Therefore most individuals with schizophrenia are considered disabled and claim benefits.
In the UK, children with epilepsy are considered disabled for the purposes of the Equality Act of 2010 and are thus protected from discrimination in terms of admission and participation in school activities.
Perversely, this would produce a greater extra benefit for those who weren't considered disabled when they retired than for those who retired with serious health problems.
These golfers are considered disabled.
These skills are so essential that those without them are considered disabled.
Subjects reporting a value lower than 20 were not considered disabled, while those scoring 21 to 100 were considered disabled.
A patient is not considered disabled until thorough treatment and rehabilitation has been attempted.
An individual was considered disabled if he/she reported having difficulties in performing at least one of the ADLs on his/her own or only being able to perform it with personal assistance.
Participants were divided into two groups according to their disability score (Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire [ 34]): persons were considered as disabled with a score of ≥0.5 and not disabled with a score of <0.5 as suggested in literature [ 35].
In both groups, over half the patients considered themselves disabled, with a slightly higher percentage of patients who had amputations reporting difficulty with practicing a profession (60 vs. 40%%).
