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  • Occupational Therapy

    Adoption Legal Definition of Occupational Therapy Meaning of Occupational Therapy The science of using everyday activities with specific goals, to help people of all ages prevent, lessen or overcome physical disabilities.Learn more with the […]

  • Game

    Game

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Game Meaning of Game Birds and beasts of a wild nature obtained by fowling or hunting. A sport, pastime or contest . In the context of statutes prohibiting or regulating Gambling , a game may be defined […]

  • Game

    Game

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Game Meaning of Game Birds and beasts of a wild nature obtained by fowling or hunting. A sport, pastime or contest . In the context of statutes prohibiting or regulating Gambling , a game may be defined […]

  • Special

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Special Meaning of Special That which relates to a particular species or kind, or is confined to a particular person, object or class, opposed to general; as, special verdict and general verdict; special […]

  • Custody

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Custody Meaning of Custody The care and keeping of anything; safekeeping, protection, charge , care, guardianship. imprisonment , as in the words to be in custody. A restraint on one’s liberty . […]

  • Vulnerability

    Is the degree to which people are susceptible to the impact of a crisis, including loss, damage, suffering or death. Vulnerability can relate to physical, economic, social, political, legal, technical, ideological, cultural, educational, ecological and institutional conditions.

  • Residential Schools

    Definition of Residential Schools The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Residential Schools: Widely established across Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the north, these schools were established to bring basic education to […]

  • Special Needs Child

    A child with medical, mental, emotional, behavioral, or educational needs that could require extra on-going attention….

  • Neglect

    To fail to do something, to leave out, omit through carelessness. The term may also be equivalent to fault and imprudence. A disregard of duty owing to indifference or wilfulness. Pima County Adoption of B-6355 and H-533, (Matter o appeal)575 P.2d326, 118 Ariz. 127. Neglect is said to stand […]

  • Actual residence

    Generalization would, once again, be risky, for whether a place is an actual residence will once again turn on the purpose with which the term is used. For example, a university student who moved with wife and family into a private house would almost undoubtedly have his actual […]

  • Neglected

    A child (see Children Protection in Connecticut) or youth may be found neglected who (A) has been abandoned, (B) is being denied proper care and attention, physically, ed…

  • Total Disability

    In the occupational sense, the term denotes inability to perform one’s trade or inability to perform reasonably gainful employment. For purposes of disability insurance, the term does not mean a state of absolute helplessness or inability to perform any task relating to one’s employment […]