Within the regulatory framework outlined by the International Labour Organisation, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities establishes that the State must take a proactive approach and fulfil the right to work of persons with disabilities (different abilities). This entails interaction ...
Participants with DS still performed more poorly than did the TD and ID participants. Of additional interest, we observed that the performance of persons with DS correlated with different ability measures than did the performance of the other groups. The results the two experiments point to a ...
Under the influence of scientific revolution and changes, which are connected to the country`s movement to the market economy, professional activity of people was significantly complicated in all the fields, direct losses from the lack of organization or through unused abilities increased. So, organiz...
Although previous studies have investigated the role of profiles of individuals in social cognition and metacognition in chronic schizophrenia, profiling subjects with first-episode psychosis in both domains remains to be investigated. We used latent profile analysis to derive profiles of the abilities in...
Provide a qualified handicapped person with an aid, benefit, or service that is not as effective in affording equal opportunity to obtain the same result, to gain the same benefit, or to reach the same level of achievement as that provided to others; (iii) Provide different or separate aid...
Results of this study (with adults) indicate that persons who became blind earlier in life had better shape and texture discrimination abilities than person who became blind as adults. Furthermore, individuals who were totally blind outperformed those who retained functional vision. Several small ...
with visual impairment. Otherwise, they felt the need to explain themselves and sometimes ended up in a defensive position. A couple of the participants cycled, and one wandered with her eyes to detect obstacles, as facing the deteriorating vision required adjustments to changing abilities and ...
However, the person with dementia may have adhered to their medications because their cognitive abilities had declined, which would have also increased caregiving management needs. Whether these are influencing variables warrant further exploration. The five characteristics identified as predictors of ...
This is a chapter of my life which is filled with challenging but fond and wonderful memories which I will always cherish. I have learnt so much about the disability sector and made so many friends, especially the ones who are different. ...
The first two papers report on different research approaches using this health promotion curriculum. The effectiveness of a curriculum-based, train-the-trainer model to achieve health outcomes for adults with I/DD in community settings is addressed first. The next paper examines a community-based ...