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Intellectual Disability: Some Current Issues

Public Health, Disability Studies (Edited Series), Medicine and Health
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Intellectual disability is characterized by deficits in cognitive and adaptive abilities that initially manifest before 18 years of age. The prevalence of intellectual disability is estimated to be between 1 and 3 out of every 100 individuals in the general population. Most individuals have mild intellectual disability and the cause is generally not identified. A…
Virtual Reality: Rehabilitation in Motor, Cognitive and Sensorial Disorders

Public Health, Disability Studies (Edited Series), Medicine and Health
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Over the past twenty years, groups of therapists, researchers and engineers have seized the potential of virtual reality (VR) and its associated technologies to work together on designing and testing a great variety of rehabilitation devices and systems with the objective of improving the support for people with disabilities. Virtual reality technologies offer new paradigms…
Virtual Reality: People with Special Needs

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Special Topics, Medicine and Health
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The use of virtual reality for learning, training, and rehabilitation for people with special needs has been on the rise in recent years. Virtual reality allows the user to be trained, to gather information and to perform rehabilitation tasks in the virtual reality space. It allows the user to perform independently, safely, and efficiently, in…
Technology, Rehabilitation and Empowerment of People with Special Needs

Public Health, Disability Studies (Edited Series), Medicine and Health
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The digitalization of society is spreading around the world and technology has become part of many people’s daily lives. It acts as a means of communication, work, education and leisure. For populations with special needs (people with some kind of disability or disorder) technology can play an essential role in their rehabilitation and treatment. It…
Recent Advances on Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Rehabilitation

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Special Topics, Medicine and Health
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In recent years, there has been a blossoming use of advanced technologies across a wide range of applications in the general area of health care and clinical practice; one such genre is the use of virtual reality technologies for the rehabilitation and support of people with disabilities. This development has been driven by a combination…
Pediatric Pain: Current Aspects

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Pediatrics, Pain Management, Medicine and Health
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Pain in a newborn, child, or adolescent is a complex phenomenon that can be acute or chronic, mild or severe, and invoke complex reactions in the patient, family, and clinician. Pain is a feeling that humans find very unpleasant, seek to ameliorate and even stop as soon as possible. Individuals come to their clinicians seeking…
From One Century to the Next: A History of Wrentham State School and the Institutional Model in Massachusetts

Disability Studies (Edited Series), U.S. History
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This book chronicles the development of the institutional model in Massachusetts with the well-intended beginnings, the decline and the subsequent heroic reform. Massachusetts led the country and perhaps the world in the development of facilities intended to house the mentally ill and developmentally disabled during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The state schools constructed…
Virtual Reality: Recent Advances in Virtual Rehabilitation System Design

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Medical Devices, Medicine and Health
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In recent years, humanity has seen a trend towards the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies for rehabilitation and disability support. This is partly driven not only by the decreasing cost and improved accessibility to technology, but also by the growth in expertise of virtual rehabilitation researchers and practitioners. The benefits of virtual reality are…
Rehabilitation: Innovations and Challenges in the Use of Virtual Reality Technologies

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Medical Devices, Medicine and Health
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Virtual rehabilitation has been the focus of considerable research for many years, but the recent upsurge in consumer-ready virtual reality hardware and software has led to an increased interest in its use for a variety of clinical and home settings. In order to balance the upsurge in demand for innovative technological healthcare tools, there is…
Parkinson’s Disease: Awareness among Young Adults

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Central Nervous System, Neuroscience, Medicine and Health
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Parkinson’s disease, first described by the English surgeon James Parkinson (1755-1824) in 1817 as “shaking palsy”, is a neurodegenerative disorder that manifests symptoms such as resting tremor, muscular rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability. These motor disorders have been extensively researched resulting in improved diagnostic accuracy and the development of robust rating scales and treatment strategies…
Child Abuse: Children with Disabilities

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Child Abuse, Family and Relationships, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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In this book, we review abuse and neglect among children with disabilities and highlight the importance of identifying abuse and neglect in this vulnerable population. Child maltreatment has many detrimental consequences, and in the absence of a professional response, further victimization, lifelong complications and possibly early death may occur. Disability and maltreatment are defined and…
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Awareness among Young Adults

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Intellectual Disabilities, Medicine and Health
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People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) display deficits/unusual behavior in one of the three domains: Reciprocal social interaction, communication and restricted/repetitive interests/behaviours. The cause of ASD is still unknown, with etiological theories continuing to change as research progresses. It was once proposed that child-rearing was a major determinant, but more recent studies have suggested that…
Virtual Reality: Recent Advances for Health and Wellbeing

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Medical Devices, Medicine and Health
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Virtual reality and human interaction with it is a complex topic, and certainly not one which will be mastered overnight; but across the world, there is excellent research being carried out for all of these important domains. As humanity extends its understanding of the interplay with these system components, developers will be well-positioned to design…
Human Development: Equipping Minds with Cognitive Development

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Research studies have examined the relationship between working memory, cognitive skills, and academic abilities. However, while some studies and scientific articles have demonstrated that working memory can be increased through direct intervention in either the clinical or classroom setting, other studies have failed to show any further transfer. These conflicting results are a key concern,…
Quality of Life and Intellectual Disability: Knowledge Application to other Social and Educational Challenges

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Intellectual Disabilities, Medicine and Health
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We all long for a life of purpose and fulfillment. Striving for high quality of life for us and those we care for is a powerful motivator. Many busy people dream of being lazy by a pool fanned by a soft summer breeze, but this does not last. A short time of rest and replenishment…
Pain Management Yearbook 2017

Disability Studies (Edited Series), Pain Management
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In this yearbook for 2017 we present you with some of the latest research on pain management. We start out with a section on psychosocial and ethical issue in cancer care. Then we move into issue on palliative care in cancer and then a whole section on biomarkers in oncology. The last section is about…

Disability Studies (Edited Series)

Intellectual Disability: Some Current Issues

Virtual Reality: Rehabilitation in Motor, Cognitive and Sensorial Disorders

Virtual Reality: People with Special Needs

Technology, Rehabilitation and Empowerment of People with Special Needs

Recent Advances on Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Rehabilitation

Pediatric Pain: Current Aspects

From One Century to the Next: A History of Wrentham State School and the Institutional Model in Massachusetts

Virtual Reality: Recent Advances in Virtual Rehabilitation System Design

Rehabilitation: Innovations and Challenges in the Use of Virtual Reality Technologies

Parkinson’s Disease: Awareness among Young Adults

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Awareness among Young Adults

Virtual Reality: Recent Advances for Health and Wellbeing

Quality of Life and Intellectual Disability: Knowledge Application to other Social and Educational Challenges

Pain Management Yearbook 2017

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