adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mentally handicapped
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
mentally
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Many families keep their mentally handicapped children and adults at home.
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The numbers of people in mentally handicapped hospitals rose sharply from around 5,000 in 1918 to 50,000 by 1940.
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In addition 3,000 mentally handicapped and 200,000 mentally ill people were seen as new out-patients that year.
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Considerable progress has been made in the education of mentally handicapped people since the legislation in 1971.
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In addition there were another 550 schools for physically handicapped pupils which would include some mentally handicapped pupils who are also physically handicapped.
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They entertain the elderly and mentally handicapped and are short of clubs.
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Read in studio Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who's been missing for three days.
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Macintyre works with mentally handicapped people, setting up residential homes and finding them rewarding work.
physically
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The physically handicapped youngster faces severe problems in finding employment.
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Disabled Students Physically handicapped students may be assured that their applications will be considered on the academic grounds applying to all candidates.
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Dozens of teenage volunteers were bussed in on Tuesday evening for a dance with mentally and physically handicapped patients.
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In addition there were another 550 schools for physically handicapped pupils which would include some mentally handicapped pupils who are also physically handicapped.
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That means meeting the needs of the exceptionally gifted as well as those of the physically handicapped and socially deprived.
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The venue is home to about 200 mentally and physically handicapped students.
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It has made physically handicapped people keen to stress that they are not mentally handicapped, not stupid.
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This preparation eased the way for further integration of physically handicapped children into the mixed ability secondary school.
severely
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For example, the Rowntree Trust Family Fund has been helpful to families with severely handicapped children.
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More severely handicapped people often suffer from physical as well as mental disabilities.
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A family with a severely handicapped child will have many problems.
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Mencap's Day Services campaign indicates that the most desperate need is for the severely handicapped and those with behavioural difficulties.
visually
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The incidents related in her story, however, are drawn from actual experiences of visually handicapped pupils.
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Ways in which mobility can be made easier for visually handicapped pupils are discussed in the section on mobility in Chapter 6.
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Specialised equipment and materials required for visually handicapped pupils can pose a storage problem.
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Décor can be used imaginatively and helpfully as an aid to location for visually handicapped pupils.
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There are some practical considerations that must be faced in terms of support for visually handicapped pupils who are being educated in resource situations.
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The specialist teacher may find that some visually handicapped pupils require direct support teaching sessions.
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For some visually handicapped children the amount of glare caused by various forms of lighting adds considerably to their difficulties.
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Magnification, however, is not useful for every visually handicapped child.
■ NOUN
baby
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In less imaginative hands, Liz - an unmarried and uncommunicative mum of a handicapped baby - would surely come a cropper.
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When and if this occurs, decisions about mentally handicapped babies will be made with a full consideration of the issues involved.
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Although I said to my husband when I was pregnant, what if I have a handicapped baby ?
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It is an important protection against behaving in unprofessional ways like procuring an illegal abortion or killing a handicapped baby .
child
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More help should also be available for the parents of younger handicapped children under the new legislation.
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She was a single parent and had a nine-year-old son, Darren, who was in a home for mentally handicapped children .
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Mentally handicapped children should be given the opportunity of mixing with other children from an early age.
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The chances of having a severely mentally handicapped child are one in 200.
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For example, the Rowntree Trust Family Fund has been helpful to families with severely handicapped children .
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She also runs a playgroup for able bodied and handicapped children . £500 was split between the two groups.
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Wherever possible, mentally handicapped children should attend normal schools, and thousands of mildly handicapped children do so.
people
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It is said that mentally handicapped people die young.
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One reason for this is that mentally handicapped people are living longer, and this is balancing out the reduction in admissions.
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It is wrong to assume that mentally handicapped people would, or should, remain at home into adulthood.
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Considerable progress has been made in the education of mentally handicapped people since the legislation in 1971.
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This, in turn, implies that a range of personnel will be deployed to support mentally handicapped people in different ways.
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This would involve four handicapped people and four helpers.
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More severely handicapped people often suffer from physical as well as mental disabilities.
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Macintyre works with mentally handicapped people , setting up residential homes and finding them rewarding work.
person
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Firstly, it depicted the life of a mentally handicapped person as being unrewarding, unstimulating and confined.
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Each helper only works with one handicapped person .
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They will probably not have spent any amount of time with a mentally handicapped person or really know how they behave.
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For the first time, he said, the winner was a mentally handicapped person .
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Social workers are needed to help the families of mentally handicapped persons as well as the mentally ill or handicapped themselves.
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The mentally handicapped person should, wherever possible, be encouraged to live outside his or her home with a view to eventual independence.
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The maximum number of persons in each group must be fourteen i.e. six handicapped persons and eight helpers.
pupil
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The incidents related in her story, however, are drawn from actual experiences of visually handicapped pupils .
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Ways in which mobility can be made easier for visually handicapped pupils are discussed in the section on mobility in Chapter 6.
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Specialised equipment and materials required for visually handicapped pupils can pose a storage problem.
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The skilful use of a piece of interesting technology by a visually handicapped pupil can become a source of pride rather than embarrassment.
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Décor can be used imaginatively and helpfully as an aid to location for visually handicapped pupils .
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There are some practical considerations that must be faced in terms of support for visually handicapped pupils who are being educated in resource situations.
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In addition there were another 550 schools for physically handicapped pupils which would include some mentally handicapped pupils who are also physically handicapped.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a school for mentally handicapped children
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She works with handicapped teenagers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A family with a severely handicapped child will have many problems.
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Access to further and higher education has been unduly restricted for handicapped children and this should be improved.
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Although the kangaroo has a fast turn of speed on the plan, he is handicapped when climbing trees.
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In less imaginative hands, Liz - an unmarried and uncommunicative mum of a handicapped baby - would surely come a cropper.
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Like other mentally handicapped children, Down's children can achieve considerable educational improvement through a consistent programme of education and care.
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Mentally handicapped man in motiveless gang attack.
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The need for the adequate provision of permanent residential homes increases substantially as the mentally handicapped child grows up.
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The Ormerod School educates handicapped children from Oxfordshire.