Sentence examples for classes of disability from inspiring English sources

Because his event is a combined event, spectators were once again forced into the baffling world of "factoring", where two or more classes of disability are grouped together.

West suffers from cerebral palsy and competes in one of the more able classes of disability swimming.

Other classes of disability were not eligible to be classified and compete early in the sport's history.

Vision disorders has been cited as the fourth most prevalent class of disability in the United States [ 2] and the most prevalent handicapping conditions in childhood [ 3].

Under the plan, the board would eliminate its decades-old system of placing every disabled student into one of 20 highly specific special education categories and having separate classes for each category of disability.

The HAQ-DI score (range 0 to 3) was categorised into three different classes of functional disability according to relevant cutoff values proposed by the developers and as applied in other arthritides: absent or mild (0 to 1), moderate (>1 to 2) and severe (>2 to 3) [ 26, 27].

As Keri-Anne Payne, the swimming Olympic silver medallist and double world champion, says: "I've watched these guys train day in day out and I can tell you they are world class regardless of disability". Why are there five 100m finals?

Maybe I'm overly sensitive to the passage given the fact that a few weeks ago, I co-taught a class on "Scriptural Representations of Disability" with my colleague, Jeremy Schipper, in the Summer Institute on Theology and Disability.

Georgina Kleege joined the English department at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 where in addition to teaching creative writing classes she teaches courses on representations of disability in literature, and disability memoir.

Those who embrace a vast range of "identities" – ethnicities, nationalities, races, sexual and gender categories, classes of economic under-privilege and disability – are now encouraged to be possessive of their experience and to regard other peoples' attempts to participate in their lives and traditions, either actively or imaginatively, as a form of theft.

If a politician's health particularly matters in a climate of disability cuts, so does their class.