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HANDICAPPED PERSON [28 records]

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Record 1 2024-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Sociology
DEF

A person without a physical, mental, intellectual, cognitive, sensory, learning or communication impairment, or a functional limitation, whether apparent or not, and permanent, temporary or episodic in nature, that hinders their full and equal participation in society when they face a barrier.

OBS

non-handicapped person : The adjective "non-handicapped" in the term "non-handicapped person" is considered to be outdated and can be considered offensive.

OBS

person without a disability: The plural form of "disability" is used in expressions such as "persons without disabilities" or "people without disabilities."

Key term(s)
  • nondisabled person
  • non disabled person
  • nonhandicapped person
  • non handicapped person

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences humaines
  • Sociologie
DEF

Personne n'ayant pas de déficience physique, mentale, intellectuelle, cognitive ou sensorielle, de trouble d'apprentissage ou de la communication, ou de limitation fonctionnelle, de nature permanente, temporaire ou épisodique, manifeste ou non, qui nuit à sa participation pleine et égale dans la société lorsqu'elle est confrontée à un obstacle.

OBS

Les termes «non-handicapé» et «non-handicapée» peuvent être jugés offensants.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
DEF

A person with a physical, mental, intellectual, cognitive, sensory, learning or communication impairment, or a functional limitation, whether apparent or not, and permanent, temporary or episodic in nature, that hinders their full and equal participation in society when they face a barrier.

OBS

handicapped person : The use of the adjective "handicapped" in the term "handicapped person" is considered to be outdated and can be considered offensive.

OBS

differently-abled person: The use of the adjective "differently-abled" in the term "differently-abled person" is euphemistic and can be considered patronizing or offensive.

OBS

person with a disability: The plural form of "disability" is used in expressions such as "persons with disabilities" or "people with disabilities" to highlight the variety of disabilities present within a group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
DEF

Personne ayant une déficience physique, mentale, intellectuelle, cognitive ou sensorielle, un trouble d'apprentissage ou de la communication, ou une limitation fonctionnelle, de nature permanente, temporaire ou épisodique, manifeste ou non, qui nuit à sa participation pleine et égale dans la société lorsqu'elle est confrontée à un obstacle.

OBS

personne en situation de handicap; personne vivant avec un handicap; personne handicapée; personne ayant une incapacité : Selon le contexte, un [de ces termes] pourrait mieux convenir. Par exemple, le terme «personne en situation de handicap» met l'accent sur la situation dans laquelle une personne se trouve et pourrait mieux convenir dans un contexte informel. Les termes «personne handicapée» et «personne ayant une incapacité» soulignent quant à eux la présence d'une déficience ou d'un trouble chez une personne et pourraient mieux convenir dans un contexte médical ou juridique.

OBS

handicapé; handicapée : Les termes «handicapé» ou «handicapée» employés comme noms peuvent être jugés offensants.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de las personas con discapacidad
DEF

[...] persona con [...] deficiencias físicas, mentales, intelectuales o sensoriales a largo plazo que, al interactuar con diversas barreras, puedan impedir su participación plena y efectiva en la sociedad, en igualdad de condiciones con las demás.

OBS

persona con discapacidad; discapacitado; minusválido: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que se prefiere en general la fórmula "persona con discapacidad" al uso del sustantivo "discapacitado", que, si bien no es reprochable desde el punto de vista lingüístico, supone aludir a la persona por una sola de sus características, en este caso la discapacidad. Tampoco se recomienda la voz "minusválido", utilizada durante mucho tiempo y aún presente en documentos y trámites diversos. […] se desaconseja su uso en los medios de comunicación, ya que en la actualidad se interpreta, en especial por los colectivos citados, como peyorativa. Asimismo se desaconsejan palabras o expresiones con matiz claramente despectivo (como "anormal", "subnormal", "deficiente", "incapaz", "inválido", "impedido", "disminuido"), así como las que denotan sufrimiento ("como sufre", "padece" o "arrastra una discapacidad").

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Record 3 2017-12-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Health Law
CONT

... the Supreme Court of Canada replaced the modified objective standard with a subjective standard for medical negligence cases involving product liability.

OBS

The subjective standard takes into account the attributes of the particular person whose conduct is in question. For example, the physically handicapped falls to be judged by the standard of what can be expected from a reasonably prudent person suffering from his disability.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Droit de la santé
CONT

[...] la norme subjective présente un défaut flagrant : elle est subordonnée au témoignage du demandeur quant à son état d'esprit, exposant le médecin à l'analyse rétrospective du patient et à sa rancœur.

Spanish

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Record 4 2015-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
DEF

An individual who has a sustained and severe physical limitation or disorder, a disabling condition or a condition that could lead to a disability.

OBS

plural form: persons with a severe physical disability. In general or social contexts, the plural form "people" may be substituted for "persons", which tends to be used in formal, government or legal documents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
DEF

Personne qui souffre de troubles ou de limitations physiques graves et persistants ou d'une affection débilitante ou entraînant une invalidité.

Spanish

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Record 5 2014-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
DEF

Any person who is deaf, hard of hearing or deafened.

OBS

person with a hearing loss: term and definition recommended by the Terminology and Language Standardization Board of the Canadian Government, November 1994.

OBS

person with a hearing loss: this term applies only to individuals; it should never be used in reference to the community to which they belong. To refer to a community of persons with this disability, use specific terms such as persons who are deaf, deafened persons, or persons who are hard of hearing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
DEF

Toute personne sourde, malentendante ou devenue sourde.

OBS

personne ayant une déficience auditive : terme et définition recommandés par la Commission générale de normalisation terminologique et linguistique du gouvernement du Canada, novembre 1994.

OBS

personne ayant une déficience auditive : ce terme sert à désigner les individus seulement; on ne doit jamais l'employer à l'égard de la collectivité dont ils sont membres. Pour désigner celle-ci, on utilisera le spécifique, par exemple personnes sourdes, devenues sourdes ou malentendantes.

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
  • Protection of Life
DEF

A person who is moved from or who removes himself or herself from a place of actual orpotential danger to a place of relative safety.

OBS

An evacuee may be a person who is injured, sick, handicapped or unhurt.

OBS

evacuee; evacuated person: terms and definition standardized by the Canadian Capability-Based Planning Terminology Committee and the Translation Bureau.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences
  • Sécurité des personnes
DEF

Personne que l'on déplace ou qui se déplace par ses propres moyens d'un lieu présentantun danger réel ou potentiel vers un endroit relativement sûr.

OBS

Un évacué peut être une personne blessée, malade, handicapée ou une personne indemne.

OBS

évacué; évacuée; personne évacuée : termes et définition normalisés par le Comité de terminologie de la planification axée sur les capacités au Canada et le Bureau de la traduction.

Spanish

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Record 7 2008-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

A test used in an action for negligence where a defendant will be held liable if he should reasonably have foreseen that consequences of a certain kind were likely to result.

CONT

The nervous shock cases raise... the question whether a person's peculiar susceptibility to injury entitles him to special regard in the exercise of care from others. There used to be impressive support for the view that conformity to an external and objective standard of normality was postulated for plaintiff and defendant alike.... Eventually, however, this viewpoint yielded to the more open-minded foreseeability test... we have come to recognize that even those endowed with less psychic robustness than the model person or the physically handicapped are entitled to consideration from those whose activities foreseeably create unreasonable hazards in their path....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
DEF

A person having subaverage general intellectual functioning and concurrent deficits in adaptive behaviour which are a hindrance to achievement and development.

OBS

Even if the term "mentally retarded" is recommended by WHO, it is often considered as a pejorative one.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
DEF

Personne ayant une aptitude intellectuelle générale nettement inférieure à la moyenne, avec des difficultés dans le comportement adaptatif l'empêchant d'atteindre un niveau de développement normal.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de las personas con discapacidad
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Record 9 2003-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
OBS

Ne pas confondre avec «personne ayant une déficience physique».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de las personas con discapacidad
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Record 10 2003-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
DEF

Someone suffering from defects in the muscles, nerves, or centres that produce movement.

OBS

plural form: persons with a motor disability. In general or social contexts, the plural form "people" may be substituted for "persons", which tends to be used in formal, government or legal documents.

Key term(s)
  • motor handicapped person

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de las personas con discapacidad
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Record 11 2003-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
OBS

Ne pas confondre avec «personne ayant une incapacité physique».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de las personas con discapacidad
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Record 12 2003-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
OBS

incapacité : État d'une personne qui, en raison d'une déficience, ne peut accomplir certains actes ou exercer une activité d'une manière dite normale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología de las personas con discapacidad
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Record 13 2002-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
DEF

Personne ayant une déficience auditive ou visuelle.

OBS

handicapé sensoriel : Lexique sur les garderies.

Spanish

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Record 14 2002-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
Key term(s)
  • socially-disabled person
  • socially-handicapped person

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

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Record 15 2002-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transportation
DEF

A person who, by reason of illness, injury, age or disability is unable without special facilities or planning to utilize public transportation services as effectively as others.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transports

Spanish

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Record 16 2002-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
  • Loans
  • Education (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
  • Prêts et emprunts
  • Pédagogie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 17 2002-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
Key term(s)
  • print disabled person
  • print-handicapped person
  • print-handicapped
  • print-disabled

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

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Record 18 2000-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
OBS

Plural forms: persons with a severe disability; persons with severe disabilities

Key term(s)
  • severely-disabled person
  • severely-handicapped person
  • severely-handicapped
  • severely-disabled

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

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Record 19 2000-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

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Record 20 1997-11-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seminar Titles
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
OBS

FOAPH/WAFAH [West African Federation of Associations for the Advancement of Handicapped Person] ;Dakar, 7-15 December 1982.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de séminaires
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de seminarios
  • Sociología de las personas con discapacidad
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Record 21 1995-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport Personnel and Services
  • Passenger Service (Rail Transport)
DEF

Any able-bodied adult having use of all limbs and eyesight, who is physically capable of assisting the disabled person to an exit in the event of an emergency and attending to the personal needs of the handicapped passenger during flight.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Personnel et services (Transport aérien)
  • Trafic voyageurs (Transport par rail)
DEF

Tout adulte ayant l'usage de ses membres et de ses yeux, physiquement capable d'amener une personne handicapée vers une issue de secours en cas d'urgence et qui voit aux besoins personnels de ce passager pendant le vol.

Spanish

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Record 22 1993-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

Multidisciplinary research, training, and service organization providing custom-designed and custom-made tools and devices, along with intensive personal task-performance and driver training, to aid the handicapped person in becoming more self-sufficient and independent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 23 1987-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Services and Social Work
  • Paramedical Staff
DEF

... a person [prepared] to assist the elderly, convalescent, or handicapped in their homes and to provide for their daily living needs which may be described as physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
  • Personnel para-médical
OBS

Équivalent adopté par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des services sociaux.

Spanish

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Record 24 1987-05-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
DEF

Shoe worn by a handicapped person otherwise too short to drive a car, for example.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées

Spanish

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Record 25 1986-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology (General)
DEF

a person who is handicapped or at a disadvantage because of injustice, discrimination, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie (Généralités)
DEF

Personne de faible revenu socialement défavorisée.

Spanish

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Record 26 1985-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology
OBS

e. g. Black, woman, handicapped person [...]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie
CONT

"Eddie Murphy est l'anti-Michael Jackson. Il est en passe de devenir l'acteur noir fétiche du reaganisme triomphant. Un noir alibi, très utile dans une société où, en contrepoint de la croissance économique, se développe une misère noire auprès de laquelle nos nouveaux pauvres ne sont que du folklore."

Spanish

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Record 27 1983-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment
OBS

(...) automatic dialer gives the handicapped person(...) the ability to select and dial a pre-recorded number. Trademark of American Telecommunications Corporation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical
OBS

(...) permet aux personnes handicapées (...) de faire un certain nombre de numéros pré-sélectionnés. Marque déposée de l'American Telecommunications Corporation.

Spanish

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Record 28 1983-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment
OBS

(...) for handicapped students unable to attend classes in person. A two-way transistorized intercom system(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical
OBS

(...) pour les étudiants handicapés (...) système d'intercom à transistors qui assure des communications dans les deux sens (...)

Spanish

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