Impairment

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• Algore: The Coward of Lisp

  
  The Illustrated Conservative — Authority: 131
  Al Gore: Fraud, Scaredy Cat, "(But) putting aside the fact that Gore has honed his public speaking skills, the fly in the ointment is that he’s a fraud. Like the very global warming movement to which he has attached himself, he’s a snake oil salesman whose sales pitch is laced with scare tactics designed to push ...
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• The Middle Easts invisibles | Jack Shenker

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Millions of disabled people in Arab and north African societies face exclusion and discrimination – and almost certain poverty Earlier this year I played a football match in Cairo against an Egyptian team made up entirely of deaf players. It was a eerie experience; under the dull roar of the 6 October flyover , ...
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• Modeling Developmental Language Difficulties From School Entry Into Adulthood: Literacy, Mental Health, and Employment Outcomes

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Conclusions: The data indicate that both SLI and N-SLI represent significant risk factors for all the outcomes identified. There is a strong case for the identification of these children and the development of appropriate interventions. The results are discussed in terms of the measures used and the implications for ...
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• The Perception of Lexical Tone Contrasts in Cantonese Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Conclusion: The SLI group’s poor tone identification cannot be accounted for by vocabulary knowledge alone. The group’s tone discrimination performance suggests that some children with SLI have a deficit in f0 processing. from the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
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• Freaky Friday: Eat, Think, Live

  
  A Dude's Guide — Authority: 128
  by Richard You’ve heard the old expression, “You are what you eat,” yes? Of course you have. Turns out there might be a new saying in the offing: “You live as long as you think and eat well, of course.” Yeah, I know. Not exactly a pithy saying that just trips off the tongue. It’s still a work in ...
  2 days ago

• Potential risks of investigating workers compensation cases

  
  Safety At Work Blog — Authority: 136
  According to a several media reports in the United States, a private investigator, Matthew Brady, who was investigating a workers compensation case whilst hiding in the woods was mistaken for a turkey and shot by the man he was investigating.  Brady was operated on in the local hospital.As the Workers Comp Insider ...
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• CWRU researchers report poor outcomes for CCI patients leaving hospitals on ventilators

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 648
  Patients, discharged from hospitals on ventilator support and with cognitive impairments, fare poorly four months later. Researchers from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University report these findings in American Journal of Critical Care .
  3 days ago

• Heartbreaking - part two

  
  Jazzie and Tahlia — Authority: 127
  Wow, I got a lot of responses after I wrote my  post named "heartbreaking" . Not only here on the blog, but on Facebook as well. I want to once again all my friends who called, e-mailed or texted me that day. I was quite upset then, didnt really know what to make of all of Jazzies statements and wasnt really sure ...
  4 days ago

• The cognitive and neural expression of semantic memory impairment in mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer’s disease

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease have been widely documented, but little is known about the integrity of semantic memory in the prodromal stage of the illness. The aims of the present study were to: (i) investigate naming abilities and semantic memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), early ...
  4 days ago

• A longitudinal study of hearing decline in women with Turner syndrome

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Conclusion: Young and middle-aged women with Turner syndrome (TS) have a progressive type of hearing impairment, deteriorating rapidly in adult age. The hearing decline seems to consist of two patterns: a mid-frequency dip, likely of a genetic origin, and a high-frequency loss resembling age-related hearing impairment ...
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• Pets Offer Therapeutic Benefit

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 552
  Pet ownership in America is a common affair — 39 percent of U.S. households own at least one dog and nearly 34 percent own at least one cat. While anecdotal benefits of pet companionship can be traced to biblical times, emerging research documents the value of the human-animal bond in child development, elderly ...
  5 days ago

• Bond with pet works like therapy during stressful times

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, December 1 (ANI): The often underestimated significance of a pet in the life of a human has been brought forward in a growing body of research that suggests that a household animal can provide a range of relational benefits.Dr. Froma Walsh poured the research in two articles, entitled “Human-Animal Bonds ...
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• Pets can help humans tide over adversities, mental illness

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec 1 (IANS) Anyone who keeps a pet knows the immense joy and comfort that it can provide, especially in troubled times. A growing body of research now documents the value of the human-animal bond in child development, elderly care, mental illness, physical impairment, dementia, abuse and trauma ...
  5 days ago

• The Final Nail

  
  The Illustrated Conservative — Authority: 131
  Climate change data dumped, "Scientists at the University of East Anglia have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the ...
  6 days ago

• Heartbreaking

  
  Jazzie and Tahlia — Authority: 127
  Jazzie has been talking a lot about the fact that she wishes she wasnt deaf. As she was snuggling with me in bed this morning, she mentioned it again. Here are some of the things she said: "Being deaf is the worst thing in my life". "Being deaf is boring". "Being deaf is such bad luck". And the one that got me the ...
  1 week ago

• PhillyBurbs.com: Now he can hear what he was missing

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 152
    PhillyBurbs.com:  Now he can hear what he was missing
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• Imagine

  
  Jazzie and Tahlia — Authority: 127
  I LOVE the show Glee. It is definitely one of my all time favorite shows. Here is a link to a clip of one of Glees finest moments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxG1eGlOhMg Please watch it if you have not seen it. This scene brought me to tears. It spoke to me because I love the song. It spoke to me because I ...
  1 week ago

• Making the Impossible Possible – Not Always Perfect or Pretty

  
  Do It Myself Blog - Glenda Watson Hyatt — Authority: 115
  Several weeks ago, I had the honour of being a speaker at BlogWorld in Las Vegas. Picking up my badge in the Speaker’s Line at Registration early Thursday morning, a few eyebrows were raised when I was asked if, indeed, I was a speaker. Yes! Unbelievable, isn’t it? A few short years ago, me, given my ...
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• Breakthrough Chiropractic Treatment for Fibromyalgia

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 148
  Fibromyalgia You don’t need anyone to tell you about the stressful symptoms of fibromyalgia if you are someone who suffers from the pain created by it. The painful symptoms can be widespread, occurring above and below the waist, and include both sides of the body. The deep aching that accompanies the condition ...
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• Funny How Those In Favor Of ACTA Are Against Treaty Providing Mo...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  It seems pretty bizarre that companies and industry organizations would be against helping those with reading disabilities or vision impairment -- but thats exactly what you get in the discussion over creating some loopholes in copyright law to make it easier to reformat content to help those who would have ...
  1 week ago

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