Lex Frieden, a professor of health-information science at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and a former director of the National Council on Disability, sees the issue differently.
However, Chief Constable Simon Cole, the national policing lead for disability, sees the increase in reported offences as a sign that this is changing, as police forces endeavour to improve their handling of disability hate crime.
Every day someone with a learning disability sees their hours of support reduced or cut altogether, depriving them and their families and carers of their right to live as normal a life as possible.
For a discussion of the definition and the measuring of disability, see OECD (2010).
Therefore, the disability seen among that group may be reduced due, in some part, to short-term prophylaxis.
2. For a dialogue on just this topic between two philosophers, one of whom has a disability, see the correspondence between Magee and Milligan (1995).
The deficits of attention contribute significantly to the clinical picture of functional disability seen in schizophrenia, but there is no consensus as to whether this cognitive function can be fractionated to allow further characterisation of the impairment.
Most industrialized countries have public insurance programs covering both short-term income losses due to sickness absence from work, medium-term medical/vocational rehabilitation processes, and permanent disability; see, e.g., OECD (2003; 2009; 2010).
The aim of the present study was to assess the validity and usefulness of a new measure to assess disability (see electronic supplementary material) in a sample of patients with chronic daily headache.
Although that was only two years before the passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, embodying a social model of disability (see SEP entry, Disability: Definitions, Models, Experience), it was well before the academic reconceptualization of disability as a social phenomenon.
