When a mother learns her baby is mentally handicapped the news comes as a knock-out blow. She, and her family, need time to digest the shock; they also need sympathy and practical help which is not as readily available as it should be.

The present literature review identified 29 reports from 22 countries in Asia, Africa and Central America reporting on the outcomes of rehabilitation-in-the-community programmes in low and middle income countries published between 1987 and 2007. Interventions included home visits by trained community workers who taught disabled persons skills to carry out activities of daily living, encouraged ...

MULTIMODAL INTERFACE FOR DISABLED PERSONS S.A. Chhabria and R.V. Dharaskar Department of Computer Science and Engineering, G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur. E-mail: [email protected] Assistive robots have the potential to provide disabled people with effective ways to alleviate the impact of their limitations, by compensating for their specific impairments. In particular, r...

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the desire of the parents who had a chronically disabled child to have other children and to investigate the effect of having a disabled child on the relationship of the parents. MATERIAL AND METHODS The families of 145 chronically disabled children were included in the study. After the sociodemographic information belonging to the child and family wer...

The medical history of a 16-year-old severely handicapped girl and the social history of her family are traced, with particular emphasis on the extent to which the handicap affected each member of the family. The role of the general practitioner is also highlighted.

BACKGROUND Although the need for early identification and interventions of disabilities is evident, the current state of routine screening practice in Kenya needs intensive training of screeners before more rigorous techniques are introduced. OBJECTIVE To compare the precision and practical utility of the 'ten questions' and EARC screens among the 2- 9 year olds in a community setting. METH...

Various surveys conducted by the Social Security Administration have provided national estimates of the prevalence of work disability among the adult population. In the 1972 survey, the most recent, approximately 7.4 million persons, or 7 percent of the civilian noninstitutionalized population aged 20-64, reported severe disability, defined as the inability to work at all or the inability to wo...