Sequence Analysis of How Disability Influenced Life Trajectories in a Past Population from the Nineteenth-Century Sundsvall Region, Sweden by Lotta Vikström, Helena Haage, Erling Häggström Lundevaller

“…Through this method we obtain a holistic picture of the life course of disabled people. Main findings show that their trajectories did not include work or family to the same extent as those of non-disabled people. …”
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Educational needs and opportunities for adaptation of students with disabilities and persons with health limitations in the tertiary education system by M. V. Iontseva, S. A. Grishaeva, M. A. Ayvazyan

“…The article highlights the adaptation possibilities of disabled people in the tertiary education system, as well as the specifics of the organization and goals of an educational institution for teaching people with HL. …”
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Quarantined Justice, Compromised Diversity: Barriers to Disability Inclusion in China’s Public Sector Employment by Qian Xue, Bo Chen

“…Under the advocacy for diversity and inclusion within Chinese society, the judiciary has become a significant institution for the protection of marginalized groups, especially disabled people. Through proactive power expansion, the Supreme People’s Court has played a crucial role in scrutinizing employment discrimination in the private sector. …”
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Personalization of the Workplace through a Proximity Detection System Using User Profiles by Carolina Zato, Sara Rodríguez, Alejandro Sánchez, Gabriel Villarrubia, Javier Bajo, Juan Manuel Corchado

“…These different tools for the disabled people have been modelled with intelligent agents that use Web services. …”
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Investigation the Services Provided to Disabled in Çanakkale by Orkun Dalyan, Mehmet Pişkin, Leyla Yeşilçinar

“…Every healthy person is a disabled candidate, which is why disabled people have an important place in our society and worldwide. …”
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Design Issues and Application of Cable-Based Parallel Manipulators for Rehabilitation Therapy by E. Ottaviano

“…Modelling and simulation of both active and passive cable-based parallel manipulators are presented for an application to help older people, patients or disabled people in the sit-to-stand transfer and as a monitoring/training system. …”
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TENDENCIES OF CHANGES IN MARKET BEHAVIOURSOF PHYSICALLY DISABLED CONSUMERS by Magdalena Maciaszczyk

“…It is essential to notice that the way of making decisions and making choices is possibly a result of growing consumer awareness of disabled people but also generation changes undergoing on the market. …”
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CIVILIZATIONAL IDENTITY OF RUSSIAN STUDENT YOUTH IN A DIGITAL SOCIETY by V. V. Maximov, E. A. Malakhova

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Standards in Neurological Rehabilitation, June 1997 by Michael P. Barnes, European Federation of Neurological Societies Task Force

“…Such investment should produce benefits for disabled people and their carers and in the long term benefits for the national economy. (7) The Task Force realizes that neurological rehabilitation is poorly developed both in Europe and the world as a whole. …”
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Social support to improve the self-care ability of people with mental disabilities: a qualitative study in the “Kampung Tunagrahita” by Dahlia Novarianing Asri, Dian Ratnaningtyas Afifah

“…The objectives of this research are to describe and explain types of social support provided by families and residents of surrounding communities to individuals with mental disabilities in the “kampung tunagrahita” of mentally disabled people in Ponorogo Regency. This research used a qualitative descriptive approach along with its case study design. …”
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Adaptation of the Slovenian version of the Symbolic Ableism Scale by Karmen Drljić, Maja Lebeničnik

“…Ableism, a form of prejudice against people with disabilities, arises from stereotypical views of disabled people and can lead to discrimination. Symbolic ableism is a modern, subtle form of this prejudice. …”
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Representation of Fictional Characters with Disabilities in Selected Crime Novels of Oͅládèͅjoͅ Òkédìjí by Oͅlálérè Adéyeͅmí

“…Òkédìjí rejects through his characterization technique and use of proverbs, the insidious kind of social categorization and stigmatization that carry with it a ‘devalued status’ for disabled people prevalent in the modern time as against the Yorùbá culture which regards those living with disability as ‘Eͅni-Òrìsà’ (offspring of the deity). …”
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Development of Assistive Robots Using International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: Concept, Applications, and Issues by Hideyuki Tanaka, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Eimei Oyama, Yujin Wakita, Yoshio Matsumoto

“…Many assistive robots for elderly and disabled people have been developed in the past few decades. …”
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A model for the development of virtual communities for people with long-term, severe physical disabilities by C.M. Tilley, C.S. Bruce, G. Hallam, A.P. Hills

“…The model identifies: the need for 'a sense of control' as the foundation element of virtual communities for the disabled; the key domains in which disabled people participate in virtual communities; and the barriers and enablers to their participation. …”
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Socially-determined factors of positive transformation of the professional and labor self-concept of persons with musculosketal disorders by E. V. Istomina

“…In this group, most students have high rates of satisfaction of basic psychological needs for autonomy, social contacts, and competence, whereas in the group of students characterized by negative transformation of professional and labor self-concept, many identify themselves only with the social group of disabled people, feel alienated from the outside world with excessively high rates of satisfaction of basic psychological needs, which demonstrates their helplessness and deprivation of conditions of their professional and personal development.…”
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The Influence of Functional Fitness and Cognitive Training of Physical Disabilities of Institutions by I-Chen Yeh, Chia-Ming Chang, Ko-Chia Chen, Wei-Chin Hong, Yu-Hsiung Lu

“…The study suggested developing physical fitness programs and physical and cognitive prescriptions for the disabled people of the institutions.…”
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Data-Driven Approach to Evaluate the Level of Service (LOS) of Demand-Responsive Transport for the Disabled (DRTD) with an ANFIS Algorithm by Seohyeon Park, Sooyeon Park, Hosik Choi, Do-Gyeong Kim

“…Even though the Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) service plays an important role to provide more convenience to the disabled people, they still have a challenge to be solved in terms of waiting time. …”
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Digitalization: new risks for people with disabilities. Problem statement by N. N. Meshcheryakova, E. N. Rogotneva

“…Inattention within the framework of digitalization programs to the fact that disability has an individual trajectory and for the full use of modern information and communication technologies, people with disabilities need assistive technologies, the costs for them, the compatibility of auxiliary software with the design of websites is one of the main reasons for the emergence of digital inequality in this category of the population.To minimize digital barriers, depending on the individual needs of disabled people, it is proposed:1) to expand the functions, competencies and technical capabilities of social workers and / or organize technological support of life activities by volunteers;2) to develop programs of additional information education;3) to calculate the costs of assistive technologies for individual nosologies to provide targeted social assistance;4) to encourage and subsidize the development of assistive technologies within the framework of state financial assistance to high-tech developments;5) to take into account the special needs of people with disabilities in digitalization programs.…”
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Management of inclusive data for Merapi volcano eruption risk areas using participatory action research (PAR) with the perspective of women, the elderly, and persons with disabilit... by Meilinarti, Swasto Eko, Ngurah Ida, Candraningrum Dewi, Bening Rahmayna Kania

“…This research, conducted by Plan Indonesia, YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU), and the Klaten Association of Disabled People (PPDK), with support from ELRHA, UKAid, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Plan International, aimed to foster inclusive research by integrating Views from the Frontline (VFL) guidelines with the Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) method. …”
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Critiquing representations of intellectual disability in occupation-based literature by Rachel Reparon, Pamela Block, Ann Fudge Schormans, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Gail Teachman

“…Background Within and beyond occupation-based scholarship, concerns abound regarding the pervasiveness of discourses that promote a negative, deficit-based view of intellectual disability and associated consequences for disabled people’s lives. Such representations risk reducing the complexities of human doing and being and can limit the occupational possibilities of this group. …”
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