Sentence examples for disability characterised from inspiring English sources

Dyslexia is a learning disability characterised by problems with accurate or fluent word recognition, poor decoding, and poor spelling abilities.

A spate of abuse against people with autism, a developmental disability characterised by impaired communication and social skills, has been reported over the past few months in the US.

There has been a new dialogue over disability, characterised by the constant drip-drip of stories implying vast numbers of disability claimants are bogus, that benefits are doled out without proper checks and taxpayers fund free cars for thousands of children with minor behavioural disorders.

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of chronic disability, characterised by the breakdown of the articular cartilage, for which we have no cure.

Computer workers with neck pain, but not sick-listed [ 46], have reported a lower pain level than in our population, whereas neck pain patients with more permanent work disabilities were characterised by even higher pain level than in the present study [ 47].

Pre-clinical disability refers to a transitional state on the disablement pathway between impairment and disability that is characterised by early changes to task performance, but precedes self perception of difficulty with task performance[ 11].

One cannot take for granted the fact that the successful management of other conditions, which all entails painful experiences (eg, tinnitus, chronic pain and anxiety), is relevant to hearing disability, which instead is characterised by the loss of (auditory) experiences.

Why are discussions of race, class, and disability within feminism so often characterised as infighting, or sideshows to the main event?

Intellectual disability is a cognitive disorder characterised by an IQ of <70 (Kaufman et al. 2010).

For example, 22q11.2 deletions, the first CNV to be associated with schizophrenia, also causes VCFS, which is characterised by intellectual disability and a number of medical problems such as palatal and skeletal anomalies and cardiac defects.

The best known example of these defects is Angelman syndrome characterised by intellectual disability, absence of speech, motor dysfunction and seizures (MIM 105830) caused by loss of function of the imprinted gene UBE3A (ubiquitin protein ligase E3A) [ 10, 11].