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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
handicapped
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mentally handicapped
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
mentally
▪ Many families keep their mentally handicapped children and adults at home.
▪ The numbers of people in mentally handicapped hospitals rose sharply from around 5,000 in 1918 to 50,000 by 1940.
▪ In addition 3,000 mentally handicapped and 200,000 mentally ill people were seen as new out-patients that year.
▪ Considerable progress has been made in the education of mentally handicapped people since the legislation in 1971.
▪ In addition there were another 550 schools for physically handicapped pupils which would include some mentally handicapped pupils who are also physically handicapped.
▪ They entertain the elderly and mentally handicapped and are short of clubs.
▪ Read in studio Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who's been missing for three days.
▪ Macintyre works with mentally handicapped people, setting up residential homes and finding them rewarding work.
physically
▪ The physically handicapped youngster faces severe problems in finding employment.
▪ Disabled Students Physically handicapped students may be assured that their applications will be considered on the academic grounds applying to all candidates.
▪ Dozens of teenage volunteers were bussed in on Tuesday evening for a dance with mentally and physically handicapped patients.
▪ In addition there were another 550 schools for physically handicapped pupils which would include some mentally handicapped pupils who are also physically handicapped.
▪ That means meeting the needs of the exceptionally gifted as well as those of the physically handicapped and socially deprived.
▪ The venue is home to about 200 mentally and physically handicapped students.
▪ It has made physically handicapped people keen to stress that they are not mentally handicapped, not stupid.
▪ This preparation eased the way for further integration of physically handicapped children into the mixed ability secondary school.
severely
▪ For example, the Rowntree Trust Family Fund has been helpful to families with severely handicapped children.
▪ More severely handicapped people often suffer from physical as well as mental disabilities.
▪ A family with a severely handicapped child will have many problems.
▪ Mencap's Day Services campaign indicates that the most desperate need is for the severely handicapped and those with behavioural difficulties.
visually
▪ The incidents related in her story, however, are drawn from actual experiences of visually handicapped pupils.
▪ Ways in which mobility can be made easier for visually handicapped pupils are discussed in the section on mobility in Chapter 6.
▪ Specialised equipment and materials required for visually handicapped pupils can pose a storage problem.
▪ Décor can be used imaginatively and helpfully as an aid to location for visually handicapped pupils.
▪ There are some practical considerations that must be faced in terms of support for visually handicapped pupils who are being educated in resource situations.
▪ The specialist teacher may find that some visually handicapped pupils require direct support teaching sessions.
▪ For some visually handicapped children the amount of glare caused by various forms of lighting adds considerably to their difficulties.
▪ Magnification, however, is not useful for every visually handicapped child.
■ NOUN
baby
▪ In less imaginative hands, Liz - an unmarried and uncommunicative mum of a handicapped baby - would surely come a cropper.
▪ When and if this occurs, decisions about mentally handicapped babies will be made with a full consideration of the issues involved.
▪ Although I said to my husband when I was pregnant, what if I have a handicapped baby?
▪ It is an important protection against behaving in unprofessional ways like procuring an illegal abortion or killing a handicapped baby.
child
▪ More help should also be available for the parents of younger handicapped children under the new legislation.
▪ She was a single parent and had a nine-year-old son, Darren, who was in a home for mentally handicapped children.
▪ Mentally handicapped children should be given the opportunity of mixing with other children from an early age.
▪ The chances of having a severely mentally handicapped child are one in 200.
▪ For example, the Rowntree Trust Family Fund has been helpful to families with severely handicapped children.
▪ She also runs a playgroup for able bodied and handicapped children. £500 was split between the two groups.
▪ Wherever possible, mentally handicapped children should attend normal schools, and thousands of mildly handicapped children do so.
people
▪ It is said that mentally handicapped people die young.
▪ One reason for this is that mentally handicapped people are living longer, and this is balancing out the reduction in admissions.
▪ It is wrong to assume that mentally handicapped people would, or should, remain at home into adulthood.
▪ Considerable progress has been made in the education of mentally handicapped people since the legislation in 1971.
▪ This, in turn, implies that a range of personnel will be deployed to support mentally handicapped people in different ways.
▪ This would involve four handicapped people and four helpers.
▪ More severely handicapped people often suffer from physical as well as mental disabilities.
▪ Macintyre works with mentally handicapped people, setting up residential homes and finding them rewarding work.
person
▪ Firstly, it depicted the life of a mentally handicapped person as being unrewarding, unstimulating and confined.
▪ Each helper only works with one handicapped person.
▪ They will probably not have spent any amount of time with a mentally handicapped person or really know how they behave.
▪ For the first time, he said, the winner was a mentally handicapped person.
▪ Social workers are needed to help the families of mentally handicapped persons as well as the mentally ill or handicapped themselves.
▪ The mentally handicapped person should, wherever possible, be encouraged to live outside his or her home with a view to eventual independence.
▪ The maximum number of persons in each group must be fourteen i.e. six handicapped persons and eight helpers.
pupil
▪ The incidents related in her story, however, are drawn from actual experiences of visually handicapped pupils.
▪ Ways in which mobility can be made easier for visually handicapped pupils are discussed in the section on mobility in Chapter 6.
▪ Specialised equipment and materials required for visually handicapped pupils can pose a storage problem.
▪ The skilful use of a piece of interesting technology by a visually handicapped pupil can become a source of pride rather than embarrassment.
▪ Décor can be used imaginatively and helpfully as an aid to location for visually handicapped pupils.
▪ There are some practical considerations that must be faced in terms of support for visually handicapped pupils who are being educated in resource situations.
▪ In addition there were another 550 schools for physically handicapped pupils which would include some mentally handicapped pupils who are also physically handicapped.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a school for mentally handicapped children
▪ She works with handicapped teenagers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A family with a severely handicapped child will have many problems.
▪ Access to further and higher education has been unduly restricted for handicapped children and this should be improved.
▪ Although the kangaroo has a fast turn of speed on the plan, he is handicapped when climbing trees.
▪ In less imaginative hands, Liz - an unmarried and uncommunicative mum of a handicapped baby - would surely come a cropper.
▪ Like other mentally handicapped children, Down's children can achieve considerable educational improvement through a consistent programme of education and care.
▪ Mentally handicapped man in motiveless gang attack.
▪ The need for the adequate provision of permanent residential homes increases substantially as the mentally handicapped child grows up.
▪ The Ormerod School educates handicapped children from Oxfordshire.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handicapped

Handicap \Hand"i*cap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handicapped (-k[a^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Handicapping.] To encumber with a handicap in any contest; hence, in general, to place at disadvantage; as, the candidate was heavily handicapped.

Handicapped

Handicapped \Hand"i*capped\ (h[a^]nd"[i^]*k[a^]pt), a. suffering from a handicap (in senses 4 or 5); disabled; at a disadvantage.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
handicapped

"disabled," 1915, past participle adjective from handicap (v.). Originally especially of children. Meaning "handicapped persons generally" is attested by 1958.

Wiktionary
handicapped

  1. 1 Having a handicap. 2 (context derogatory English) Limited by an impediment of some kind. n. (context India English) A disabled person. v

  2. (en-past of: handicap)

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WordNet
handicapped

See handicap

handicap

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

  2. advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning

  3. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress [syn: hindrance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check]

  4. [also: handicapping, handicapped]

handicapped

adj. incapacitated by injury or illness [syn: disabled, incapacitated]

handicap

  1. v. injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident" [syn: disable, invalid, incapacitate]

  2. attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant

  3. put at a disadvantage; "The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements" [syn: hinder, hamper]

  4. [also: handicapping, handicapped]

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Usage examples of "handicapped".

Instead, as soon as he had the wounded man in the wheelchair, he rolled him out of the drive, through the areaway, and around the house to the handicapped entrance at the far side.

Had it not been for the canes held so tightly in his hand, Sam might have been able to believe he was not handicapped.

Certainly people wore out early from hard work, and there were always those handicapped older ones who had come out of cryonic suspension with a kind of freezer-burn that slowed them down, or limited their abilities, but otherwise people were pretty healthy.

Fisher was actually a very powerful personnot a drooly, not handicapped, not a cripple, but the captain and commander of a delicate mission to O-Zone.

Although our Ostrogoths were handicapped by waterlogged armor and numbed limbs, they so heavily outnumbered the Gepids that they likewise fought off their assailants, then threw them backward.

In the dorm to which I had been assigned housemother, five of the young boys were not only legally blind but were handicapped in other ways, too.

Why should these handicapped immortals not compensate by discovering nonferrous metals and the properties of their alloys?

Martha, the maid, almost filled the kitchen, but did not seem discomfited, nor, the Norths noted thankfully, handicapped.

Bulan, notwithstanding the running battle the two bulls were forcing upon him, was gaining steadily upon the fleeing ourang outang that was handicapped by the weight of the fair captive he bore in his huge, hairy arms.

He had now been in Formosa about two months and had studied the Chinese language every waking hour, but it was very difficult, and he found his usually ready tongue wofully handicapped.

Round the end of the kitchen table he turned on the radio which eagerly informed him that a group of handicapped mountainclimbers had carried an American flag and a bag of jellybeans to the summit of Mount Rainier before he could bend to turn the dial, slowly, bringing in the full chord of a cello.

Almost everybody with a stake in the law has lobbyists at work in Tallahasseenot just wealthy phosphate barons and liquor distributors and utility companies, but teachers and conservation groups and the handicapped.

The Market of the Lost and Oldtown were not places where it was wise to let others see her handicapped in any way.

Produced in braille for the Library of Congress, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, by Clovernook Printing House for the Blind, 2000.

I look forward to the day when the LifeShield symbol is as commonplace as an auto-club sticker or a credit-card logo, when a gun-free environment is no longer a saleable curiosity, but a basic expectation, like air conditioning or handicapped accessibility.