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Disability in sentence

296 examples of Disability in a sentence

For every 100 girls with a learning disability, there are 276 boys.
And as a teacher of yoga, he brings that experience to others across the spectrum of ability and disability, health, illness and aging.
As a child, I struggled with my disability.
She will never be faced with the crippling disability of polio, because a vaccine was available, and I chose to get her immunized.
You don't need to have a disability to know that.
And I set up Kanchi, because my organization was always going to be named after my elephant, because disability is like the elephant in the room.
But I wanted to work only and truly with business and media leadership to totally reframe disability in a way that was exciting and possible.
So if we could figure out what cells they are, we could maybe find new targets for which drugs can be designed or screened against or maybe places where electrodes could be put in for people who have severe disability.
We see the same thing with the disability rights movement.
And by leveraging these sorts of technologies, we're going to change the definition of disability to, in some cases, be superability, or super-enabling.
You don't see a refugee first and you don't see a woman first and you don't see a person with disability first.
The World Health Organization tells us that depression is the number one disease on Earth in terms of years lived with disability.
We find that the number two source of disability is depression in the age group of 15 to 44.
But that person could be identified as having a learning disability.
And I found myself looking at the Paralympics and thinking how incredible how technology's been harnessed to prove beyond doubt that disability is no barrier to the highest levels of sporting achievement.
Of course there's a grimmer side to that truth, which is that it's actually taken decades for the world at large to come to a position of trust, to really believe that disability and sports can go together in a convincing and interesting fashion.
I think this was a time when my family really began to realize what disability meant to some people: fear.
But I was learning as my friends were, and people I didn't know around the country, that we had to be our own advocates, that we needed to fight back people's view that if you had a disability, you needed to be cured, that equality was not part of the equation.
And what was born is what we call today the Disability Rights Movement.
I encourage you all to recognize that disability is a family you can join at any point in your life.
Arm amputation causes a huge disability.
And actually, I spend as much of my time in clinic dealing with the emotional adjustment of patients as with the physical disability.
And it's easy for me as well to train someone who has already passed through the experience of disability.
I discovered that under Australian law, cancer is considered a disability.
So if you are unable to perform your usual work duties, your employer is obligated by the Disability Discrimination Act to make reasonable adjustments to your working arrangements, so that you can continue to work.
You can't tell me that there aren't millions upon millions of prodigiously gifted musicians of disability around the world.
And this one's the biggest growth industry of all, and at least six out of 10 of the people in this room will die in this form, which is the dwindling of capacity with increasing frailty, and frailty's an inevitable part of aging, and increasing frailty is in fact the main thing that people die of now, and the last few years, or the last year of your life is spent with a great deal of disability, unfortunately.
When you go from a world where you treated arthritis with aspirin, that mostly didn't do the job, to one where, if it gets bad enough, we can do a hip replacement, a knee replacement that gives you years, maybe decades, without disability, a dramatic change, well is it any surprise that that $40,000 hip replacement replacing the 10-cent aspirin is more expensive?
And yet we see unconscionable levels of death, disability that could be avoided.
Or this is a project from the ITP part of NYU, where they met with this boy who has a severe disability, cannot play with the PS3, so they built this device that allows the kid to play baseball although he has limited movement capability.
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