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296 examples of Disability in a sentence

It's directly related to intellectual disability and breast cancer.
And he got his disability for himself and his family.
She often contemplated the physical and psychological effects of disability in her work; painting herself in agony, recuperating from operations, or including objects such as her back brace and wheelchair.
On paper, of course, I was better: I didn't have leukemia, my blood counts were back to normal, and the disability checks soon stopped coming.
I learned that a patient of mine who spoke English without accent was illiterate, when he asked me to please sign a social security disability form for him right away.
But when they don't, they have others who can advocate for them, who can get them that disability placard or make sure the disability application is completed.
And interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability?
When she got to medical school, she was taking just a standard class quiz, and she got asked the question, "Please tell us about the first time you encountered someone with a disability."
She wondered if her supervisors had ever considered that the person with the disability was her, the doctor.
The World Health Organization says that depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide, affecting 350 million people.
I find many advantages to having a disability, and I'm not just talking about the money I save on gloves ... (Laughter) or the fantastically legitimate excuse for never having to master chopsticks.
Yet, I continued to pursue my dream of working all over the world, and was even appointed as a disability focal point for UNICEF in Haiti, where I served for two years after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
And the World Health Organization predicts by the year 2020 that depression will be the second largest cause of disability.
Psychologists around the world still use IQ tests to identify intellectual disability, and the results can be used to determine appropriate educational support, job training, and assisted living.
There are one billion people on our planet that experience some type of disability.
Implicit in this phrase of "overcoming adversity" is the idea that success, or happiness, is about emerging on the other side of a challenging experience unscathed or unmarked by the experience, as if my successes in life have come about from an ability to sidestep or circumnavigate the presumed pitfalls of a life with prosthetics, or what other people perceive as my disability.
And, truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I've had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.
So, I think that the only true disability is a crushed spirit, a spirit that's been crushed doesn't have hope, it doesn't see beauty, it no longer has our natural, childlike curiosity and our innate ability to imagine.
There may come a time when we meddle with our genomes in such a way that not being able to run a marathon at age 200 will be considered a profound disability.
By this, I mean how many of you have cared for someone suffering from an illness, injury or disability?
He was a very good golfer, but he had a disability.
The disability, though, has shifted : Audrey Hepburn couldn't see, the child in DS cannot speak.
I found the film was great and getting to grips with the two main characters disability, this was represented in a great performance by both two Michael and Rory.
When a newcomer to the home, Rory (McAvoy), befriends him, he proceeds to show Michael how to live past the disability.
Despite, or maybe because of, Rory's crippling disability (unable to move all but his head and a few digits on his hand), Rory is fiercely independent, and extremely rebellious.
There are a number of thrillers that focus on a certain disability - blindness is more common (Blind Terror, Wait Until Dark, Cat o'Nine Tails to name a handful), but the implications of having a mute lead in a thriller such as this are well portrayed, and actually integral to the plot as the fact that the lead character can't speak is often the reason why she finds herself in dangerous situations that would be easy for anyone else to get out of.
The story of two friends, linked by their suffers of bodily disability, whom (as a team) beat the medical well-fare system and fight for their rights.
A stunning film which brought into the open so much about disability that generally makes people afraid.
It forced the old guy to mask the injury out of pride and so the young guy would feel guilty leaving him with a life long disability.
his own disability?
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