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Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

The RHN has always been helped and supported by high profile figures, including Florence Nightingale; author Charles Dickens; poet, John Betjeman; Thomas Hardy the poet and author; Otto Goldschmidt the pianist; and HM Queen Elizabeth II.


155th Ohio Infantry

Five companies of the 155th were from Pickaway County, Ohio—A, C, E, H, & I. Company H showed 83 men on the official roster; however two of the men never mustered, and another was discharged the day after muster on a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability.

2019 Asian Para Games

The 2019 Asian Para Games, also known as the Third Asian Para Games, will be a parallel sport event for Asian athletes with a disability held in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Belchertown State School

In 1975, Belchertown was sued once again for denying its patients the right to vote (this was one of the first disability-related voting rights cases in the United States), and in 1977 a case was brought against the school on behalf of a 67-year-old severely retarded man with leukemia to determine if a court-appointed guardian ad litem could refuse treatment on his behalf.

Casualty insurance

When the NAIC approved multiple underwriting in 1946, casualty insurance was defined as a blanket term for legal liability except marine, disability and medical care, and some damage to physical property.

City Bar Justice Center

The Veterans Assistance Project recruits, trains and mentors volunteer attorneys to provide pro bono assistance to veterans in connections with the filing of disability benefits claims before the New York City Regional Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Coalworker's pneumoconiosis

In the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, the U.S. Congress set up standards to reduce dust and created the Black Lung Disability Trust.

David Bolt

It was selected for the Project MUSE collection and found an institutional base in the Centre for Disability Research (CeDr), Lancaster University.

Delayed sleep phase disorder

According to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, "disability" is defined as a "physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities".

Disability Challengers

Disability Challengers receives funding by local authorities, but a significant proportion comes from fundraising from companies, trusts, community groups and individuals as well as fundraising events run by the charity supporters.

Disability Discrimination Act 2005

The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (c 13) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Fragile X syndrome

In 1943, J. Purdon Martin and Julia Bell described a pedigree of X-linked mental disability, without considering the macroorchidism (larger testicles).

Fred Fay

Jonathan Young, chairman of the National Council on Disability, said, “Fred was one of the great early pioneers in disability advocacy...the depth and breadth of his knowledge and commitment was surpassed only by the life he lived and the legacy he leaves behind.

Global Assessment of Functioning

GAF levels are commonly used by the Veterans Benefits Administration of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in determining the appropriate level of disability compensation to be paid to veterans who suffer from service connected psychiatric disorders.

Handicapism

And characters like Captain Hook, promote the fears of children against disability among adults.

Harriet Johnson

Harriet McBryde Johnson (1957–2008), American author, attorney, and disability rights activist

Ivor Jess

Since his injury, he has organised the event as the annual Freewheelers Lough Neagh Charity Cycle in aid of disability sport.

J. J. Jelincic

He is known for his years of service as chair of the Unit 1 bargaining team, representing more than 43,000 rank-and-file state workers such as employment program representatives at the Employment Development Department (EDD), disability evaluators at the Department of Health Services (DHS), accounting officers, auditors and analysts for all departments.

Janetta Douglas

Dame Carol Kidu has described her as an "unsung hero", and said that "without people like Janetta Douglas, the disability data for Moresby South would not be being collected".

Keren Leibovitch

Leibovitch has competed in the Paralympic Games, a major international multi-sport event in which athletes who have a physical disability compete, which were created by Ludwig Guttmann, a German Jewish doctor who escaped from the Nazis.

Keshavashram

In the town of Mangalore lived a pious devotee of Swamiji who was physically challenged (feet had a disability).

Komiks Presents: Flash Bomba

Dubbed as the “Superhero for All Seasons”, Flash Bomba stars Luis Manzano and his alter-ego is Roldan Legazpi/Flash Bomba, a man who overcomes a physical disability resulting from a hunting trip accident and becomes a crime fighter.

L'Arche

Encounter with Mystery: Reflections on L'Arche and Living with Disability, 1997, by Darton, Longman, editor Frances Young

Legitimists

The French and Spanish claims separated again at Alfonso's death, as his eldest surviving son Infante Jaime renounced his claim to the Spanish throne due to physical disability and, some years later, asserted a claim to the French succession based on Legitimist principles.

Media Access Australia

People with disabilities, particularly those who are Deaf, hearing impaired, blind or vision impaired, are in many cases excluded from mainstream audiovisual media, with often profound implications for educational outcomes, workforce participation and social inclusion.

National Voters' Day

On the fourth National Voters Day, a disability activist Satendra Singh's RTI caught Election Commission of India off-guard when they were found violating Supreme Court orders to enfranchise voters with disability.

North Brighton, South Australia

The northern reaches of the suburb are occupied by Brighton Secondary School and the campus of Minda Inc, a large disability support organisation.

O'Farrell Ministry

John Ajaka assumed Constance's former responsibilities as Minister for Disability Services and Pearce's former responsibilities as Minister for the Illawarra.

Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City

OSU-OKC claims to be committed to providing educational opportunities and support services to students with disabilities based upon the documentation of a disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.

Overactive disorder associated with mental retardation and stereotyped movements

The extent to which the behavioural pattern is a function of low IQ or of organic brain damage is not known, neither is it clear whether the disorders in children with mild intellectual disability who show the hyperkinetic syndrome would be better classified here or under F90.- (Hyperkinetic disorders); at present they are included in F90-.

Page zooming

It is usually found in applications related to document layout and publishing, e.g. word processing and spreadsheet programs, but it can also be found in web browsers as it improves accessibility for people with visual impairment and people using mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobiles which have a relatively small screen.

Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

The Presenting Sponsor since 2001 has been Shop 'n Save, and funds raised by the event benefit the Autism Society of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Valley School, which care for individuals with mental and physical disabilities.

Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg

By 1914, Alexander was almost an "invalid", traveling with the help of a nurse for his care.

Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons

Serious disability is equivalent to visual acuity of less than 20/200 Snellen measured using both eyes.

Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton

Since 1962, he was member of the Abbeyfield Society, the Catholic Housing Aid Society, the London Housing Aid Centre, the National Federation of Housing Associations, Mencap, the Foundation for Alternatives, the Hugh of Witham Foundation, and the Action around Bethlehem Children with Disability (ABCD).

Ruislip Manor tube station

Local Green Party members commented that improved disability access has not been included in this overhaul.

Sean Farrell

After football, Farrell became a financial advisor with several investment companies including Merrill Lynch, and he is the chairperson of the Gay Culverhouse Player Outreach Program to assist former NFL players facing disability issues after their careers.

Sheila Black

Teaching part-time at New Mexico State University and also working as Development Director for the Colonias Development Council, Sheila Black continues to write poetry, recently becoming co-editor of Beauty Is A Verb: The New Poetry of Disability with Jennifer Bartlett and Mike Northen.

Sheila McHale

Prior to retirement, she served as Member for Kenwick and Minister for Disability Services, Tourism, Culture and the Arts, and Consumer Protection.

Sim Van der Ryn

Van der Ryn was appointed California State Architect in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown, during which time he developed the United States' first government-initiated energy efficient office building program and led adoption of energy standards and disability access standards for all construction in California.

Statue of Europe

The statue was manufactured, modelled, polished and painted by visually impaired children under the supervision of by French artist Bernard Romain, who wanted to demonstrate that disability was not a disqualifying factor.

Stephen Gilson

Gilson has received invitations to keynote at national and international conferences on disability studies and distinguished lectures at University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Smith College, NYU, University of North Carolina, Ono Academic College, Research Institute for Health and Medical Professions, and others.

The Negotiator

Lieutenant Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson), a top Chicago Police Department hostage negotiator, is approached by colleague Nathan Roenick (Paul Guilfoyle) who warns him that large sums of money are being embezzled from the department's disability fund, for which Roman is a board member, and members of their own unit are involved.

Timeline of disability rights outside the United States

1985 - The Canadian Human Rights Act was enacted, and it banned discrimination against people due to their physical or mental disability.

Tony Ciccone

A serious motorcycle accident while editing on Mission: Impossible II kept him off the film in its final stage and put Mr. Ciccone on physical disability for almost a year.

Twice exceptional

The disabilities are varied: dyslexia, visual or auditory processing disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sensory processing disorder, Asperger syndrome, Tourette Syndrome, or any other disability interfering with the student's ability to learn effectively in a traditional environment.

University of Nottingham Medical School

3) features Medicine, Surgery, Musculoskeletal Disorders and Disability (Rheumatology and Orthopaedics), General Practice and a Critical Illness Module.

Welfare in Poland

Constitution of Poland states that all citizens have the right to social security in case of being unable to find a job, reaching the retirement age, or suffering from inability to work due to illness or disability.

West Wing

During the 1930s, the March of Dimes constructed a swimming pool so that FDR could exercise, as therapy for his disability.

Wynn Newhouse Award

The Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, a charitable organization founded by newspaper entrepreneur Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr., inaugurated the award in 2006 at the suggestion of the late Wynn Newhouse, to draw attention to the contributions of artists with disabilities to contemporary art.


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