Preface The Philosophical Problem Defining Mental Handicap The Moral Status of the Cognitive Disabled Euthanasia, Abortion and Genocide Cognitive Disability and Oppression Theological and Religious Issues Notes Bibliography Index.
Also, there has been a selection bias by excluding diabetic patients with a very short life expectancy (terminally ill patients, cognitive disabled people and patients who were unable to undergo educational programs), as described in the methods section.
Among the elderly, 28.5 % have physical disabilities and 9.5 % have cognitive disabilities; among the disabled, 53.6 % have physical disabilities and 37.8 % have cognitive disabilities [ 10].
Nor, to apply a lesson from feminist philosophy of science, can objective knowledge about disability be produced unless disabled people, including people with cognitive disabilities, are fully respected members of the community of inquirers (see Longino 2001).
For this entry, we will consider individuals defined as cognitively disabled in functional terms, because our interest is in the moral relevance, if any, of the absence or substantial limitation of critical cognitive functions.
Photo: UNICEF / South Africa / Jantilal August 2005 - Thandiwe School for the disabled in the rural KwaZulu Natal (KZN) municipality of Nkandla is home to boys and girls, aged from 2-16, with a range of physical and cognitive disabilities.
Patients with poor vision who were unable to see written items on the questionnaire, patients with cognitive problems, or disabled due to cerebral vascular accident, or in poor physical condition were excluded from the study.
9, 10 Ninety-eight percent of AL residents prefer to remain in AL and avoid NH placement, 11 but progressive declines in cognition and self-care often necessitate eventual transfer to a NH. 4, 12, 13 Thus, AL residents fear losing their cognitive ability and becoming disabled, a fate frequently mirrored by other residents in their midst.
Some are minimally responsive, with no cognitive function; others are severely disabled with impaired cognitive and motor function, but can communicate.
ICT educational tools can play an essential role in the cognitive development and inclusion of disabled people.
