I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mentally handicapped
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■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Petite Rosanna lost a shoe when fancied for a big handicap at Newbury last time.
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Indeed it could be your biggest handicap .
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The young golfer with the biggest handicap of all.
major
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At the Link Centre a four-day residential study was arranged for deafened people who were finding tinnitus a major handicap .
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I thought that was another major handicap .
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Accordingly, perception of a gap between social and private returns was not a major handicap to investment.
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Blindness is also a major handicap to the recognition of a potential mate, as is deviant colouration.
mental
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This process of educational integration should be sought for all Down's children save those with severe mental handicap .
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Where a severe mental or other handicap is involved, much extra planning and caution is needed, several lawyers said.
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It is on this basis that efforts to remove people from mental handicap hospitals should and will continue.
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The media could also do much more to help people to understand about mental handicap .
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The controversies surrounding severe mental handicap which began in the early 1980s sparked off a national debate which continues today.
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Welfare and social services Recent research has demonstrated that people with severe mental handicaps can undertake productive work, with adequate support.
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Every county has had to seek additional funding to support placement costs for children who do not have a mental handicap .
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In some cases of mental handicap there are recognizable clinical abnormalities as well as low intelligence.
natural
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It concluded that the support given varied inversely with the degree of natural handicap !
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The draft Regulation re-emphasises that Member States fix their HLCAs on bands according to the severity of permanent natural handicaps on agriculture.
physical
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However, the presence of the physical handicap will make it more difficult for the person to eventually lead an independent life.
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There may be physical and other handicaps such as impaired sight or poor memory.
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Such groups include the elderly as well as those with mental illness or physical and/or mental handicaps .
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Others may be associated, as we have seen, with mental or physical handicap .
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And like any type of physical handicap , it is incurable.
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Domiciliary services can help the handicapped and their families, especially when the mental disability is accompanied by physical handicap.
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For instance, the child may have been stigmatised by a physical handicap and rejected by peers for a number of years.
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Most Down's people have related physical handicaps in addition to their mental disability.
serious
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But the North's recent comb-out of traditional industries leaves it with an imbalanced legacy and serious economic handicap .
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A child may, for instance, be born with serious handicaps or developmental problems requiring extended periods of care.
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Living outside of Oxford would also be a serious handicap .
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More than eight peo-ple, and decisions got slow and squirrely; less than eight, accidents and ignorance became serious handicaps .
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He was able to play down his Vichy activities, and his questionable wartime record never proved a serious handicap in politics.
severe
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This process of educational integration should be sought for all Down's children save those with severe mental handicap .
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Like Truman two decades earlier, Humphrey did his best to overcome the severe handicap of a badly split party.
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Of these, around 3,000, or 0.5% are born with some form of severe mental handicap .
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His deafness was a severe handicap in an assembly where quickness of hearing and readiness of speech were essential.
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The controversies surrounding severe mental handicap which began in the early 1980s sparked off a national debate which continues today.
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Even those few with more severe visual handicaps will operate as sighted people.
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Welfare and social services Recent research has demonstrated that people with severe mental handicaps can undertake productive work, with adequate support.
visual
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Hemianopia Damage to one side of the brain can cause visual handicap .
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Taped sources can be effective, especially for pupils with reading difficulties or visual handicap .
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For example, teachers may pose the following questions: Why don't all children with visual handicap wear glasses?
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Even those few with more severe visual handicaps will operate as sighted people.
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These different conditions can arise from over-protection or lack of understanding of visual handicap .
■ VERB
cause
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Hemianopia Damage to one side of the brain can cause visual handicap .
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The other main chromosomal abnormalities are: Cat-cry Syndrome, which causes severe mental handicap , but is comparatively rare.
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Accidents, either at birth or at any later stage in life, can cause mental handicap .
overcome
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Private firms must be formidably efficient to overcome these handicaps and offer facilities at the same or lower prices.
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Read in studio Children with Cerebral Palsy could soon lose the training centre that helps them to overcome their handicap .
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Whether the teams could overcome this handicap while also exerting influence at higher levels seemed highly doubtful.
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The Duchess is patron of the charity dedicated to helping children and adults with mental disabilities to overcome their handicaps .
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He settled in London and astounded the country by the extent to which he was able to overcome his disastrous physical handicaps .
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But his results in the past two years suggest he has at least partly overcome that psychological handicap .
play
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Today he plays off a nine handicap , a great help when he is carrying the bag.
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Mrs Harris, who plays off a handicap of 12, joined the club in 1964 and plays for the club team.
suffer
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We suffer a great handicap in dealing with a Government who are obsessed with secrecy.
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Worse still, one third of premature babies due or suffer some form of handicap throughout life.
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Non-Hindus have suffered handicaps , but the state has tried actively to remedy this.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the handicapped
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Current law requires businesses to make their buildings accessible to the handicapped .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Babies of alcoholic mothers can be born with a severe degree of handicap .
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Dick is trying to get his handicap down to a 12.
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His lack of experience on Wall Street may prove to be a handicap .
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His lack of height has not been a handicap to him. He is as good an athlete as anyone else in the school.
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Miss Geller's handicap is barely noticeable after three years of physical therapy.
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Not being able to drive is a real handicap if you live in the country.
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the California Jockey Club Handicap
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The team had a good season despite the handicap of having 5 new players.
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We help people with mental or physical handicaps to find work.
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But there are still many types of handicap - such as autism - about which little is known.
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Fears that radiotherapy would cause genetic mutations leading to handicaps in offspring appear to be groundless, according to studies among 3,000 survivors.
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He was a scrawny, chicken-necked sack of bones, but in spite of his handicap he moved faster than the others.
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How can a system of females choosing males that are good at surviving encumber those males with handicaps to survival?
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More than eight peo-ple, and decisions got slow and squirrely; less than eight, accidents and ignorance became serious handicaps.
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There may be physical and other handicaps such as impaired sight or poor memory.
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Virginity at her age was a positive handicap , he had insisted.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
mentally
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It happened during a performance by a newly setup amateur dramatic group, all of whose members were mentally handicapped .
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Ashington police bought a new rod and reel for Mr Gibson, who is mentally handicapped .
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Days later tests revealed Alex was severely mentally handicapped .
physically
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This is despite Wesley being severely physically handicapped , suspected of some deafness and suffering from dyslexia.
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During one such period Carol had worked at a center for retraining physically handicapped adults.
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Mentally and physically handicapped do light work according to their capability, but get the same wages as everybody else.
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It is even possible for them to find out about recreational equipment for physically handicapped learners, for example.
severely
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Many people are searching for faith again, but they are severely handicapped .
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Finally some friends of theirs who had a severely handicapped child told Mike this was illegal: that they had some rights.
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Economic development since independence was severely handicapped by sabotage and political strife.
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A second level of priority was assigned to provisions for those severely handicapped children whose educations were judged to be inadequate.
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At issue is his controversial view that parents have the right to euthanize severely handicapped new-born children.
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About 40 of the most severely handicapped learn basic social skills.
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Of these 7. 5 million youngsters, nearly half are presumed to be severely handicapped by their mental disorder.
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child
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At issue is his controversial view that parents have the right to euthanize severely handicapped new-born children .
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But he found time as well to hustle on behalf of handicapped children .
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Failure may motivate the bright and able child yet discourage and handicap the child who is already doing poorly.
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Finally some friends of theirs who had a severely handicapped child told Mike this was illegal: that they had some rights.
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An analysis of the anguished reactions of parents assuming new roles of parenting a handicapped child illustrates some typical responses.
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A second level of priority was assigned to provisions for those severely handicapped children whose educations were judged to be inadequate.
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In this unique family, with an army of handicapped children , it mattered very little.
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For six years, Lowman worked with the Los Angeles school board to get more teaching programs and transportation for handicapped children .
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He used a computer to handicap horse races.
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They went through the story again, handicapped by not having it in front of them.
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Women were also handicapped by the constant cycle of pregnancy and childbirth to which they had to resign themselves.