Impairment Sentence Examples

Not a hundredth part of the cerebellum has remained, and yet there has existed ability to stand, to walk, to handle and lift objects in a fairly normal way, without any trace of impairment of cutaneous or muscular sensitivity.

The risk is highest in children with severe cognitive impairment and motor deficits.

Severe hypoglycaemia may lead to unconsciousness and/or convulsions and may result in temporary or permanent impairment of brain function or even death.

The principal cause of visual impairment was identified for eyes with presenting visual acuity 6/18.

It's a lifelong neurological impairment that affects the ability to speak, play or socially interact; I felt my knees grow weak.

A far larger number acquire visual impairment in later life.

Teenagers with special needs, such as hearing impairment, visual impairment, ADHD, or autism are often welcome at "regular" summer camps.

Social exclusion of people with marked communication impairment following stroke aphasia is a communication impairment that commonly follows stroke.

Acupuncture inhibits the decrease in brain catecholamine contents and the impairment of passive avoidance task in ovariectomized mice.

There is a marginal impairment but any difficulties can be adequately compensated for through his right eye.

The commonest scenario is the child who has difficulty moving his legs due to spastic diplegia who has lower visual field impairment.

I saw ' Fight Club ' at the local fleapit with a girl patient with hearing impairment.

The lower goodwill amortization charge in 2005 reflects the goodwill impairment charge taken in 2004.

Rarely hepatic dysfunction (sometimes known as " halothane hepatitis ") is diagnosed when other causes of hepatic impairment have been excluded.

A person cannot be deemed incompetent to consent to any transaction purely on the basis that they have an intellectual impairment.

Hearing impairment British Acoustic neuroma Association Help for sufferers of acoustic neuroma brain tumors.

Antioxidants inhibit the oxidation of lipids in cell membranes, leading to impairment of cell function.

Present and future possibilities for defining a phenotype for specific language impairment.

It has been estimated that over 70% of the visual impairment present in people aged 65 and over is potentially remediable.

Urography Care should be exercised in patients with moderate to severe impairment of renal function (as reflected by a raised blood urea ).

Special educational needs provision, especially visual impairment provision is expensive.

Consideration will also be given to facilities for pupils with sensory impairment.

Recurrent trichiasis was not significantly associated with visual impairment or blindness at follow-up.

Sleep deprivation can cause cognitive dysfunction and memory impairment.

Many companies make puzzles, games and hobby items for elderly individuals that suffer from low vision, hearing impairment or other types of physical limitations.

The effects of lack of sleep include a surly demeanor, diminished cognitive function and impairment of reflexes.

Insomnia is a serious problem that often leads to irritability, memory impairment, poor work performance, and a reduction in quality of life.

World Sight Day is the second Thursday of October and is meant to bring awareness to blindness, visual impairment, and rehabilitation around the world.

Diagnosis of NF-2 also relies on manipulation of the skin to indicate the presence of nodules and evaluation of hearing and vision to determine any impairment.

Symptoms include muscle weakness, stroke-like events, eye muscle paralysis, and cognitive impairment.

About 80 percent of people who reported feeling depressed stated that they had at least some degree of functional impairment due to the condition.

Others criticize the criteria because they limit the diagnosis to those who experience a significant impairment, which may exclude individuals who have the syndrome but exhibit milder symptoms.

Children who have a neurological disorder or illness such as encephalitis or meningitis may suddenly show signs of cognitive impairment and adaptive difficulties.

By putting pressure on the brain hydrocephalus can cause learning impairment.

In the pancreas, clogged passageways prevent secretion of digestive enzymes into the intestine, causing serious impairment of digestion-especially of fat-which may lead to malnutrition.

Some children seem to be more at risk for having GERD than others, particularly children who have hiatal hernia, cystic fibrosis, neurological impairment or delay, or an immature esophagus and LES.

Women who contract the disease while pregnant may give birth to a baby with hearing impairment.

This discomfort must cause a significant amount of distress or impairment in the functioning of the individual.

Pyromania is diagnosed when fire-setting is not better explained by conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder, mental impairment, delusions or hallucinations, or intoxication.

Specific language impairment describes a condition of markedly delayed language development in the absence of any apparent handicapping conditions such as deafness, autism, or mental retardation.

Specific language impairment (SLI) is also sometimes called childhood dysphasia, or developmental language disorder.

Very little is known about the cause or origin of specific language impairment, although evidence is growing that the underlying condition may be a form of brain abnormality.

Parents should talk to their pediatrician immediately if their child appears to have hearing impairment.

The severity of motor impairment is also a factor.

Many infants and children with CP have growth impairment.

In severe cases, people exhibit obvious impairment of cognitive, motor, and language skills.

The complications of bacterial meningitis can be severe and include neurological problems such as hearing loss, visual impairment, seizures, and learning disabilities.

The nerve damage associated with ADP could cause breathing impairment or lead to weakness or paralysis of the arms and legs.

If untreated or if treatment fails and is not corrected, conjunctivitis may cause visual impairment by spreading to other parts of the eye, such as the cornea.

Specific language impairment (SLI) describes a condition of markedly delayed language development in the absence of any apparent handicapping conditions.

Very little is known about the cause or origin of specific language impairment, although evidence in the early 2000s is growing that the underlying condition may be a form of brain abnormality.

There are many ways to address gross motor skills impairment, such as physical therapy.

A careful neurological evaluation can help to determine the cause of impairment and help a clinician begin to localize the problem.

There are many ways to address fine motor skills impairment, such as physical therapy.

In general, developmental delay, mental retardation, and vision and hearing impairment are common in those who have these disorders.

Even a minor hearing impairment can significantly affect language development.

Children with Down syndrome also are at higher risk for hearing impairment and ear infections that cause hearing loss.

Since language delay is the most common early symptom of global intellectual impairment, the test provides a comprehensive developmental assessment.

Males who inherit the full mutation are expected to have mental impairment.

Females who inherit the full mutation have an approximately 30-50 percent risk of mental impairment, ranging from mild learning disability to mental retardation and behavioral problems.

Most boys with fragile X syndrome have mental impairment.

The severity of mental impairment ranges from learning disabilities to severe mental retardation.

If a child exhibits delayed development and mental impairment and has other symptoms typical of fragile X syndrome, the doctor should be consulted to determine the cause of the problems.

Vision impairment is a loss of vision that makes it hard or impossible to perform daily tasks without specialized adaptations.

Vision impairment may be caused by a loss of visual acuity, in which the eye does not see objects as clearly as usual.

Vision impairment changes how a child understands and functions in the world.

Impairment of the immune system has been unquestionably determined to be the reason why Herpes Viruses are reactivated from a dormant state and re-infect children causing Bell's palsy.

Children are diagnosed with PDDNOS if their symptoms do not fit any of the other four types and/or they do not have the degree of impairment of the other four types.

Cognitive impairment is the general loss or lack of development of cognitive abilities, particularly autism and learning disabilities.

Hearing impairment is the temporary or permanent loss of some or all hearing in one or both ears.

Conductive hearing impairment is most often caused by otitis media, an infection of the middle ear.

Chronic secretory otitis media, also called otitis media with effusion or suppurative otitis media, is the most common cause of temporary hearing impairment in children under eight.

About 12,000 American infants annually are born with some degree of hearing impairment.

Three out of every 1,000 children are born with significant hearing impairment.

In the United States 14.9 percent of children aged six to 19 have measurable hearing impairment in one or both ears.

Noise-induced hearing impairment is increasing in the United States.

If the blockage persists it causes chronic secretory otitis media, the most common cause of conductive hearing impairment in children.

A painful earache and temporary hearing impairment in one ear are common symptoms of acute otitis media.

Another cause of conductive hearing impairment is an excessive build-up of earwax that prevents sound waves from reaching the eardrum.

High-frequency hearing impairment in teenagers most often results from exposure to loud noise such as amplified music.

A physician should be consulted immediately if a parent suspects that a child has a hearing impairment.

Parents are usually the first to suspect a hearing impairment in their child.

If a problem is detected, additional tests are used to determine the type and severity of the impairment.

Test administrators who suspect a hearing impairment may cover their mouths to prevent the child from lip reading, also called speech reading.

Sensorineural hearing impairment and congenital deafness are incurable.

However, recurrent or chronic otitis media can result in ongoing moderate hearing impairment, often at a stage in which hearing is essential for language development.

However, even a minor hearing impairment can significantly affect a baby's ability to understand and communicate and to acquire speech and language.

Those at risk for hearing impairment from other loud noises should be encouraged to wear earplugs.

Conductive hearing impairment-Hearing impairment associated with the outer or middle ear, often caused by infection.

Otoacoustic emission (OAE)-Sounds or echoes created by vibrations of hair cells in the cochlea in response to sound; used to screen for hearing impairment in newborns.

Infants with severe cases may also suffer neurological impairment.

A neuropsychologist can perform an in-depth neuropsychologic assessment that can determine presence or absence and extent of impairment.

An audiologist may test an infant or young child for signs of hearing impairment or loss, usually by transmitting sounds through earphones.

In preschool children, the most prevalent disability was speech or language impairment.

Common disabilities include specific learning disabilities (e.g., dyslexia), speech or language impairment, mental retardation, and emotional disturbance.

Unless it is treated successfully in early childhood, amblyopia usually persists into adulthood and is the most frequent cause of monocular (one eye) visual impairment among children.

Life expectancy is dependent on the degree of respiratory impairment present.

Other side effects include dizziness, fainting, headache, tremors, muscle twitching, confusion, memory impairment, anxiety, agitation, insomnia, weakness, drowsiness, chills, blurred vision, and heart palpitations.

Angelman's syndrome is a relatively rare genetic disorder that causes a variety of neurological problems, including developmental delay, seizures, speech impairment, and problems with movement and balance.

Children with autism have significant communication impairment.

Different patterns of language impairment in developmental language disorders have distinct profiles of linguistic strengths and weaknesses.

When a motor delay exists with delays in other developmental areas, the child should be examined for visual impairment or mental handicap.

Disability-An inability to do something others can do; sometimes referred to as handicap or impairment.

The impairment of cognitive ability that distorts reality.

A tympanometry test may reveal an impairment of eardrum mobility.

The construction skills used in the test have been shown to indicate visual motor impairment, such as problems with fine motors skills of the hand and hand-eye coordination.

Patients with hearing impairment benefit from hearing aids.

Hypomania is not as severe as mania and does not cause the level of impairment in work and social activities that mania can.

Most people with any impairment in color vision learn colors, as do other young children.

The home must be structurally sound and free from any impairment of use in a customary fashion.

Some are easily corrected with surgery or therapy, while others result in a last impairment for the child.

Individuals with some impairment or problems in their kidney or liver are usually watched for symptoms of vitamin D deficiency.

Asperger's Syndrome differs from classic autism in that it does not involve any significant language delay or impairment.

The degree to which ASD interferes with these areas of development varies, ranging from mild impairment to severe disability.

Individuals diagnosed with PDD-NOS may display behavior patterns, interaction difficulties, and unusual sensitivities similar to those of autistic disorder, but often with a lesser degree of impairment.

Experts agree that early detection and intervention in the developmental difficulties of autism can significantly reduce the severity of impairment in autistic individuals.

Although each person experiences autism differently, the atypical autism symptoms generally focus on the three areas of impairment - social skills, language development and imaginative expression.

No significant impairment or delays in cognitive development are present and no substantial language delays are present.

Everyone experiences Aspergers differently and no two people have the same symptoms or level of impairment.

However, ABA can work for autistic people of all ages and levels of impairment.

If your condition is not on the list, it must match the severity of another impairment that is listed.

This is important for women who suffer a lack of dexterity, due to age or other impairment.

If alcohol will be available, monitor guests' consumption to avoid impairment.

Since his retirement from office Gladstone's physical vigour, up to that time unequalled, had shown signs of impairment.

The lack of impairment in neurologically asymptomatic patients suggests that the cognitive deficits are caused by direct cerebral involvement rather than hepatic encephalopathy.

The SmPC describes in some detail the hearing impairment in patients receiving cisplatin and notes that it is worse in children.

The first conclusion drawn from the study is the causal connection between institutional rearing and cognitive impairment.

The lower goodwill amortization charge in 2005 reflects the goodwill amortization charge in 2005 reflects the goodwill impairment charge taken in 2004.

There was no clear pattern of greater impairment for kanji with right hemisphere lesions and greater impairment for kana with left hemisphere lesions.

Initially, a mutants will be screened for a combination of photosystem I impairment and a cellular iron homeostasis defect.

Very low birthweight infants with clinical seizures have a higher incidence of impairment than preterm infants without seizures 34.

The principal adjustments are made in respect of rationalization costs, the impairment of goodwill and the amortization of acquired intangibles.

Impairment was also associated with substantial costs, e.g. attorney malpractice and the Washington State Bar Association discipline process.

The degree of visual impairment induced by lens opacity differs markedly depending on the location of the opacity.

Data are insufficient to draw conclusions regarding pharmacokinetics in moderate hepatic impairment.

Care should be exercised in treating infants, elderly patients and those with hepatic impairment (see 4.2 posology for dosage recommendations ).

Impairment of vision The majority of children with unilateral retinoblastoma have the affected eye removed.

Children with visual impairment often read at a much slower pace than fully sighted peers.

Learners with some forms of visual impairment such as tunnel vision will see better if print is kept small.

Many writers adhere to the doctrine that there is no impairment of sovereignty of the weaker state by the establishment of a protectorate.

Neither of these agents should be used in patients with renal impairment.

Projects supported range from pure research and clinical trials, to rehabilitation for those with sight impairment.

Urography Care should be exercised in patients with moderate to severe impairment of renal function (as reflected by a raised blood urea).

These symptoms must be present for at least one month and interfere in your life enough to cause you some functional impairment and distress.

Many physical diseases that impact the flow of blood through the circulatory system can lead to cognitive impairment symptoms such as those associated with dementia.

The staff is specifically trained to care for residents with memory impairment and various forms of dementia.

Smoking and drinking alcohol both contribute to muscle relaxation and breathing impairment.

The condition involves impairment in the central nervous system that results in involuntary movements, often beginning with tremors and gradually evolving into movements that are more pronounced.

Very high rates of speech impairment, learning disabilities, and attention deficit disorder occur in children with NF-1.

The infection is carried to the infant through the mother's placenta and can cause impairment of the infant's eyes (opthalmic impairment) and central nervous system (neurological dysfunction).

T. gondii infection of a fetus or newborn can also cause severe neurological impairment, blindness, mental retardation, and death.

Of those babies born with congenital CMV infection, about 10 percent to 20 percent ultimately suffer form hearing impairment, eye damage, or problems with intellectual or motor function.

This can lead to inflammation, cognitive impairment, neurological problems and more.

The complete and utter lack of response can imitate deafness, and tests should be performed to rule out hearing impairment.

Living with a disease, impairment, or other special need.

Green tea is naturally full of antioxidants, and some of the most promising research suggests that it can help control blood sugar, boost immune function, maintain bone density and heart health, burn fat, and lower cognitive impairment.

Spastic refers to diplegic impairment of either legs or arms, quadriplegic involving all four extremities, hemiplegic or one-sided involvement of arms and legs, or double hemiplegic impairment of both sides, arms and legs.

The VABS assessment provides the information required for the diagnosis or evaluation of a wide range of disabilities, including mental retardation, developmental delays, functional skills impairment, and speech/language impairment.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated one in 10 children and adolescents in the United States suffers from mental illness severe enough to cause significant impairment in their day-today living.

Alcoholism, or alcohol dependence, is described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) as "A maladaptive pattern of alcohol use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress."

Some experts argue that as many as 10 percent of two-year-olds may have a specific language impairment, but by age three or four, that percentage drops considerably, presumably because some difficulties resolve themselves.

Learning disabilities-An impairment of the cognitive processes of understanding and using spoken and written language that results in difficulties with one or more academic skill sets (e.g., reading, writing, mathematics).

Pulmonary function tests help a doctor to diagnose respiratory diseases and disorders such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and emphysema, and mechanical injury by measuring the degree of lung impairment.

For example, more than 70 known inherited disorders account for about one-half of all severe sensorineural hearing impairments; however, 90 percent of children with congenital hearing impairment are born to parents with normal hearing.