Sentence examples for disability category from inspiring English sources

Making healthy rather than ill disabled people paradigmatic of the disability category may obscure some disabled people's important differences.

Today, 5percentt of the trainees are not in any disability category but are jobless because they have other barriers to employment, like poor English skills, said a spokeswoman for the group, Haley Gilman.

"We have an athlete with a disability category and that's a huge honour but I see myself as an elite athlete first and foremost who just happens to have a disability who uses a wheelchair to play.

This decision seems a bit bizarre… The ruling, introduced earlier this year, singles out blind riders in each mixed disability category and obliges them to wear a blindfold while competing, furthering their disability.

Last summer he had to perform an altogether different set of exercises in front of a medical professional, a way of determining what for many is the most crucial and potentially fraught aspect of the Paralympics: the disability category in which he would compete.

Pearson finished 242 points clear of Ireland's Catherine O'Neill, with distances converted on the basis of the athletes' disability category.

Back then, there were 26 disability categories, almost as many as there were competitors.

The new scaling changed the disability categories for 44% of patients.

A comparison of the disability categories based on Likert and Rasch scaling revealed them to be nonequivalent.

The 2012 Paralympics in London involves 20 sports but not all disability categories can compete in each event.

Conclusion: Rasch analysis produced disability categories in the Oswestry that are linear and, therefore, useful for quantitatively assessing self-reported disability levels.