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An environmental control device is a form of electronic assistive technology which enables people with significant disabilities to independently access equipment in their environment e.g. home or hospital. An environmental control controller is the device that controls the equipment – like a remote control.
People with disabilities in the United States are a significant minority group, making up a fifth of the overall population and over half of Americans older than eighty. [1] [2] There is a complex history underlying the U.S. and its relationship with its disabled population, with great progress being made in the last century to improve the livelihood of disabled citizens through legislation ...
Being informed of alternatives to choose what is best for them by themselves and ultimately in control of their welfare. The program advocates for ideas such as self-help and advocacy, peer counseling from others in a similar situation, and the removal of environmental obstacles and societal attitudes. This attitude would be considered radical ...
Older women are more likely to be disabled than younger women. [23] The most common disability affecting elderly women worldwide is osteoarthritis. [52] Older women who have disabilities that affect their mobility are at risk of losing contact with their communities and may experience degraded life outcomes associated as a result. [53]
As a result of that directive, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took down publicly available health information, such as HIV datasets, and withdrew research papers that were ...
The National Disabled Women's Educational Equity Project was established by Corbett O'Toole in Berkeley, California, in 1980. [1] It was a three-year research and demonstration project. [ 2 ] Based at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), the Project administered the first national survey on disability and gender. [ 1 ]
Her 2009 book, The Environment and the People in American Cities: 1600s-1900s, was the first history of environmental injustice in America. Her 2014 book Toxic Communities has been hailed as a "standard-bearer" for environmental justice scholarship. [4] Her book, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement is a "sweeping social history" that ...
Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being is a report issued in 2011 by the United States Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration and the Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget for the White House Council on Women and Girls, during the administration of President Barack Obama. [1]