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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disability
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a physical disability (=condition that makes it difficult for someone to use a part of their body properly)
▪ From birth he has suffered from severe physical disabilities.
learning disability
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mental
▪ However, a great many people with some degree of mental disability were not receiving any formal care or treatment.
▪ Sam Bass, who specializes in investigating crimes against people with mental disabilities.
▪ Experts said his injuries would mean permanent physical and mental disability.
▪ Domiciliary services can help the handicapped and their families, especially when the mental disability is accompanied by physical handicap.
▪ It can come much earlier and lead to physical and mental disability.
▪ The majority of people who had benefited by the use of regulation 72 have suffered some kind of physical and/or mental disability.
▪ Most Down's people have related physical handicaps in addition to their mental disability.
▪ More severely handicapped people often suffer from physical as well as mental disabilities.
old
▪ Lack of mobility may mean that older people with disabilities have to incur the cost of private transport in order to get about.
other
▪ Many of the people we care for suffer from other crippling disabilities as well as their blindness.
▪ The same thoughts had been going through the minds of two other women with disabilities.
▪ Their handicap is like any other permanent disability, such as some one who is physically handicapped through the loss of a limb.
▪ Wheelchair-bound and other people with disabilities then buy a handheld £20 transmitter.
▪ Specially modified accommodation for students in wheelchairs or with other disabilities is available at Pollock Halls and elsewhere.
permanent
▪ Their handicap is like any other permanent disability, such as some one who is physically handicapped through the loss of a limb.
▪ But I am going out on what could be permanent disability because of a foot injury.
▪ She would have liked to pay him back for his earlier tone by pretending a permanent disability.
▪ Who knows what permanent disability his little internal organs may be suffering because of our good intentions?
physical
▪ The medical staff would like to know if you suffer from any physical disability or illness such as asthma, diabetes or epilepsy.
▪ Some pupils with physical disabilities may require the writing attainment targets to be modified.
▪ Experts said his injuries would mean permanent physical and mental disability.
▪ It can come much earlier and lead to physical and mental disability.
▪ Services for people with physical disabilities Help people stay in their own homes through better availability of equipment and services.
▪ Support relatives and friends who care for people with physical disabilities.
▪ This gave a new urgency to discussions of the extent of poverty, sickness and physical disability.
▪ Because of her physical disability, she needs twenty four hour care.
severe
▪ I only receive a severe disability allowance and finding two lots of money for dentists care will be difficulty.
▪ However, there is still considerable use among children with severe learning disabilities.
▪ In conclusion, deficiencies have been found in monitoring adults with severe physical disability whose sole regular contacts are health professionals.
▪ Develop more day and accommodation services for the extra needs of people with severe learning disabilities and multiple handicaps.
▪ Its prime value is with those with severe learning disabilities where communication growth is likely to be limited.
▪ From birth he has suffered from severe physical disabilities.
▪ The survey estimated that 2.7 million people were in the top five categories, that is, suffering the most severe disabilities.
▪ Mr D, 31, has a severe learning disability and other handicaps.
social
▪ Such terminology will undoubtedly continue to change as social constructions of disability evolve.
▪ After two years of being on experimental drugs for her epilepsy, Harlan got on Medicare via Social Security disability.
young
▪ The Scheme originally began in 1982 when it was funded through City Planning as a training programme for young adults with disabilities.
▪ One area which has proved very popular have been the walks and activities for children and young people with disabilities.
▪ Disability - We're working with lots of groups involving young people with disabilities fighting for independence, integration and rights.
■ NOUN
benefit
▪ Likewise, for those caring for an adult the scheme would have to be built on an adequate system of disability benefits.
▪ Colonial Insurance paid Ferdinand $ 7, 000 in disability benefits.
▪ To introduce a new disability benefit.
▪ Social Security does not know how many Massachusetts recipients of disability benefits are still disabled.
insurance
▪ The way to avoid such problems is by arranging life assurance and disability insurance.
▪ Khare pays Kelly a flat weekly fee for Baltzersen, avoiding disability insurance, benefits and payroll costs.
▪ Royal Bank currently generates C $ 335 million in annual premiums from the sale of creditor life and disability insurance.
▪ The remaining 1. 9 percent would continue to be paid into the federal disability insurance program.
issue
▪ Employers, training agencies and the wider society require education on disability issues.
▪ Kaufman said of the disability issue.
▪ A number of the disabled professionals were actively involved in disability issues.
▪ It was felt that such an approach would be a step towards addressing the marginalisation of disability issues.
▪ Earlier I mentioned Stokely Carmichael; and here is the White liberalism of mental disability issues.
▪ The Equal Opportunities Commission does not concern itself with disability issues.
learning
▪ However, there is still considerable use among children with severe learning disabilities.
▪ Develop more day and accommodation services for the extra needs of people with severe learning disabilities and multiple handicaps.
▪ Its prime value is with those with severe learning disabilities where communication growth is likely to be limited.
▪ Mr D, 31, has a severe learning disability and other handicaps.
payment
▪ At the same time, Willingham teaches them how to apply for general relief, food stamps and disability payments.
■ VERB
help
▪ A bank of information is also being set up by the Panel with a view to helping those with disabilities at the Bar.
▪ Now, she helps people with disabilities make the transition from home to workplace by counseling them and their employers.
▪ He wrote the books in 1985 to help people with physical disabilities enjoy electric keyboard music.
increase
▪ There are clear associations between advancing years and increasing disability, and this is particularly steep among the most elderly.
▪ The association between advancing years and increasing rates of disability is illustrated in Figure 7.
▪ Inclusion of the institutional population appears to increase the overall disability prevalence rate by about 6 percent.
▪ Victims slowly lose their sense of pain, develop lesions, and suffer increasing disability and disfigurement.
learn
▪ It is a poor environment for learning correct approaches to disability.
▪ It was found that learning disabilities occurred among work-inhibited stu-dents in virtually the same proportion as in the general population.
▪ Casey is now in a residential school for children with emotional problems and / or learning disabilities.
▪ Ensure that children and young people with learning disabilities have a smoother transition into adulthood and adult service networks.
▪ No sign of a definite learning disability.
▪ More than a million people in Britain have some degree of learning disability, with some 160,000 severely affected.
▪ But most special education students have a variety of more subtle learning disabilities, some of them emotional.
overcome
▪ Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys.
▪ The awards are in recognition of their everyday tasks to help others or for those who have overcome personal illness or disability.
▪ The counsellor may therefore come across many older people who do not want to overcome their illnesses and disabilities.
suffer
▪ The medical staff would like to know if you suffer from any physical disability or illness such as asthma, diabetes or epilepsy.
▪ Suppose I suffered from a reading disability or, worse yet, was illiterate?
▪ Many of the people we care for suffer from other crippling disabilities as well as their blindness.
▪ Nearly 4 % of the babies born in Baia Mare so far this year suffer from serious disabilities.
▪ It is the poverty suffered by pensioners with disabilities which forces them to change their behaviour.
▪ More will suffer basic disabilities like not being able to walk or bath on their own.
▪ Two hundred years ago, those people who drank substantial quantities of cider often suffered a strange disability dubbed the Devonshire colic.
▪ One of the excluded categories related to members who suffered from diseases or disabilities.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Because of his disability, he depended on his wife to dress him, feed him and bathe him.
▪ Eschbach has been living on disability for ten years.
▪ She manages to lead a normal life in spite of her physical disabilities.
▪ Studies say exposure to loud continuous noise can cause learning disabilities and behavioral problems in children.
▪ The group is for people who are learning to live with disability.
▪ There are special courses for people with disabilities.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Casey is now in a residential school for children with emotional problems and / or learning disabilities.
▪ For a young person with a disability or learning difficulty this transition is crucial.
▪ However, mechanical aids can do much to lessen the disability of impaired body structure.
▪ Suppose I suffered from a reading disability or, worse yet, was illiterate?
▪ The progressive form follows a steady pattern of worsening symptoms and disability without periods of remission.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
disability

disability \dis`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Disabilities.

  1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.

    Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.
    --Milton.

    Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability.
    --Bancroft.

  2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.

    The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture.
    --Abbott.

    Syn: Weakness; inability; incompetence; impotence; incapacity; incompetency; disqualification.

    Usage: -- Disability, Inability. Inability is an inherent want of power to perform the thing in question; disability arises from some deprivation or loss of the needed competency. One who becomes deranged is under a disability of holding his estate; and one who is made a judge, of deciding in his own case. A man may decline an office on account of his inability to discharge its duties; he may refuse to accept a trust or employment on account of some disability prevents him from entering into such engagements.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disability

1570s, "want of ability;" see dis- + ability. Related: Disabilities.

Wiktionary
disability

n. 1 State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. 2 Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency. 3 (context uncountable informal English) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state

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WordNet
disability

n. the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment" [syn: disablement, handicap, impairment]

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Wikipedia
Disability

Disability is an impairment that may be physical, cognitive, intellectual, mental, sensory, developmental, or some combination of these that results in restrictions on an individual's ability to participate in what is considered "normal" in their everyday society. A disability may be present from birth or occur during a person's lifetime.

Disability is a contested concept, with different meanings for different communities. On the one hand, it may be used to refer to physical or mental attributes that some institutions, particularly medicine, view as needing to be fixed (the medical model); it may refer to limitations on participation in social life imposed on people by the constraints of an ableist society (the social model); or the term may serve to name a social identity claimed by people with disabilities in order to mark their shared goals and politics.

The contest over disability's definition arose out of disability activism in the U.S. and U.K. in the 1970s, which challenged how medical conceptions of human variation dominated popular discourse about disabilities and how these were reflected in common terminology (e.g., "handicapped," "cripple"). Debates about proper terminology as well as over appropriate models and their implied politics continue in disability communities and the academic field of disability studies. In many countries the law requires that disabilities be clearly categorized and defined in order to assess which citizens qualify for disability benefits.

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Usage examples of "disability".

On the 25th of June amnesty was extended to about one thousand persons, and during the remainder of the Congress some five hundred more were relieved from political disability.

Penfield believed that this lost accessing ability arises from an inadequate blood supply to the hippocampus in old age-because of arteriosclerosis or other physical disabilities.

Only the arthritic swelling and distortion of his finger joints gave any hint of disability or special challenge.

Let the haughty, purse-proud American--in whose warm life current one may trace the unmistakable strains of bichloride of gold and trichinae--pause for one moment to gaze at the coarse features and bloodshot eyes of his ancestors, who sat up at nights drenching their souls in a style of nepenthe that it is said would remove moths, tan, freckles, and political disabilities.

Felix massaged his disability, the torn cruciate ligaments in his right knee.

Van Winkle moved to amend so that a majority of all the members elected to each House should be empowered to remove the disability, instead of two-thirds as required by the amendment.

While the National Government refrained from withholding the elective franchise from men who had fought to destroy the Union, there is no doubt that disabilities and exclusions were imposed upon large classes in certain States of the South.

With a glad heart, the Congress, year after year, removed the political disabilities from class after class of those who had incurred them, until at last all, so desiring, had been reinstated in the full privileges of citizenship, save the very few unrepentant instigators and leaders of the Rebellion, who, in the depths of that oblivion to which they seemingly had been consigned, continued to nurse the bitterness of their downfall into an implacable hatred of that Republic which had paralyzed the bloody hands of Rebellion, and shattered all their ambitious dreams of Oligarchic rule, if not of Empire.

In the land of its birth long-standing political rivalries, combined with a steady decline in the authority and influence exercised by the central government, are contributing to the reemergence of reactionary forces, represented by an as yet influential and fanatical priesthood, to a recrudescence of the persecution, and a multiplication of the disabilities, to which a still unemancipated Faith has been so cruelly subjected for more than a century.

With one senator excluded from voting by parliamentary law and the other absent by reason of physical disability, Mr.

None the less, having the vanity of new clothes and a pretty figure, did we-- especially by the mouth of Andrew Marvell--deride our victors, making sport of the Philistines with a proper national sense of enjoyment of such physical disabilities, or such natural difficulties, or such misfavour of fortune, as may beset the alien.

WISC-R subtests of Arithmetic, Coding, Informationeaand Digit Span are often found to have some type of learning disability.

But in 1777 the electorate was not anxious for reform, and the unenfranchised gave no thought to their political disabilities.

The doctors began to think the woman was malingering to get on disability herself.

On top of that, they were developed to measure things like learning disabilities and giftedness, not homicidal behavior.