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What do people use disabilities to talk about?
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What words refer to a disabled person?
Examples disabilities examples
How do I use disabilities in a sentence?
Simple sentences
How many people do you know with disabilities?
Do Tom and Mary have learning disabilities?
Tom helps children with learning disabilities.
My friend is writing a doctoral thesis on developing visual perceptual skills in children with learning disabilities.
Movie subtitles
It comes down to a few old-time warriors with various disabilities and the group at the bottom of the list.
All right. Do you have any particular disabilities?
Americans with Disabilities Act.
I'm a veteran, I've got disabilities, man.
He filed under the federal disabilities Act.
So there'll be no developmental problems or disabilities, right?
He has been medicated, he has received shock therapy, and aside from his other disabilities, he has been diagnosed with severe ego dystonic obsessive compulsive disorder, which would explain the switching of the victims' rings.
When you look at the evolution of harassment laws we say that they should qualify under the Disabilities Act.
Okay, do you have any disabilities, past injuries, physical anomalies?
Right. Fake disabilities don't count.
They're laughin' at 'im, and I think you shouldn't laugh at people with disabilities!
In 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, which protects the disabled from being discriminated against in the workplace.
Right, I mean people with disabilities.
But Geoffrey overcame these terrible disabilities. with that simple resilience and sunny optimism. that so warmed all of us who knew him, spending the rest of his life in the service. of the poor and disabled of this parish.
She said it was the excitement of immortality that stopped her cutting her wrists. But more likely a concern for her grandchildren made her accept her disabilities.
Fallthuis, in acknowledgement of his VUE disabilities, took a job giving him time to travel with his wife on her singing tours of Europe.
Stephany Falltrix is trying hard to shake off the crippling effects and influence of the VUE on her mind and body and argues that the inclusion of her disabilities in this film is not going to help her recovery.
I don't believe in joking about disabilities, Mr. Wilson.
I don't have any disabilities, Ellie.
I've done some work with people with disabilities.
Most of them are trying to put their disabilities behind them.
Bruce opened the door for people of all races. cultures and disabilities to fulfill their potentials.
Usually they start you on wines with learning disabilities. But this one is pretty good.
She outshone by far all the girls of her age but she knew there were grave disabilities from which she suffered.
Do you have any particular disabilities?
It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life with disabilities.
Fake disabilities don't count.
Funding special education for kids with disabilities.
My dad is head of the local society for people with disabilities.
In fact, it's protected by the americans with disabilities' act. So don't even think about trying to get rid of me for this.
Sadly, Mr Klaus, it's our experience that most operations in the borough - media-related ones especially - make little provision for ethnic minorities or for those with disabilities.
And there's a lot of people who learn to live with disabilities every day.
We can 't let that happen to people with disabilities.
News and current affairs
Around one-third of the children are malnourished, and will consequently suffer a lifetime of physical and cognitive disabilities.
When a child is spared cerebral malaria and the lifelong mental disabilities that it can cause, new possibilities are created.
Her decision focuses mainly on the risk that vulnerable people - for example, the aged or those with disabilities - will be pressured into accepting assistance in dying when they do not really want it.
Some are impaired in their ability to give informed consent due to mental or cognitive disabilities, or are exposed to coercion, improper monitoring, and pervasive conflicts of interest.
BUDAPEST - In September of this year, the Bulgarian prosecutor launched a homicide investigation into the deaths of 238 children with disabilities, who had been living in state institutions in Bulgaria.
The rate of institutionalization of children with disabilities has remained stable, but is set to be reversed.
This is the first intergovernmental agreement to incorporate the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), a legally-binding human-rights treaty.
There is no effective training for health-care and social-welfare professionals that covers the special health needs of people with intellectual disabilities, and no monitoring of health systems.
People with intellectual disabilities are under-researched, their physical and mental health problems unarticulated and unidentified - and thus their special needs left unaddressed.
Despite some efforts by governments in the 1990's, institutions remain the default official response to children with disabilities and their families across Central and Eastern Europe.
In tough economic times, there is a tendency to sacrifice human rights, but preventing institutionalization of children or adults with disabilities is no longer open to negotiation.
Children and adults with disabilities, together with their advocates, should be involved in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of policies and services.
Of course - indeed, above all - in such circumstances the immense investments needed to overcome underdevelopment and the disabilities that it entails are increasingly forgotten by the world of international finance.
In Russia, roughly 125,000 people with mental disabilities are confined to institutions - for life.
There are no independent inspectorates monitoring these hospitals to protect patients' rights, and there are no advocacy services on behalf of people with mental disabilities.
On taking office, Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, should order an independent review process to help end the country's pattern of stigmatizing and discriminating against people with disabilities.