impaired

(ĭm-pârd′)

adj.

1. Diminished, damaged, or weakened: an impaired sense of smell.

2. Functioning poorly or incompetently: a driver so tired as to be impaired.

3. Having a physical or mental disability.

n. (used with a pl. verb)

People who have a physical or mental disability considered as a group. Usually used in combination: communication aids for the speech-impaired.

impaired

adjective Acting under a handicap.

Patient discussion about impaired

Q. What is impaired at .08 blood-alcohol content? Hello there, What is impaired at .08 blood-alcohol content?

A. The limit for workers to enter the protected area of a commercial nuclear power plant is 0.04. (I retired from one in July.)

So to answer your question directly, it impairs your ability to think, work, and make critical decisions.

It affects those around you, especially family if the person persists and drinks irresponsibly all the time.

Drinking affects one's ability to drive an automobile properly, not just for the driver, but for the safety of passengers and those in other autos. If you care for other people, you won't drink and drive.
Don't drink and drive. The law is far too lenient.

You can't get back what you lose when you drink irresponsibly.
What you lose may be things intangible that are the most precious in life.

Q. I would like to improve myself besides taking meds. Can any one advice me? Hi I’m Genaro with FM (Fibromyalgia). I am taking meds regularly which is prescribed by my physician. I would like to improve myself besides taking meds. Can any one advice me?

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Hiring employees who are visually impaired can positively impact the workplace in many ways.

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"Ahmad is an example of what a visually impaired person can accomplish.

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She added that the equipment used by the visually impaired and blind needed maintenance and that some of the teaching methods did not favour them.

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"The visually impaired can read the Qur'an easily and navigate through the pages easily as the entire Qur'an is registered on the board," he said.

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He expressed his hope that very soon they (hearing impaired persons) would get a good news.

Need for Universal Sign language Dictionary for hearing impaired persons stressed

There may be circumstances where there is not enough information to know if a nurse who is impaired, or suspected of being impaired, committed a practice violation.

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The project supported the installation of high quality Braille printers in order to enhance the printing capacity and efficiency of Braille textbooks for visually impaired students.

Japan provides Braille printers to visually impaired students

NLP, working under National History and Literary Heritage (NH and LH) Division, is also working on a proposal to depute visually impaired staff to assist the readers in online searching material, using Braille printers and other such activities, NLP Director Syed Ghayour Hussain said.

NLP to appoint visually impaired staff to assist readers

Codeveloped by the nonprofit organization Adaptive Technology for Rehabilitation, Integration and Empowerment of the Visually Impaired (Atriev) Computer Training Center for the Blind, Microsoft Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila University's education department (in partnership with CBM Philippines and the Norfil Foundation), the Digital Literacy Training Manual is a comprehensive step-by-step guide for teachers and trainers who want to introduce the use of Microsoft productivity tools in tandem with a screen-reader software for teaching the visually impaired.

Blind leads the blind in computer literacy