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Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities

The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides disability benefits through the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. The SSDI program ...
Medical Xpress

New digital tool supports mental health assessment of people with intellectual disability

UNSW Sydney's Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) has launched a tool to support the mental health assessment of people with intellectual disability and communication ...
The Conversation

NDIS independent assessments are off the table for now. That’s a good thing — the evidence wasn’t there

Federal, state and territory disability ministers met on Friday to debate a proposal to introduce independent assessments into the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). In the face of sustained ...
Nature

Disability Assessment in Stroke Outcomes articles from across Nature Portfolio

The incidence of readmission among ischaemic stroke (IS) survivors is high. Thirty-day (30d) readmission directly increases medical costs and suffering among survivors and indirectly reflects the lack ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides disability benefits through the ...