How to use disability in a sentence

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• The child's learning disability was only one facet of the problems contributing to his delinquency.From the entry facet
• Workman's comp and disability comp help people who are injured at work.From the entry comp
• The government has taken nothing more than tokenistic actions on behalf of people with disabilities.From the entry tokenistic
• Disability rights advocates are encouraging people to rethink the words "crazy" and "insane" as they stigmatize mental health.From the entry rethink
• I noticed you being a bully towards people with disabilities.From the entry bully
• The animal shelter has a flightless sparrow named Shiny, who seems to make up for his disability by being an avid runner.From the entry flightless
• This is because there is an inherently negative association towards disability or neurodivergency.2024, Katie Ellis, Mike Kent, and Kim Cousins, editors, The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Disability Studies (Routledge…. From the entry neurodivergency
• Print disabilities include any condition which negatively affects someone's ability to read traditional print materials.2021 March 5, Richard Raycraft, “Advocates urge Liberals to cancel 'devastating' cut to services for Canadians with print reading…. From the entry print disability
• Ableism is when you think I don't have a disability because you can't see it.2019, Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry ableism
• Apple wants to introduce new emojis to better represent people with disabilities.2018 March 24, “Apple Wants to Introduce New Emojis for Disabled People”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2018. From the entry emoji
• But portraying a person with a disability comes with its own responsibility.2017 November 30, Gary Goldstein, “To portray a paralyzed polio patient in ‘Breathe,’ Andrew Garfield relied on his voice and…. From the entry bang on the money
• Treat people with disabilities just like everyone else, is the argument.2016 September 15, Tom Shakespeare, “Disabled People Don’t Want to Be Your Inspiration, but If They Are It’s No Surprise”, in The…. From the entry Paralympian
• Another potential siting of disability masquerade connecting the superhero and 'supercrip' is M.2016, Todd R. Ramlow, “Queering, Cripping”, in Michael O'Rourke, Noreen Giffney, editors, The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory…. From the entry supercrip
• An unfavorable LOD determination disqualifies a service member from receiving disability compensation.2015, Janelle B. Moore, Cheryl Lawhorne-Scott, Don Philpott, The Wounded Warrior Handbook, →ISBN. From the entry lod
• Embedded graphics also pose significant problems for people with print disabilities.2014 November 14, Paul Harpur, Nicolas Suz, “The paradigm shift in realising the right to read: how ebook libraries are enabling in the…. From the entry print disability
• I will readily admit that I was mostly a tall, gangly drink of water, but “physical disability”?2011, Robert Waldrop, I Get the Drizzlies When It Rains: Inside Look at Newspaper People, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry gangly drink of water
• The historical development of ablenationalism results in the modern formation of disability as a discrete, sociological minority.2010, Sharon L. Snyder, David T. Mitchell, “Introduction: Ablenationalism and the Geo-politics of Disability”, in Journal of Literary and…. From the entry ablenationalism
• But for some companies, disability coverage has been a money loser.2009, Jane Bryant Quinn, Making the Most of Your Money Now. From the entry loser
• People with both sitting and walking disability often need to use a wheelbench.2009 March, Meng-Hui Hsu, Hsueh-Yu Chen, Jen-Yu Liu, Chien-Liang Chen, “Dual-purpose wheelchair mechanism designs”, in Proceedings of the…. From the entry wheelbench
• Savants have a developmental disability, including autistic disorders, combined with brilliant talents or abilities.2008, Ana Maria Rodriguez, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry savant syndrome
• Roosevelt was the quintessential American "supercrip," to use a term coined by disability activists.2001, Ellen L. Barton, “Textual Practices of Erasure: Representations of Disability and the Founding of the United Way”, in Cynthia…. From the entry supercrip
• Certainly, all those who qualified for a disability benefit worked less.2001, Frank S. Bloch, Rienk Prins, Who Returns to Work & Why?, page 166. From the entry non-work
• Physical prejudice exists among people surrounding ageism, youthism, sizeism and disabilities.1999, Leigh Stephens Aldrich, Covering the community: a diversity handbook for media, page 8. From the entry youthism
• We call this the disability white pill question and diagram it as shown in Figure 6.1984, Management Science - Volume 30, page 414. From the entry white pill
• Caretakers infantalize the disabled in order to cope with their own fears about disability.1983 December 10, Nancy A. F. Langer, quoting John Ostwalt, “Different Abilities, Same Queer Pleasures”, in Gay Community News, volume 11…. From the entry infantalize
• The existence of disabilities is evidence against and not in favour of the non-existence of abilities.1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 97 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press). From the entry ophthalmological
• A disability analytic reveals how ableism and ablenationalism are central to the design of care infrastructures and policy.2023, Laura Mauldin, “Disability, Ableism, and Care during COIVD-19 in the United States”, in Mignon Duffy, Amy Armenia, Kim Price-Glynn…. From the entry ablenationalism
• Jim's presumptive mansplaining (and ablesplaining) is insulting to Laura from both a disability studies and a feminist standpoint.2018, Patricia A. Dunn, Angela Broderick, “What Does The Glass Menagerie and Its Discussion Questions Teach About Disability? And How to…. From the entry ablesplaining
• This working distance can keep the children relaxed and is convenient for those with disabilities such as polimyelities and autism.2016 February 17, “Performance of Spot Photoscreener in Detecting Amblyopia Risk Factors in Chinese Pre-school and School Age Children…. From the entry polimyelities
• Ablenormativity requires performing abledness and neurotypicality—apparent disability cannot be tolerated.2016, Lydia Brown, “'You don't feel like a freak anymore': Representing Disability, Madness and Trauma in Litchfield Penitentiary”, in…. From the entry ablenormativity
• Rather, my subjects are independent people who are older than 18—not teenagers or children—who are without intellectual disabilities—such as Alzheimer's disease.2015, Ruiping Fan, Family-Oriented Informed Consent: East Asian and American Perspectives, →ISBN. From the entry intellectual disability
• In Carla’s opinion, kitchenware and cleaningware are products that facilitate the work of both people with and without disability.2014, Susanne Jacobson, Personalised Assistive Products: Managing Stigma and Expressing the Self, Aalto University, →ISBN, page 207. From the entry cleaningware
• It is not so much a disability as a diffability.2009, Rudy Simone, 22 Things a Woman Must Know If She Loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry diffability
• Wheelchairs are used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness (physiological or physical), injury, or disability.2009 March, Meng-Hui Hsu, Hsueh-Yu Chen, Jen-Yu Liu, Chien-Liang Chen, “Dual-purpose wheelchair mechanism designs”, in Proceedings of the…. From the entry wheelbench
• Physical and behavioral features vary but may include increased height and risk of cognitive disabilities, particularly involving speech and language.2009, A Balasubramanian; J Koontz, C A Reynolds, “Genetics and Inheritance”, in Janette B. Benson, Marshall M. Haith, editors, Language…. From the entry triple X
• He is also a music therapist in Hartsdale, N.Y., where he specializes in teaching music to children with neuromotor disabilities.2007 August 26, “Jae Gruenke, Eric Barnhill”, in New York Times. From the entry neuromotor

Meaning of disability

1. noun A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
2. noun The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
3. noun A limitation in function (the things that a person can do or achieve) that is driven by any combination of their impairments (the medical facts about them) and the imperfect state of society's inaccessibility that sometimes fails to accommodate their needs.

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Questions about disability in a sentence

How do you use disability in a sentence?

Disability is used as a noun. For example: “I had to go on disability after the accident.”

What is a short sentence with disability?

“people with disabilities”

What does disability mean?

Disability means a condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.