On the basis of disability scores on the Health Assessment Questionnaire HAQQ), a self-reported measure of functional impairment, 20% of patients had no disability, 28% were mildly disabled, and 10% were seriously disabled [ 1].
Results In the last year of life, six distinct trajectories of disability were identified, from least disabled to most disabled: 95 participants (17.2%) had no disability, 61 (11.1%) had catastrophic disability, 53 (9.6%) had accelerated disability, 61 (11.1%) had progressively mild disability, 127 (23.0%) had progressively severe disability, and 155 (28.1%) had persistently severe disability.
In a previously reported series of 87 PM/DM patients, the distribution of HAQ scores revealed that only 17.5% had no disability and 12.5% were severely disabled.
The data were right skewed with clumping at zero (i.e., 40% of subjects had no disability at 7 months).
When Paramount wanted to cast his screenplay "A Child Is Waiting," about retarded children, with actors who had no disability, Mr. Mann objected.
Nearly 100 Roma children from the settlement attended a nearby school for mentally handicapped children, he noted, even though many of them had no disability.
An investigation concluded 10 of the 12 members had no disability.
People with deafness have plenty of ways to navigate everyday situations as if they had no disability at all, but there are still situations that present dangers unique to them — not being able to hear a smoke alarm or gunshot, for instance.
Her daughter had no disability, but she too had destroyed her brother's most treasured possession.
