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Disability in Childhood, Note that the handicap may be a relative thing, arising from barriers (eg attitudinal, physical, social) that impact on people with impairments and/or ill he...
Disability in Older People (Causes and Treatment), Some definitions The World Health Organization has defined disability as the following [ 1 ] : "Disability is a...
Incapacity Benefit is only paid to existing claimants who were unable to work because of illness or disability before 31 January 2011. New claimants from 1st February 2011 receive Employmen...
Microcephaly, mental handicap, seizures and failure to thrive. Investigations If a pregnant woman is suspected of having rubella, the clinical diagnosis is very unreliable.
The major clinical features are: Retinal degeneration - rod-cone dystrophy occurs in 90-100% of cases and leads to severe visual handicap with total blindness occurring before the secon...
There may be blindness, deafness, mental handicap or ADHD. The quality of life of the surviving child can be difficult to assess. The term bed-blockers is usually used pejoratively of the ...
This correlates with increased rates of both cerebral palsy and neurodevelopmental delay. [ 17 ] They may develop a specific learning disability and behavioural problems. Hearing impa...
Synonyms: Joubert-Boltshauser syndrome, cerebelloparenchymal disorder IV, familial cerebellar vermis agenesis, cerebello-oculo-renal syndrome. [ 1 ] Joubert's syndrome is a rare autosomal rec...
Pain, swelling, muscle wasting and damage to joints result in progressive deformity, disability and handicap. Tendon sheaths have synovial linings and inflammation of these can re...
Earlier implantation may lead to better language outcomes. [ 15 ] Research suggests that children given a cochlear implant in their first year of age can develop language skills at a comparable rate ...
Essential tremor (ET) Most cases of essential tremor fall into the following four categories [ 8 ] : Mild tremor, which produces no functional or psychological disability/handica...
Whether a risk will be regarded as substantial may vary with the seriousness and consequences of the likely disability. Neither is there a legal definition of serious handicap. An as...
In developing countries most babies do not receive prophylaxis and VKDB is probably a common (but poorly documented) cause of death and handicap in the early months of life. Late VKDB occa...