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Effectiveness of Alternative Ways of Implementing Care Management Components in Medicare D-SNPs: The Care Wisconsin and Gateway Study

Zurovac, Jelena; Brown, Randy; Schmitz, Bob; Chapman, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

The study findings suggest that only one of the interventions tested (more frequent routine contacts and medication review) appeared to have led to improved outcomes, but the lack of consistency of favorable findings across outcomes for this intervention, and the anomalous finding for the...

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International Efforts to Serve Youth with Disabilities: Lessons for the U.S. Disability Support System

Honeycutt, Todd; Lyons, Jennifer A.; Moreno, Lorenzo - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014

This brief summarizes the findings from two studies that examine programs and policies in 10 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries that could address barriers U.S. youth with disabilities face in the transition to adulthood.

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Youth Transition Demonstration Shows Promise for Improving Employment Outcomes of Youth with Disabilities, But Can They Be Replicated and Sustained?

Wittenburg, David - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

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A Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Supported Work Experiment

Kemper, Peter; Long, David A.; Thornton, Craig - Mathematica Policy Research - 1984

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YTD Evaluation Finds Positive Impacts on Employment in Florida and West Virginia

Fraker, Thomas - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

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Youth for Sale: Using Critical Disability Perspectives to Examine the Embodiment of ‘Youth’

Slater, Jenny - In: Societies 2 (2012) 3, pp. 195-209

use a feminist-disability lens to consider youth in an abstracted form, not as a life-stage, but as the end goal of an …

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The Place of Disgust: Disability, Class and Gender in Spaces of Workfare

Soldatic, Karen; Meekosha, Helen - In: Societies 2 (2012) 3, pp. 139-156

This paper explores the role of disgust in mediating disabled women's experience of workfare in the Australian state. As global social policy has been restructured along neoliberal lines in Western nations, the notion of ‘workfare’ has been widely promulgated. This paper draws on nine case...

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“The Gong Gong Was Beaten” —Adamorobe: A “Deaf Village” in Ghana and Its Marriage Prohibition for Deaf Partners

Kusters, Annelies - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 10, pp. 2765-2784

Adamorobe is a village in Ghana where the historical presence of a hereditary form of deafness resulted in a high number of deaf inhabitants. Over the centuries, a local sign language emerged, which is used between deaf and hearing people in everyday life, rendering Adamorobe into a unique place...

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Understanding recovery: Changes in the relationships of the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) components over time

Davis, A.M.; Perruccio, A.V.; Ibrahim, S.; Hogg-Johnson, S. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 11, pp. 1999-2006

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework describes human functioning through … intervention with predictable improvement in pain and disability, completed standardized outcome measures pre-surgery and five … complexities of the ICF component relationships in evaluating disability over time. Further longitudinal studies including …

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Entangled ethnography: Imagining a future for young adults with learning disabilities

Ginsburg, Faye; Rapp, Rayna - In: Social Science & Medicine 99 (2013) C, pp. 187-193

demedicalizing the experience of disability. …

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