learning disabilities.

I met psychosocial workers who worked with them.

They had profound intellectual disabilities.

Some have arm or leg disabilities.

These children are quickly labeled as having disabilities and transferred to another institution for children with disabilities.

I think I'm looking and talking about the psychosocial effects of inequality.

December 3 is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

The first one is education, especially for kids with disabilities.

Most public places are simply not geared to people with disabilities.

Suddenly we have a handle on the psychosocial well being of whole societies, and that's exciting.

Let's resist the temptation to classify other people based on their disabilities or their challenges.

The Paralympics, just for a little bit of clarification, are the Olympics for people with physical disabilities amputees, persons with cerebral palsy, and wheelchair athletes as opposed to the Special Olympics, which deals with people with mental disabilities.

For those without disabilities, at age three, they're transferred to another institution, and at age seven, to yet another.

And Baron Cohen explained that certain disabilities can manifest themselves in the hacking and computing world as tremendous skills, and that we should not be throwing in jail people who have such disabilities and skills because they have lost their way socially or been duped.

They said even if she did survive, her disabilities would be so severe that Bella would not have a life worth living.

It's a long term state hospital, where several years ago we started working with Hyperscore and patients with physical and mental disabilities.

So our hope is to eventually build brain coprocessors that work with the brain so we can augment functions in people with disabilities.

Nobody taught us how to deal with such kinds of disabilities, and as many questions as possible started to come to our minds.

In the United States, probably the most astonishing statistic is a 600 percent increase in autism and autistic spectrum disorders and other learning disabilities.

And as you can see virtually 30 of all disabilities from all medical causes can be attributed to mental disorders or neuro psychiatric syndromes.

There was a point in our history in which, if you were considered disabled, that an employer could just fire you, before the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Jean Vanier helped found the L'Arche communities, which you can now find all over the world, communities centered around life with people with mental disabilities mostly Down syndrome.

And over the years, that center grew into something called the Cooke Center, where there are now thousands upon thousands of children with intellectual disabilities who are being taught.

I think that if we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have.

Well, a student welfare group deals with any kinds of problems that we see in a school having to do with problems at home or at learning disabilities, multi cultural problems.

Our site leaders are 90 under the age of 30, they're 44 lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, a third are people of color, lt br gt and a quarter of them have disabilities.

What we want is to make sure that those individuals with autism can be free from the devastating consequences that come with it at times, the profound intellectual disabilities, the lack of language, the profound, profound isolation.

And in my own trial in Goa, in India, we again showed that lay counselors drawn from local communities could be trained to deliver psychosocial interventions for depression, anxiety, leading to 70 percent recovery rates as compared to 50 percent in the comparison primary health centers.

For those who have disabilities the paraplegic there's the era of brain computer interface, or BCl, where chips have been put on the motor cortex of completely quadriplegic patients and they can control a curser or a wheelchair or, eventually, a robotic arm.

To make matters worse, national failures can no longer be addressed without aggravating the situation. Of course indeed, above all in such circumstances the immense investments needed to overcome underdevelopment and the disabilities that it entails are increasingly forgotten by the world of international finance.

But we are now in a new era of neuroscience, one in which we can finally look directly at brain function in real time with no risks and no side effects, non invasively, and find the true source of so many disabilities in children.

One in particular that you probably wouldn't know about, stroke, which has been, along with heart disease, one of the biggest killers in the country along with cancer, is a disease we know now if you can get people into the hospital, into the emergency room within three hours of the onset, some 30 of them will leave the hospital without any disabilities whatsoever.