Sentence examples for which disabilities from inspiring English sources

It remains difficult to tease out which disabilities come from the illness as opposed to the I.C.U.

Months before, we had been presented with forms asking which disabilities would be acceptable in a prospective adoptee — what, in other words, did we think we could handle: H.I.V., hepatitis, blindness?

The association was a defendant, and the court found, according to Roberts, "to decide which disabilities should and shouldn't apply for waiver put an undue burden on the association".

A society in which disabilities lack the social and practical significance they currently have may be one in which the equality of people with disabilities can be fully recognized without having to treat disability as a salient feature of their identities.

Their longer lives mean they survive to ages at which disability becomes more common, but that's not the whole story.

Proposed or actual changes to benefits, such as employment support allowance (the replacement for incapacity benefit), caps on housing benefit and alterations to the basis upon which disability living allowance is paid have left many shaken and worried.

She argues that the social model of disability, which until recently has been the preeminent theoretical inspiration for disability studies, tends to obscure the frequency with which disability is tied to illness (Wendell 2001).

In response, Martha Nussbaum (2006b, 490 498) concedes that Richardson's proposed reconstruction of Rawls would largely avoid the exclusionary features of the OP to which disability scholars have objected.

Nonetheless, researchers realize that research on children with disabilities remains complex due to the diverse ways in which disability is conceptualized and the children's depiction as "helpless" in disaster (Hahn 1985; Aron and Loprest 2012).

It analyzes different models in which disability has been conceptualized and the role this plays in excluding children with disabilities in DRR activities and in determining access to necessary resources in the face of disaster.

It has critiqued the different ways in which disability is conceptualized and argues that the medical, economic and, to a lesser extent, social model of conceptualization play a role in excluding children with disabilities in DRR initiatives.