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2. Speech and language impairment - Wikipedia

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   Speech and language impairment are basic categories that might be drawn in issues of communication involve hearing, speech, language, and fluency. A speech impairment is characterized by difficulty in articulation of words. Examples include stuttering or problems producing particular sounds. Articulation refers to the sounds, syllables, and ...

3. Timeline of disability rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Disability rights advocates Patrisha Wright of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), and Evan Kemp Jr. (of the Disability Rights Center) led an intense lobbying and grassroots campaign that generated more than 40,000 cards and letters. After three years, the Reagan Administration abandoned its attempts to revoke or amend the ...

4. Augmentative and alternative communication - Wikipedia

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   The poet and author Christy Brown describes his communication breakthrough at 5 years in the book My Left Foot. An evaluation of an individual's abilities, limitations and communication needs is necessary to select appropriate AAC techniques. The purpose of the assessment is to identify potential AAC approaches that can bridge discrepancies between a potential user's current communication and ...

5. Hollywood Studios Urged to Hire Disability Officers in Letter ...

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   As Hollywood continues its ongoing fight for increased diversity and representation across the industry, disability is rarely included. Entrepreneur and disability activist Keely Cat-Wells is ...

6. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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   Lists. v. t. e. The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1]

7. Disability - Wikipedia

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   Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. [1] Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or a combination of multiple factors. Disabilities can be present from birth or can be ...

8. Fetterman chokes up during hearing on disability access - AOL

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   Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) choked up while talking about struggles that people with disabilities face during a Thursday hearing of the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

9. Stuttering - Wikipedia

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   Stuttering, also known as stammering, is a speech disorder characterized externally by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words, or phrases as well as involuntary silent pauses called blocks in which the person who stutters is unable to produce sounds. [2][3] According to adults who stutter, however, stuttering is ...