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].
Like the nine other families around them, Ms. Fabian and her children were enjoying the annual weekend retreat at Hidden Valley, a camp for disabled and able-bodied children ages 8 to 12. Disabilities among the campers range from learning difficulties to physical infirmities like cerebral palsy, spina bifida, congenital heart defects, visual impairment, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia.
But L.I.R.R. officials said the retirement board assured them that the number of disabilities among former L.I.R.R. workers "was typical of railroads industrywide".
CARL HERR Flushing, Queens The writer is the president of the board of the Alexandre Foundation, an advocacy group for people with disabilities, among others.
This is a pattern that abolitionists, supporters of women's enfranchisement, the modern African-American freedom movement and advocates for people with disabilities — among many others — have followed.
This data of incidence of childhood disabilities, among other facts about the program ignored by Mr. Kristof were sent to him by The Arc prior to publication.
Disabilities among classified children range from those who need speech therapy to those with multiple handicaps who need a myriad of health care professionals to accompany them through their school day.
The range of disabilities among special ed students makes the group's membership highly variable, they say, and so a larger number of test-takers is needed to produce statistically reliable results.
Earlier in the week the Commissioner General of UNRWA expressed his great concern over the number of women and children killed in the bombings and in particular the number of people with disabilities among the victims.
Her remarks about "invisible Americans" stood out as the new flourish to her standard campaign stump speech, and she cast a wide net: Rather than focus on the middle class or the working class, she included both, and singled out single mothers, children in poorly performing schools, Sept. 11 first responders, and soldiers returning from combat with disabilities, among others.
A recently published paper by the same research group had found an increased risk of learning disabilities among children who were exposed repeatedly to anesthesia before the age of 4, raising concerns that anesthesia may have adverse effects on newborns as well.
