd, iran. methods: in the present study, 65 intellectually disabled and 65 normal boys were included. the child behavior check list (cbcl) was used to investigate behavioral problems. in order to study sexual problems, a questionnaire that was designed by the researchers was ap...

Recent data from the first two waves of the Health and Retirement Study are analyzed to evaluate prevalence of different types of health insurance, characteristics of different plan types, and change sin coverage as individuals approach retirement age. Although overall rates of coverage are quite high among the middle-aged, the risk of noncoverage is high within many disadvantaged groups, inclu...

Recently, CNN reported on the future of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) [1]. Brain-computer interfaces are devices that process a user’s brain signals to allow direct communication and interaction with the environment. BCIs bypass the normal neuromuscular output pathways and rely on digital signal processing and machine learning to translate brain signals to action (Figure 1). Historically, BC...

It has been suggested that up to a half of elderly hospitalized patients excrete an abnormally high concentration of indican compared with young individuals. Thus, the commonly used colorimetric qualitative test for urinary indican excess may be invalid in the aged. However, of 21 young control subjects, 18 healthy elderly subjects, and 23 disabled, elderly, long-stay patients, no individual ha...

Following stroke, the deficit of unilateral neglect (also referred to as spatial neglect, hemiinattention and the neglect syndrome, amongst other terms) is associated with poor outcome with affected patients relatively unlikely to relearn to walk (Buxbaum et al., 2004). The outlook for regaining independent mobility is made still worse by the general inability of patients with unilateral neglec...

Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the success and efficiency of the training practices for acquisition of basic personal hygiene skills and behavior of hand washing and soiling in a relatively heterogeneous group of individuals receiving care from a drop-in day care/special education service. We also analyzed etiologies of the causes of discrepancies in learning behavior implying a need f...

Deficits in Task-Specific Modulation of Anticipatory Postural Adjustments in 1 Individuals with Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy 2 3 Hidehito Tomita, Yoshiki Fukaya, Tomomi Ueda, Shota Honma, Eriya Yamashita, 4 Yoshiji Yamamoto, Etsuko Mori, and Katsuyoshi Shionoya 5 6 1 Department of Physical Therapy, Toyohashi SOZO University, Toyohashi, Japan 7 2 Aichi Prefectural Hospital and Rehabilitation ...