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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 ...
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Assessment of Work-Related Functional Abilities Is Important In Disability Determination

WASHINGTON – Assessments of a person’s ability to function at work provide important information for disability determinations, and many validated tests are available to assess work-related physical ...
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Functional Disability Among Older Versus Younger Adults With Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Talking With Children About Prognosis: The Decisions and Experiences of Mothers With Metastatic Cancer In a prospective cohort of participants newly diagnosed with advanced NSCLC and beginning ...
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Should ADHD be in the NDIS? Yes, but eligibility for disability supports should depend on the person not their diagnosis

Andrew Whitehouse receives funding from the NHMRC, ARC, the Autism CRC, the Angela Wright Bennett Foundation and the McCusker Foundation. Eligibility for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS ...