As a carer, my first task is to support my adult son – who has moderate learning disabilities, dual sensory impairment and airway-related issues – to get ready for his day.
Our daughter has a cocktail of disabilities including dual sensory impairment and epilepsy, and we can't consider one disability in isolation from the others.
Struggling readers, students with disabilities and dual language learners are examples of students for whom instruction should be differentiated.
For compositional variables, we included age groups, with the youngest age group as the reference; race or ethnicity, with whites as the reference; disability or dual eligibility status (to reflect more vulnerable populations); and degree to which the study population had recently changed residence.
It's not uncommon for commissioners to serve dual roles: Graeme Innes, who was disability commissioner, also served as rights and race discrimination commissioner for two years.
Exclusion criteria included patients with a primary diagnosis of depression, bipolar illness, or dual diagnosis with either learning disability, substance / alcohol abuse, personality disorder or evidence of organic pathology that could explain the presenting symptomatology.
This dual nature of the concept of disability places as much emphasis on the environmental response to a health condition as it does on the health condition itself.
Furthermore, when in contact with the criminal justice system, being both Aboriginal and having a cognitive disability may be a "dual disadvantage" [15; p. iii].
The contractors often have a dual role: they evaluate children and identify disabilities, and then they deliver services, at costs that are higher than in other states, education experts said.
We predict that these cuts will affect many "dual eligibles," or seniors and people with disabilities who rely on Medicaid to cover the cost of services, such as long-term care, that Medicare does not cover.
World Health Organization cites among the main challenges of populational aging the dual disease burden: the greater risk of disability, and the need for care.
