The phrase "grave disability" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or medical contexts to describe a condition where an individual is unable to care for themselves due to mental or physical incapacity.
Example: "The court determined that the individual was experiencing grave disability and required assistance for daily living."
Alternatives: "severe impairment" or "critical incapacity."
In a survey of American psychiatrists' views about involuntary treatment, respondents held danger to self or others and grave disability as the primary reasons for involuntary treatment [ 33].
In a national U.S. survey of psychiatrists' views about involuntary admission, respondents revealed a strong support for criteria labeled danger to self, danger to others and grave disability, as grounds for admission [ 20].
Most readers have assumed that Philip's clubfoot stands in for his creator's speech impediment, but Francis King, an English writer and a friend of Maugham's, argued that it was "a metaphor for a graver disability" — his sexual orientation.
Most readers have assumed that Philip's clubfoot stands in for his creator's speech impediment, but Francis King, an English writer and a friend of Maugham's, argued that it was "a metaphor for a graver disability"—his sexual orientation.
"But why doesn't our school have to look right on all days and not just some days?" Wayne continued to progress markedly in reading at his school, where his therapists are coming to believe that his gravest disability was being ostracized by his peers.
Appropriate candidates for telephone intervention are those with whom the clinician has already met in person and with whom a therapeutic rapport was established, and those who have been assessed thoroughly: including for suicidal or homicidal ideation, thoughts of harming oneself or others, and grave psychiatric disability.
Patients with grave physical disabilities were excluded using the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) [10].
Like Sinisterra, Williams had endured an appalling childhood, marked by frequent and extreme sexual and physical abuse, and had grave intellectual disabilities.
I called and told my father the grave news that my disability payments had been cut off.
The rapidly rising rates of childhood obesity and subsequent increasing burden of disease and disability has grave social and economic consequences, contributing to rising cost of health services and limiting economic growth.
Human beings with radical cognitive disabilities suffer "grave misfortune" but not reduced status if they are not able to share in the distinctive forms of our common life in which their embodiment has "embedded" them.
