A cognitive disorder characterized by an impaired ability to comprehend written and printed words or phrases despite intact vision. This condition may be developmental or acquired. Developmental dyslexia is marked by reading achievement that falls substantially below that expected given the individual's chronological age, measured intelligence, and age-appropriate education. The disturbance in reading significantly interferes with academic achievement or with activities of daily living that require reading skills. (From DSM-IV)
Disability Discrimination Act Australia : Disability Discrimination Act employment manual : developing best practice / Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Disability evaluation -- Australia -- Congresses. : Measurement of disability : workshop proceedings : Canberra, Australia, 21-22 February 1994 : papers from a workshop organised jointly by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the NH & MRC Social Psychiatry Research Unit
Disability evaluation -- New York (State) -- Statistics : Head injuries in workmen's compensation : medical and administrative data / by Leo M. Davidoff, M.D. (chairman, Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine), and Benno Schlesinger, M.D. (Associate Attending Neurosurgeon, Mount Sinai Hospital)
Determination of the degree of a physical, mental, or emotional handicap. The diagnosis is applied to legal qualification for benefits and income under disability insurance and to eligibility for Social Security and workmen's compensation benefits
Insurance designed to compensate persons who lose wages because of illness or injury; insurance providing periodic payments that partially replace lost wages, salary, or other income when the insured is unable to work because of illness, injury, or disease. Individual and group disability insurance are two types of such coverage. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988, p207)
Disability insurance -- Denmark : In search of effective disability policy : comparing the developments and outcomes of Dutch and Danish disability policies / Jan Hogelund
Disability insurance -- Europe -- History : European disability pension policies : 11 country trends, 1970-2002 / Christopher Prinz (ed.), with an introduction by Bernd Marin
Disability insurance -- Government policy -- United States : Health-care utilization as a proxy in disability determination / Committee on Health Care Utilization and Adults with Disabilities, Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division ; a consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine