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L & M Electronics, Inc.'s telemetry system is used to measure degree and location of abnormal muscle activity. This telemetry was originally used to monitor astronauts vital functions. Leg sensors send wireless signals to computer which develops pictures of gait patterns. System records, measures and analyzes muscle activities in limbs and spine. Computer developed pictures of gait patterns help physicians determine potential of corrective surgery, evaluate various types of braces, or...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), DISABILITIES, BIOTELEMETRY, ABNORMALITIES, MUSCULAR FUNCTION,...
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IASET JOURNALS
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Disability is still viewed as a social welfare issue, and as a result, the disabled are seen as people requiring charitable assistance, who continue to remain isolated from the mainstream. In addition, many stigmas and myths are tagged to disabilities. Besides there are many other important factors like gender, socio-economic status, region and religion which impact how disability is understood and dealt with. Able bodied persons are ill-informed about the âpersons with disabilitiesâ and...
Topics: Barriers, Humane-Society, Inclusion, Inclusive-Education, Inclusive-Society, Persons with...
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Topics: People with mental disabilities, People with mental disabilities
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Topics: School districts, Federal aid to education, Children with disabilities
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Topics: Children with social disabilities, Compensatory education
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Topics: Children with social disabilities, Self
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Topics: Sunland Training Center. (Gainesville, Fla.), People with mental disabilities, People with mental...
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This is a copy of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division's "Investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department", along with an executive summary and agreement in principle between the DOJ and the City. It was first released online on August 10, 2016 here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-findings-investigation-baltimore-police-departmentThe investigation was precipitated by the death of Freddie Gray. The investigation...
Topics: Baltimore, police department, BPD, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Freddie Gray,...
Communication is made possible for disabled individuals by means of an electronic system, developed at Stanford University's School of Medicine, which produces highly intelligible synthesized speech. Familiarly known as the "talking wheelchair" and formally as the Versatile Portable Speech Prosthesis (VPSP). Wheelchair mounted system consists of a word processor, a video screen, a voice synthesizer and a computer program which instructs the synthesizer how to produce intelligible...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), WHEELCHAIRS, WORDS (LANGUAGE), COMPUTER PROGRAMS,...
A high gain steering controller to compensate for limitations in a handicapped driver's range of motion is employed when adapting vehicle to his use. A driver/vehicle system can become unstable as vehicle speed is increased, therefore it is desirable to use a computer simulation of the driver/vehicle combination as a design tool to investigate the system response prior to construction of a controller and road testing. Unknown driver parameters must be identified prior to use of the model for...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), AUTOMOBILES, CONTROLLERS, DISABILITIES, MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS,...
19th Century British Pamphlet After having contracted scarlet fever at the age of two, Catharine Mewis is said to have been âtotally blindâ for six days a week. Every Sunday, her vision was restored from morning until night. Several specialists attempted to treat the condition, which had been witnessed by the entire district in which she lived. The author argues that, even though some might claim it to be a trick, there would be no reason for her to do so, and that her upstanding parents...
Topics: Biography, Attitudes towards Disabilities, Medicine
Topic: Attitudes towards Disabilities
Topic: Attitudes towards Disabilities
World's Work: April 1914
Topic: Attitudes towards Disabilities
Commonwealth: v.18, no.26, 1933. "It is the work of Mother Elizabeth Czacka, the blind Franciscan nun, and her followers."
Topics: Services for People with Disabilities, Organizations (Groups)
Outlook: Nov. 24, 1906
Topic: Attitudes towards Disabilities
Topics: Services for People with Disabilities, Rehabilitation
The overall aerodynamic drag characteristics of a conventional wheelchair were defined and the individual drag contributions of its components were determined. The results show that a fiftieth percentile man sitting in the complete wheelchair would experience an aerodynamic drag coefficient on the order of 1.4.
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), AERODYNAMIC DRAG, DISABILITIES, HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING,...
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Topics: Children with disabilities, School management and organization
An ever expanding body of rehabilitation engineering technology is developing in this country, but it rarely reaches the people for whom it is intended. The increasing concern of state and federal departments of rehabilitation for this technology lag was the stimulus for a series of problem-solving workshops held in California during 1977. As a result of the workshops, the recommendation emerged that the California Department of Rehabilitation take the lead in the development of a coordinated...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), INFORMATION DISSEMINATION, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, TECHNOLOGY...
Michael Condon, a quadraplegic from Pasadena, California, demonstrates the NASA-developed voice-controlled wheelchair and its manipulator, which can pick up packages, open doors, turn a TV knob, and perform a variety of other functions. A possible boon to paralyzed and other severely handicapped persons, the chair-manipulator system responds to 35 one-word voice commands, such as "go," "stop," "up," "down," "right," "left,"...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), PROSTHETIC DEVICES, WHEELCHAIRS, MANIPULATORS, MINICOMPUTERS,...
Children with cerebral palsy have nervous system defects which lead to muscular spasticity and loss of coordination. Many of these children have great difficulty walking because certain muscles are in a constant state of contraction. Surgical techniques can lengthen muscles or tendons to improve the child's walking pattern, but it is vital to diagnose accurately the particular spasticity problem of each patient; the individual muscles causing the handicap vary greatly from child to child. It is...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), DISABILITIES, BIOTELEMETRY, CEREBRUM, MUSCLES, CHILDREN,...
Topics: Agriculture, People with disabilities
The Coastal Center and the NASA Biomedical Team are working together to adapt a suspension device that simulates weightlessness. Attempts to approximate weightlessness have led astronauts underwater and into harnesses that suspend all or part of their weight. One such device, built at Langley Research Center, is being transferred to rehabilitation work. It can help a person walk and re-learn muscular coordination following a stroke. Hospitals could use it to lift handicapped persons.
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), GRAVITATION, COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION, MECHANICAL DEVICES,...
Concepts were developed for three wheel chairs from progressively improving designs of a proposed unmanned roving vehicle for the surface exploration of Mars; as a spin-off, a concept for a stair-climbing wheel chair was generated. The mechanisms employed in these are described. The Mars mission is envisioned using the booster rockets and aeroshell of the Viking missions.
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), DISABILITIES, MARS SURFACE, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, ROVING...
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Topics: Elementary school principals, Children with disabilities
This study is part of a broader investigation of the role of large-scale educational telecommunications systems. Thus, data are analyzed and trends and issues discussed to provide information useful to the systems designer who wishes to identify and assess the opportunities for large-scale electronic delivery of education for the handicapped.
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), DISABILITIES, EDUCATION, STUDENTS, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT,...
The identification of feasible and practical applications of space teleoperator technology for the problems of the handicapped were studied. A teleoperator system is defined by NASA as a remotely controlled, cybernetic, man-machine system designed to extend and augment man's sensory, manipulative, and locomotive capabilities. Based on a consideration of teleoperator systems, the scope of the study was limited to an investigation of these handicapped persons limited in sensory, manipulative, and...
Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), MANIPULATORS, TECHNOLOGY UTILIZATION, TELEOPERATORS,...
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Topics: People with disabilities, Home and school, People with disabilities
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Kerlin, Isaac N. (Isaac Newton), 1834-1893
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Signed: I. N. Kerlin
Topics: Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, Children with mental disabilities
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Topic: People with mental disabilities
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Topic: People with mental disabilities
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Moon, William, 1819-1894. nr 92041540
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GM 5909
Topic: People with visual disabilities
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Helen Keller: a genius.--Sir Francis Joseph Campbell, LL. D.--Henry Fawcett, LL. D., M. P.--Dr. Armitage: practical philanthropist.--Laura Bridgman and her teachers.--François Huber.--Dr. Thomas Blacklock.--John Metcalf: "Blind Jack" of Knaresborough.--John Stanley, MUS. BAC.--Nicholas Saunderson, M. A., LL. D., F. R. S.--John Milton: as a blind man
Topic: People with visual disabilities
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Topics: Alberta. Premier's Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities, Handicapped, Physically...
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Topics: Alberta. Premier's Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities, Handicapped, Physically...
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Topics: Alberta. Premier's Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities, Handicapped, Physically...
Outlook for the Blind, Vol. 13, Winter 1918-1919
Topics: Services for People with Disabilities, Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Rehabilitation
National Institutes of Health Library
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United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vocational Rehabilitation Administration
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National Institutes of Health Library
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Jans, Lita; Stoddard, Susan; National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (U.S.)
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"InfoUse."
Topics: Women with disabilities, Children with disabilities, Disabled persons, Employment
Topic: Developmental disabilities Children Pennsylvania.
Topic: Children with disabilities United States.
Topic: Children with disabilities United States.
Topic: Children with disabilities United States.
Topic: Children with disabilities United States.
Topic: Children with disabilities United States.
Topic: Children with disabilities United States.
Topic: Children with disabilities Services for United States.
This two-phase study integrated quantitative and qualitative research methods to investigate the relationship between success outcomes of two-year college students with disabilities and self-determination, and how students with higher and lesser degrees of self-determination understand and describe the outcomes of their post-secondary experience. The "ARC Self-Determination Scale" (Wehmeyer & Kelchner, 1995) and the "Demographic and Outcomes Survey" (researcher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Disabilities, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research, Self...