Videos about People with Disabilities
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Disabled and abandoned
as a child contestant wows x factor judges
Katy Perry Duet
You’re a Firework –
Katy Perry Lyrics
Autistic Girl
Expresses Unimaginable Intelligence
Down’s syndrome in 21st
century
God doesn’t make
mistakes
Doctor explaining Down’s
syndrome
Susan Boyle
Stephen Hawking
My brother
Parents
of special-needs kids push for more acceptance
DUBAI // The challenges of raising a child with disabilities in the
Emirates came into focus this week after police said they were looking for a
way to file a legal case against parents who had abandoned their six-month-old
baby in a Dubai hospital. The parents did so after learning that the boy
suffered from epilepsy and neurological disorders
UAE's Tawam Hospital opens Down syndrome clinic
UAE's Tawam Hospital opens Down syndrome clinic
Al Ain: In association with Johns Hopkins Medical, Tawam Hospital has
inaugurated a new specialiswed clinic for infants and children diagnosed with
Down’s syndrome.
According to the World Health Organisation, Down syndrome
is present in one out of about 1,000 live births.
In the US alone, about 6,000 babies a year are born with
the chromosomal abnormality, according to the Centres for Disease Control and
Prevention, amounting to about one in every 700 births.
A 2007 study looking at more than 63,000 newborns in
Dubai, between 1999 and 2003, estimated the incidence to be one in every 449
live births. Among Emiratis, this rate increased to one in 319.
Disability Vocabulary
Word
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Meaning
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Example/Notes/Related
words
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Disability/ies (n)
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Disabled (adj); disabled person
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Handicap (n)
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Handicapped (adj)
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Ability (n)
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Able/unable (adj)
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Impairment (n)
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Impaired (adj)
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Activity limitation
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Participation
restriction
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Support (v) (n)
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aid (n) (v)
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Mobility (n)
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Access (n) (v)
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Inclusion (n)
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Inclusive (adj)
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Quota (n)
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Assistive technology
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Special education
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Special needs
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