Sentence examples for whose impairments from inspiring English sources

This is so both for people whose impairments are immediately observable and to those whose impairments are hidden, but subject to exposure by a temporary change in appearance, e.g., a person with epilepsy who has a seizure in public (Schneider and Conrad 1985).

Fencing is open to wheelchair athletes, whose impairments may include spinal cord injuries, lower limb amputation and cerebral palsy and whose conditions prohibit them from competing against standing, able-bodied fencers.

There are two classes called Minimally Disabled (MD) and Disabled (D) and a team may only have one MD player on the court while the other five players have to be class D. Basketball is open to wheelchair athletes, whose impairments may include paraplegia, lower limb amputation, cerebral palsy and polio.

The other survivors, whose physical deficits are not so severe or whose impairments and disabilities are not properly identified, return to their own environment, with or without support services [ 15, 16].

Now, patients whose impairment is still relatively mild are starting to tell their stories, he said.

In Read My Lips, the disability is deafness, but the film has a near-identical dramatic drive: a woman whose impairment is an analogue to a repressed emotional life; an insensitive, inarticulate man; a relationship that unlocks them both.

The question in Toyota Motor Manufacturing v. Williams, No. 00-1089 (Nov. 7), is whether the law protects an employee whose impairment prevents continuing in an existing job but permits other work and many everyday activities.

Riders compete in road races, time trials and mixed team relays and depending on their disability, they ride one of four bikes: tandems for visually impaired athletes with sighted pilots (B), hand cycles powered by hand pedals (H1-H4), tricycles for athletes whose impairment means they struggle to balance on a standard bike (T1-2) and modified bicycles (C1-5).

Kynurenine aminotransferases are pyridoxal-5′-phosphate-dependent enzymes, which catalyze the synthesis of kynurenic acid, a highly neuroactive metabolite whose impairment is associated with a number of severe brain disorders.

Therefore, these components of the ECM may reorganize the structure of the tendon and participate to the improvement of muscle strength and body stability, whose impairment represents the main cause of falls in elderly people.

Understanding the neural regions supporting self-reflection, a crucial component of self-awareness, could be critical to elucidate the intrinsic brain mechanisms whose impairment may lead to psychological disturbances [31].