Sweden has a long tradition of labour market policies explicitly targeting job seekers with disabilities, ranging from in-work aids to subsidized employments, aiming at strengthening their position at the labour market. To ascertain that these programs are limited to the needy they are constrained to those job seekers that are classified as occupationally disabled by the Public Employment Servi...

One of the problems with which mentally challenged children and adolescents are faced in the healthcare systems of the world is that the importance of their problems have often been neglected by decision-makers. 1 The problem looks more severe when we investigate health care services to mentally disable children. Generally, a child's health problem creates an economic burden for families but ca...

BACKGROUND Children and adults with impairments such as cerebral palsy have lower participation in life situations than able-bodied people. Less is known about their subjective perception of their lives, called their quality of life.During adolescence, rapid physical and psychological changes occur; although these may be more difficult for disabled than for able-bodied adolescents, little resea...

The Richard H. Hutchings Psychiatric Center (HPC), located in Syracuse, is a New York State Mental Hygiene Facility providing mental health services to the Central New York Region. At this time the Center primarily serves the 473,000 residents of Onondaga County; however, when fully operational, it will also provide services to the 287,000 residents of surrounding Madison, Oswego, Cayuga, and C...

Today still big challenge in world to find efficient technique for perform recognition on mental tasks, and distinguish between them. This allow us to use Brain Computer Interface applications to helps disabled people to interaction with environment and control on external devices. Streszczenie. Obecnie duze znacznie ma rozpoznawanie aktywności umysłowej dzięki analizie aktywności mózgu. W arty...

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