Word Finder - handicapped

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To encumber with a handicap in any contest.

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(by extension) To place at disadvantage.

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The candidate was handicapped by her lack of experience.

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To estimate betting odds.

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Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.

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A disabled person.

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Having a handicap.

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Limited by an impediment of some kind.

His mother died and his father doesn't want to be troubled with a handicapped child.

Handicapped by poverty, John had to face attacks from two quarters.

If needed, are handicapped ramps available?

Elizabeth was terribly handicapped by having no heirs of her body and no obvious English successor.

In the description of battles and military operations generally Grote was handicapped by the lack of personal knowledge of the country.

Genoa has in the past been somewhat handicapped in the race by the insufficiency of railway communication, which, owing to the mountains which encircle it, is difficult to secure, many tunnels being necessary.

Children with developmental disabilities or who become handicapped through accident or illness often need special assistance at home and at school.

Few men in American public life have possessed more intrinsic worth, more independence, more public spirit and more ability than Adams, but throughout his political career he was handicapped by a certain reserve, a certain austerity and coolness of manner, and by his consequent inability to appeal to the imaginations and affections of the people as a whole.

Delicate health, by which he was more or less handicapped throughout his life, prevented his going to college, but he was naturally a diligent student.

He'd mentioned her a number of times and I know he felt she had potential but was handicapped by her lack of self respect.

Are the medical needs of mentally handicapped adults being met?

Physical centers for Braille reading The Inlaks library seems to be the model library for the visually handicapped in Nigeria.

Bluebird Society for Disabled Helping physically handicapped people to have a better quality of life.

Siegfried readily agreed, and though handicapped by carrying shield, sword and spear, easily reached the goal first, but waited, with his customary courtesy, until the king had arrived and drunk before slaking his own thirst.

Adopting an infant can be very expensive, but it doesn't always have to be, especially if you are adopting a minority child or a handicapped child.

A 30-year old mentally handicapped woman who was obsessed with Paula Abdul committed suicide in her car in front of the singer's home.

More than 1,000 parking spaces are available for cruise ship passengers in numerous rooftop lots, and handicapped spaces are also available.

For elderly or handicapped gardeners, raised beds make it easier to sit on a chair or in a wheelchair and garden.

Line-voltage, or 120-volt systems, are not handicapped by these limitations.

You will also want to find out whether the center offers transportation that is accessible to handicapped seniors.

The scales are equally applicable to handicapped and non-handicapped children.

Trials and Tribulations of Living Life as a Handicapped Person Due to Multiple Birth Defects.

When the mental deficiency is less severe, the child may be diagnosed with minimal brain dysfunction or as neurologically handicapped.

The chances of abuse are higher if the child is developmentally handicapped or vulnerable in some other way.

At other times, the parent may truly care about the child but lacks the ability or strength to adequately provide for the child's needs because handicapped by depression, drug abuse, mental retardation, or some other problem.

In 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHCA, PL 94-142) mandated that states provide a "free and appropriate public education" (FAPE) to all students, including those with physical, mental, or behavioral disabilities.

In fact, some of these schools may address some of the most severely handicapped populations.

It is tough being black, being a woman, being handicapped, being singled out for anything.

Apart from this advantage, placed in his hands by the imprudence of Stein, Napoleon was heavily handicapped at the Erfurt interview.

Though handicapped in his later years by delicate health, his intellectual grasp and wide knowledge and research gradually made him famous as a jurist and historian.

The Army of the Shenandoah would not be thus handicapped, for Sheridan was a leader of exceptional character.

He was handicapped by the mutual jealousy of the Saxons and the Poles, and a struggle broke out in Poland which was only ended when the king promised to limit the number of his army in that country to 18,000 men.

It may be objected that candidates are heavily handicapped by nervousness in oral examinations, but this objection does not afford sufficient ground for rejecting the test, provided that it is supplemented by others.

In dealing with Plato he was handicapped by this very common sense, which prevented him from appreciating the theory of ideas in its widest relations.

The Italian attacks, handicapped by the limitation imposed, made little headway, though they prevented the dispatch of Austrian units already under orders for the eastern front.

Taylor's brilliant victory, won when he was so greatly handicapped by 'Polk, emphasized the popular discontent which that president's policy had already aroused, and suggested him to the political leaders as a presidential possibility.

In the years before Hampshire's county lunatic asylum existed, the Winchester workhouse provided care for " lunatic and mentally handicapped paupers " .

A severely handicapped teenager who cannot walk, talk, or hold a paintbrush has won a place at Oxford to study fine art.

The Club also runs internal competitions, which are handicapped to allow all shooters to compete on an even level.

She wrote The Story of My Life (1902), and volumes on Optimism (1903), and The World I Live in (1908), which both in literary style and in outlook on life are a striking revelation of the results of modern methods of educating those who have been so handicapped by natural disabilities.

Regular industrial work is however handicapped by competition with the tourist trade in its several branches - acting as guides and camp servants, manufacture and sale of " souvenirs ' (carved toys and trinklets in mother - of-pearl and olive-wood, forged antiquities and the like), and the analogous trade in objets de piete (rosaries, crosses, crude religious pictures, &c.) for pilgrims. Travellers in the country squander their money recklessly, and these trades, at once easy and lucrative, are thus fatally attractive to the indolent Syrian and prejudicial to the best interests of the country.

If there is a delay in fine-motor adaptive development combined with delays in other developmental domains, the doctor will consider whether the child is visually impaired or mentally handicapped.

These grants may also be used to modify houses for handicapped access or to repair unsafe areas of a home.

Eric Schopler began the Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children (TEACCH) program based upon the idea of autism culture in the 1970's.

Treatment and Education of Autistic and Communication Related Handicapped Children (TEACCH) is a comprehensive program that involves every step of dealing with autistic disorders, beginning with diagnosis.

The theaters are handicapped accessible with accommodations for the hearing and mobility-impaired.

Like his predecessor, Prince Gorchakov, he was educated at the lyceum of Tsarskoye Selo, near St Petersburg, but his career was much less rapid, because he had no influential protectors, and was handicapped by being a Protestant of Teutonic origin.

Agriculture and grazing occupy some attention in the north, but are handicapped by lack of water.

Though delicate in health and in later life handicapped by deafness, he showed from the first marked ability and fighting force.

The high cost of coal, the speculative attractions of mining, and the high wages of labour, handicapped the development of manufactures in early years.