Sentences with phrase «severe psychiatric disabilities»

«The Fair Housing Project of Legal Aid is committed to ensuring that individuals with severe psychiatric disabilities, just like all residents of North Carolina, are able to benefit from the protections of the Fair Housing Act,» said Lauren Brasil, one of the attorneys at the Fair Housing Project who represented the client.

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- In recognition of his work to understand and improve treatments for psychiatric conditions including autism and severe intellectual disability, the White House on Monday, Jan. 9, named Dr. Eric Morrow as winner of a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering.

Service dogs are dogs (and in some cases, miniature horses) trained to perform major life tasks to assist people with physical or severe psychiatric impairments / disabilities.

Unlike other service dogs (or assistance, support, or helper dogs), who are trained to perform major everyday tasks for people with physical disabilities, psychiatric service dogs (PSDs) are individually trained to help people with emotional or psychiatric disabilities including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, and severe depression.

Intellectual disability (ID) affects 143/10 000 children1 and is associated with a range of comorbid health conditions.2 — 4 It is heterogeneous, 5 and clustering of some medical conditions may be associated with particular disorders such as Down syndrome6 or Prader - Willi syndrome.7 While epilepsy and sensory impairments often occur in association with specific syndromes or more severe cognitive impairment, conditions such as fractures or obesity may develop as secondary to medication use, nutritional deficiency or lack of mobility.2 Consequently, children with ID may face greater health challenges than typically developing children and use healthcare systems more frequently.8, 9 Mental health problems are also common in people with ID.10 For instance, in a Canadian adolescent and adult population with ID, a high proportion of hospitalisations was attributed to the presence of psychiatric conditions.11

For nearly three decades he provided or supervised counseling and psychological services for people with a wide range of disabilities (chronic and severe psychiatric diagnoses, deafness, developmental disabilities, stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and other disabilities) across the lifespan.

The award was bestowed in recognition of his work on understanding and improving treatments for psychiatric conditions including autism and severe intellectual disability.