Sentence examples for counter disabilities from inspiring English sources

And the campaign by the South African runner Oscar Pistorius to compete in both Olympic and Paralympic events wearing prosthetic lower legs provoked a debate about the moral implications of using design not simply to counter disabilities, but to enhance our natural abilities.

"This collaborative effort is in keeping with the goals of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to counter stigma and promote inclusion for children with intellectual disabilities in developing countries around the globe.

When the staff members sees her apparently standing, they place bets on whether she is simply leaning on a counter or faking her disability.

For his part, Smith has announced a series of pledges aimed at younger voters, proposed a new referendum or election to confirm any Brexit deal, and pledged to counter Conservative cuts to disability benefits.

In contrast, policies designed to counter discrimination based on disability are not sensibly understood as temporary measures or steps toward a goal in which people are not treated based on their disabilities.

The lack of an SES association among this subgroup might have been due to counter-associations because intellectual disabilities among children overall are inversely associated with SES [3].

— but it also ran counter to how I imagined disability insurance working.

David Perry, a freelance journalist whose son has Down syndrome, wrote in CNN that bills like the one in Ohio run counter to the work that disability rights advocates have been doing.

For example, to counter the assumptions that disabled people want or should want to be "normal" or "independent", Swain and French [ 37] have proposed an "affirmation model of disability".

Group A comprised patients having either grade I or grade II migraine based on the classification as determined from the MIDAS questionnaire requiring only over-the-counter (OTC) analgesics to reduce their migraine disabilities.

She helped children understand the discrimination and the bullying faced by people with learning disabilities and how these might be countered.