| Webster's Online Dictionary |
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| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun disability.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (disability) |
1. The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability".[Wordnet]. 2. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.[Websters]. 3. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.[Websters]. | |
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Date "Disabilities" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1770. (references) |
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| Committee on Gender, Family, Youths and People with Disabilities | The Committee on Gender, Family, Youths and People with Disabilities of the Pan-African Parliament concentrates on issues concerning women, family and people and children with disabilities. (references) | ||
| European Year of People with Disabilities | The year 2003 was designated the European Year of People with Disabilities (EYPD) by the European Commission. It is sometimes called the European Year of Disabled People. (references) | ||
| Individuals with Disabilities Education Act | The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a United States law, most recently amended in 2004, meant to ensure "a free appropriate public education" for students with disabilities, designed to their individualized needs in the Least Restricted Environment. The act requires that public schools provide necessary learning aids, testing modifications and other educational accommodations to children with disabilities. The act also establishes due process in providing these accommodations. Children whose learning is hampered by disabilities not interfering with his/her ability to function in a general classroom, may qualify for similar accommodations under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). (references) | ||
| International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities | The International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities is hosted each year by the California State University, Northridge. (references) | ||
| National Bureau for Students With Disabilities | Skill: National Bureau for Students With Disabilities is a UK charity promoting opportunities for people with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK. (references) | ||
| Ontarians with Disabilities Act | The Ontarians with Disabilities Act is the short title of the Ontario Government's Bill 125 - "An Act to improve the identification, removal and prevention of barriers faced by persons with disabilities and to make related amendments to other Acts". The Act received Royal Assent on 14 December 2001 and came into force on February 7 2002. (references) | ||
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| Disabilities products | Art | A variety of hardware and software options for users having certain types of disabilities. The Trace R&D Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison produces both a Trace Resource Book and a CD-ROM that describes computer products for persons with disabilities. An evaluation service is available from the National Information System, Center for Developmental Disabilities, Benson Building, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. Mike Paciello has a good paper with links at http://www.w3j.com/5/s3.paciello.html. I also recommend that you use the search term "disabilities" at http://www.cmptv.com/. See also Speech recognition and Text reading. (references) | |
| Disability, disabilities | Civil Rights | Discapacidad, discapacidades. (references) | |
| Federal Employment for Persons with Disabilities | Finance | The Federal Government's Selective Placement programs include special hiring authorities for hiring people with disabilities. Applicants interested in being considered under these special authorities should contact a State vocational rehabilitation agency or, if you are a veteran, a Department of Veteran's Affairs vocational rehabilitation counselor, and request his/her assistance in obtaining a "certification" statement documenting a disability. (references) | |
| Person with disabilities | Planning | Means a household composed of one or more persons, at least one of whom is an adult, who has a disability. (references) | |
| Targeted Disabilities | Occupations | The EEOC identified nine categories of severe disabilities as targeted disabilities for tracking purposes in an agency's federal affirmative employment program for individuals with disabilities. These disabilities include: deafness, blindness, missing limbs, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, convulsive disorders, mental illness, mental retardation, and distortion of limbs or spine. (references) | |
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| Language | Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses) | |||
| Al Arabiya | عجز (disability, incapability, posterior, failure, infirmity), عاهَة (handicap, deformities, deformity, disabilities, disability), عَجْز (decrepitude, deficiency, deficit, disability, failure), حلقة العمل الدولية المعنية بتطوير ونشر الإحصاءات المتعلقة بالمعوقين (international workshop on development and dissemination of statistics on persons with disabilities, international workshop on the development and dissemination of statistics on persons with disabilities), العقد الأفريقي للمعوقين (African decade of people with disabilities), إعلان بانكوك للألفية بشأن تعزيز حقوق المعوقين في منطقة آسيا والمحيط الهادئ (Bangkok millennium declaration on the promotion of the rights of people with disabilities in the Asian and Pacific region), إعلان بيجين بشأن وضع اتفاقية دولية لتعزيز وحماية حقوق المعوقين وكرامتهم (Beijing declaration on elaboration of an international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities), إعلان بيجين المتعلق بحقوق المعوقين في القرن الجديد (Beijing declaration on the rights of people with disabilities in the new century), الاتفاقية الدولية الشاملة المتكاملة لحماية وتعزيز حقوق المعوقين وكرامتهم (comprehensive and integral international convention on protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities), المؤتمر المعني بالتخلف العقلي والعجز في النمو (congress on mental retardation and developmental disabilities). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Al Fus-Ha | عجز (disability, incapability, posterior, failure, infirmity), عاهَة (handicap, deformities, deformity, disabilities, disability), عَجْز (decrepitude, deficiency, deficit, disability, failure), حلقة العمل الدولية المعنية بتطوير ونشر الإحصاءات المتعلقة بالمعوقين (international workshop on development and dissemination of statistics on persons with disabilities, international workshop on the development and dissemination of statistics on persons with disabilities), العقد الأفريقي للمعوقين (African decade of people with disabilities), إعلان بانكوك للألفية بشأن تعزيز حقوق المعوقين في منطقة آسيا والمحيط الهادئ (Bangkok millennium declaration on the promotion of the rights of people with disabilities in the Asian and Pacific region), إعلان بيجين بشأن وضع اتفاقية دولية لتعزيز وحماية حقوق المعوقين وكرامتهم (Beijing declaration on elaboration of an international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities), إعلان بيجين المتعلق بحقوق المعوقين في القرن الجديد (Beijing declaration on the rights of people with disabilities in the new century), الاتفاقية الدولية الشاملة المتكاملة لحماية وتعزيز حقوق المعوقين وكرامتهم (comprehensive and integral international convention on protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities), المؤتمر المعني بالتخلف العقلي والعجز في النمو (congress on mental retardation and developmental disabilities). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Arabic | عجز (disability, incapability, posterior, failure, infirmity), عاهَة (handicap, deformities, deformity, disabilities, disability), عَجْز (decrepitude, deficiency, deficit, disability, failure), حلقة العمل الدولية المعنية بتطوير ونشر الإحصاءات المتعلقة بالمعوقين (international workshop on development and dissemination of statistics on persons with disabilities, international workshop on the development and dissemination of statistics on persons with disabilities), العقد الأفريقي للمعوقين (African decade of people with disabilities), إعلان بانكوك للألفية بشأن تعزيز حقوق المعوقين في منطقة آسيا والمحيط الهادئ (Bangkok millennium declaration on the promotion of the rights of people with disabilities in the Asian and Pacific region), إعلان بيجين بشأن وضع اتفاقية دولية لتعزيز وحماية حقوق المعوقين وكرامتهم (Beijing declaration on elaboration of an international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities), إعلان بيجين المتعلق بحقوق المعوقين في القرن الجديد (Beijing declaration on the rights of people with disabilities in the new century), الاتفاقية الدولية الشاملة المتكاملة لحماية وتعزيز حقوق المعوقين وكرامتهم (comprehensive and integral international convention on protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities), المؤتمر المعني بالتخلف العقلي والعجز في النمو (congress on mental retardation and developmental disabilities). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bahasa Indonesia | kelumpuhan (paralysis, disability, consternation, disabilities, stupefaction). Additional references: Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesia, Java, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Bohemian | diskvalifikace (disability, disqualification, disabilities, incapacity), neschopnosti (disabilities, inabilities). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Brazilian Portuguese | inabilidades (disabilities). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Central Danish | udygtigheder (disabilities). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Cestina | diskvalifikace (disability, disqualification, disabilities, incapacity), neschopnosti (disabilities, inabilities). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Simplified | 残疾 (deformity on a person or animal, disability, disabilities), 心智残障问题国际专业人员最高级会议 (international professional summit on mental disabilities), 拟订残疾人机会平等标准规则的不限成员名额特设工作组 (ad hoc open-ended working group to elaborate standard rules on the equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities), 非洲残疾人十年 (African decade of people with disabilities), 促进亚洲及太平洋区域残疾人权利曼谷千年宣言 (Bangkok millennium declaration on the promotion of the rights of people with disabilities in the Asian and pacific region), 关于拟订促进和保障残疾人权利与尊严国际公约的北京宣言 (Beijing declaration on elaboration of an international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities), 新世纪残疾人权利北京宣言 (Beijing declaration on the rights of people with disabilities in the new century), 保护和促进残疾人权利和尊严的全面综合国际公约 (comprehensive and integral international convention on protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities), 弱智和发育缺陷问题大会 (congress on mental retardation and developmental disabilities), 歧视残疾人 (discrimination against persons with disabilities). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Chinese Traditional | 生理殘障 (disabilities, disability). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Czech | diskvalifikace (disability, disqualification, disabilities, incapacity), neschopnosti (disabilities, inabilities). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Daco-Rumanian | neputinta (disabilities, disability, impotence, infirmities, infirmity). Additional references: Daco-Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Danish | udygtigheder (disabilities). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Dansk | udygtigheder (disabilities). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Dari | ناتهانى (debility, disabilities, disability, failure, failures). Additional references: Dari, Iran, Indo-European, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Deutsch | Unvermögen (incapability, disabilities, disability, impotence, inability), Körperbehinderungen (disabilities), Behinderungen (handicaps, obstructions, disabilities, impairments). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Dutch | invaliditeit (disability, disabilities, disablement, invalidity), belemmeringen (disabilities). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Finnish | invaliditeetti (disability, disabilities, invalidity). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Français | invalidités (disabilities), incapacités (inabilities, disabilities, incapabilities, incapacities), des incapacités (disabilities). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| French | invalidités (disabilities), incapacités (inabilities, disabilities, incapabilities, incapacities), des incapacités (disabilities). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| German | Unvermögen (incapability, disabilities, disability, impotence, inability), Körperbehinderungen (disabilities), Behinderungen (handicaps, obstructions, disabilities, impairments). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Greek | αναπηρ α (disabilities, disability, disablement, incapacitation). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Greek (transliteration) | anapir a (disabilities, disability, disablement, incapacitation). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hebrew | תוכנ (disabilities, disability). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High Arabic | عجز (disability, incapability, posterior, failure, infirmity), عاهَة (handicap, deformities, deformity, disabilities, disability), عَجْز (decrepitude, deficiency, deficit, disability, failure), حلقة العمل الدولية المعنية بتطوير ونشر الإحصاءات المتعلقة بالمعوقين (international workshop on development and dissemination of statistics on persons with disabilities, international workshop on the development and dissemination of statistics on persons with disabilities), العقد الأفريقي للمعوقين (African decade of people with disabilities), إعلان بانكوك للألفية بشأن تعزيز حقوق المعوقين في منطقة آسيا والمحيط الهادئ (Bangkok millennium declaration on the promotion of the rights of people with disabilities in the Asian and Pacific region), إعلان بيجين بشأن وضع اتفاقية دولية لتعزيز وحماية حقوق المعوقين وكرامتهم (Beijing declaration on elaboration of an international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities), إعلان بيجين المتعلق بحقوق المعوقين في القرن الجديد (Beijing declaration on the rights of people with disabilities in the new century), الاتفاقية الدولية الشاملة المتكاملة لحماية وتعزيز حقوق المعوقين وكرامتهم (comprehensive and integral international convention on protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities), المؤتمر المعني بالتخلف العقلي والعجز في النمو (congress on mental retardation and developmental disabilities). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| High German | Unvermögen (incapability, disabilities, disability, impotence, inability), Körperbehinderungen (disabilities), Behinderungen (handicaps, obstructions, disabilities, impairments). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hmong | muaj mob ua rau (learning disabilities). Additional references: Hmong, China, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Hochdeutsch | Unvermögen (incapability, disabilities, disability, impotence, inability), Körperbehinderungen (disabilities), Behinderungen (handicaps, obstructions, disabilities, impairments). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Indonesian | kelumpuhan (paralysis, disability, consternation, disabilities, stupefaction). Additional references: Indonesian, Indonesia, Java, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Italian | menomazioni (disabilities), incapacità (inability, incapability, incapacity, disability, disqualification). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ivrit | תוכנ (disabilities, disability). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Japanese | ADA法 (Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Kisuaheli | kilema (cripple, deformity, disability, disablement, cripples). Additional references: Kisuaheli, Tanzania, Burundi, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Kiswahili | kilema (cripple, deformity, disability, disablement, cripples). Additional references: Kiswahili, Tanzania, Burundi, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Moldavian | neputinta (disabilities, disability, impotence, infirmities, infirmity). Additional references: Moldavian, Romania, Hungary, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Norwegian | udyktigheter (disabilities), Uførheter (disabilities). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Parsi | ناتهانى (debility, disabilities, disability, failure, failures). Additional references: Parsi, Iran, Indo-European, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Persian | ناتهانى (debility, disabilities, disability, failure, failures). Additional references: Persian, Iran, Indo-European, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Persian (Farsi) | ناتهانى (debility, disabilities, disability, failure, failures). Additional references: Persian (Farsi), Iran, Indo-European, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Polish | inwalidztwo (disability, disabilities, disablement, a disability). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Polnisch | inwalidztwo (disability, disabilities, disablement, a disability). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Polski | inwalidztwo (disability, disabilities, disablement, a disability). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Portuguese | invalidezes (disabilities), inabilidades (inabilities, disabilities). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Romanian | neputinta (disabilities, disability, impotence, infirmities, infirmity). Additional references: Romanian, Romania, Hungary, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Rumanian | neputinta (disabilities, disability, impotence, infirmities, infirmity). Additional references: Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ruotsi | invaliditeter (disabilities). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russian | бессили (disabilities), инвалиды (invalids, disabled, disabled people, disabled persons, people with disabilities), дискриминация в отношении инвалидов (discrimination against persons with disabilities). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russian (transliteration) | bessili (disabilities), invalidy (invalids, disabled, disabled people, disabled persons, people with disabilities), diskriminatsiya v otnoshenii invalidov (discrimination against persons with disabilities). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russki | бессили (disabilities), инвалиды (invalids, disabled, disabled people, disabled persons, people with disabilities), дискриминация в отношении инвалидов (discrimination against persons with disabilities). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Russki (transliteration) | bessili (disabilities), invalidy (invalids, disabled, disabled people, disabled persons, people with disabilities), diskriminatsiya v otnoshenii invalidov (discrimination against persons with disabilities). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Sjaelland | udygtigheder (disabilities). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Spanish | incapacidades (disabilities, incapacitates, inabilities, incapabilities, ineptitudes), invalideces (disabilities), trabajadores con discapacidades (disabilities), Incapacitados (disabled, disabilities), discapacitados (disabilities, disabled), con alguna discapacidad (disabilities). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Suomea | invaliditeetti (disability, disabilities, invalidity). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Suomi | invaliditeetti (disability, disabilities, invalidity). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Svenska | invaliditeter (disabilities). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Swahili | kilema (cripple, deformity, disability, disablement, cripples). Additional references: Swahili, Tanzania, Burundi, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Swedish | invaliditeter (disabilities). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Turkish | sakatlık (disability, disablement, deformity, malformation, defect). Additional references: Turkish, Turkey, Bulgaria, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ukrainian | Неспроможностў (disabilities, disability). Additional references: Ukrainian, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Ukrainian (transliteration) | nespromozhnostў (disabilities, disability). Additional references: Ukrainian, disabilities. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
| Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). | Top | |||
| Language | Translations for “disabilities” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses. | |||
| Pig Latin | isabilitiesday (disabilities). Additional references: Pig Latin, disabilities. (volunteer) | |||
| Terran B | incapacitn (disabilities). Additional references: Terran B, disabilities. (volunteer) | |||
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