Erişebilirlik, bireysel yetilerin farklılıklarından kaynaklı durumların engel teşkil etmeyeceği biçimde, fiziksel, sosyokültürel ve ekonomik çevreye ulaşabilme; buralardaki hizmetlerden yararlanabilme bunlara katkı sağlayabilme olanaklarına sahip olmaktır. Erişilen hizmetin mekânın yeterli düzeyde çeşitlilikte olması önemlidir. Yaşanabilir kentlerin temel performans ölçütlerinden olan erişilebi...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of the dmft-DMFT indexes and the oral hygiene status of 136 individuals attending a special school for the disabled. METHODS Participants were grouped according to disability [Mental Retardation (MR), Cerebral Palsy (CP), Autistic Disorder (AD), Down Syndrome (DS), Other (OTH)] and age [2-6 years (n=24), 7-12 years (50 child...

As 1974 began, the Social Security Administration started distributing supplemental security income (SSI) payment checks to aged, blind, and disabled poor persons throughout the Nation. Shortly before the first SSI checks were issued, the Bureau of the Census completed personal interviews with 17,551 individuals from which SSI's clientele would be drawn--aged and disabled welfare recipients and...

The current research investigates acknowledgments that physically disabled individuals make in an interview setting, and examines whether the timing of an acknowledgment makes a difference to the impressions that evaluators form A total of 137 participants watched an interview of a disabled applicant who (a) made no acknowledgment about the disability; or who acknowledged the disability at the ...

In creating of adaptive user-friendly e-health care service for people with movement disabilities, human’s affect sensing is included in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) [1, 2, and 3]. In recently [4, and 5] proposed system, the model of two adaptive moving wheelchair-type robots for remotely communicating with two wearab...

The article discusses parenting of individuals with disability. It was based on the perspective of barriers, which (next to the perspective of risk and the functional perspective) marks the nature of discourse this theme takes in the literature on the subject and in practice. The perspective of barriers, related to the social model of disability, emphasizes the social factors important for the ...

Human Computer Interaction has always always been oriented towards providing ease of access to the users of the systems. Much work has been done on this area for non-disable person which formulates the largest segment of the commercial population. A lot of effort is required to be made to make technology accessible to the disabled community. The paper discuss several problems associated with in...

This paper examines how Congress’s 2008 expansion of who is disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) impacts the labor market outcomes of newly covered individuals. Focusing on obese individuals, I exploit variation in coverage of obesity before and after the 2008 expansion to identify effects of the legal change, but I find no improvement in the labor market outcomes of the obe...