1 by the World Health Organization and the World Bank marks a watershed in the history of how disability should be understood by healthcare practitioners. Along with a special issue of the Lancet, 2 this report marks recognition by organised healthcare that healthcare practitioners acted paternalistically towards disabled people, often deciding on their behalf what is in their best interests. 3...

This chapter presents e-learning practices and applications, which target people with visual and hearing disabilities. The first part discusses an elearning application, which targets visually impaired people while the second part presents an e-learning application for the teaching of the English language to deaf and hearing impaired people. The final part presents a study about the relationshi...

This paper describes the RobChair assistive navigation system. RobChair project was conceived with the aim to assist disabled people in the difficult task of manoeuvring a powered wheelchair. This paper describes the overall hardware and software architecture including the communication system; a friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) which also works as a simulator; and introduces a voice Hum...

In the view that, the projects Chinese disabled people had participated in Paralympics are less, the number of entries and as well as the experience are also less than others, however, much of our competitors are people of a new type. Facing on the so called “more less than 3, more than1 " problems, this paper uses time series analysis, and then concludes that Chinese cities disabled athletes p...

The transition process for young physically disabled people (n = 87) was studied in three districts to determine how it varied between schools, and how it was perceived by the disabled and their carers. The experiences of the young people were compared with guidelines for good practice based on relevant legislation. Results showed that young disabled people experienced a poor handover to adult ...

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...

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...

The purpose of this study vvas to clarify the application range and utility of an ADL illdex for disabled elderly peeple (Demura et al., 2000), by examining the ADL characteristics of an elderly population when this index was ftpplied to disabled and independent elderly people. Subjects ofthis study were 697 Japanese institutionalized disabled elderly people and 482 independent elderly people (...