Health
The hidden extra costs of living with a disability
Disability is often incorrectly assumed to be rare. However, global estimates suggest than one in seven adults has some form of disability.
Jul 26, 2017
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Disability
Health
Creating new model to support workers with disabilities
There was a time when not much was expected of Karly Saeks.
Jul 21, 2017
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Health
Afghans with disabilities lack access to quality health care
Despite 15 years of investment in the Afghan health care sector by the international community, vulnerable groups—including persons with disabilities—cite a growing rate of insufficient access to quality health care, ...
Jul 14, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
No statistically significant risk of ID in children from mothers using antidepressants
A study published by JAMA Psychiatry reports no evidence of an association between intellectual disability in children and mothers who took antidepressant medication during pregnancy when other mitigating factors, such as ...
Jul 12, 2017
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Health
Ongoing job growth reflects people with disabilities striving to work
Americans with disabilities continued to engage in the labor market, reaching 15 months of job gains, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment - Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation and ...
Jul 7, 2017
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Health
Census shows increase in children with disability, but even more are still uncounted
The 2016 Census has revealed an increase in the number of children with disability, up nearly 40,000 since 2011. One explanation is that the census now counts disability differently, which is more in line with the way many ...
Jun 28, 2017
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Health
How serious is binge drinking among college students with disabilities?
A new study finds that college students with disabilities binge drink more often than their non-disabled student peers. The study, providing the first picture of alcohol use and binge drinking by US college students with ...
Jun 22, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
One in six women with learning disabilities has attempted suicide
A new study by the University of Toronto found that the lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts was much higher for women who had been diagnosed with learning disabilities (16.6%) compared to women who had not (3.3%). Men ...
Jun 21, 2017
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Health
Our poorest and most vulnerable are living in the worst conditions
Disabled people need housing that is safe, warm and easily maintained, with good access to transport and health services, but large numbers of New Zealand's disabled population are living in the most deprived areas, in rental ...
Jun 16, 2017
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Autism spectrum disorders
New report finds quarter of adults with autism on disability services don't have work or activities
A quarter of adults with autism who use developmental disability services are not working or participating in other structured activities during the day, with only 14 percent holding a paying job in the community, according ...
May 24, 2017
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