Sentence examples for given a disability from inspiring English sources

Now, service members are given a disability rating before their discharge.

There, he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury, and given a disability rating of 40 percent.

The highest score in each category is then summed (0 to 24) and divided by the number of categories scored to give a disability index that ranges from 0 to 3. HAQ-DI scores of 0 to 1 generally represent mild to moderate functional difficulty, 1 to 2 represent moderate to severe functional difficulty, and 2 to 3 indicate severe to very severe functional limitations or disability [ 22].

All injured survivors (both civilians and veterans) of the Iran-Iraq war are given a severity index (disability rate) in the Veterans and Martyrs Affair Foundation (VMAF) database, based on their clinical problems and severity of the injury or injuries.

The Pentagon must revamp the Medical Evaluation Board process, the system under which a soldier suffering from injury is screened to see if he should be given a discharge and a disability pension.

Items were summed to give a total disability score.

As an advocate who knew only too well, Mrs. Rozelle often observed that many children are never given a diagnosis of learning disability; get a diagnosis but receive little help from their schools; are characterized as lazy, stupid or troublemakers; or are inappropriately placed in classes with mentally retarded children.

But most of them want to know and -- given a prognosis of serious disability -- will end the pregnancy.

Once given a chance, children with disabilities can thrive, succeed and reach their full potential.

That is, it can be plausibly argued that there is not much difference, as far as negative attitudes to disability are concerned, between a screening programme which aims to reduce the prevalence of disability and one that merely aims to provide choice, if it is known that most people, when given a choice, choose to avoid disability.

The simplest way to see this is that for many people, money will have more use if one is healthy and normal than if one is plagued with physical disability, so given a hypothetical choice to insure for handicaps, one might prefer an insurance policy that gives one less income if one is handicapped and more income if one is not.