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Labor unions
Use: Unions
Landmines
Use: War injuries
Language [SCOPE NOTE: Means of communication, including reception and expression; includes pronunciation and foreign languages]
Narrower terms: Sign language
Related Terms: Aphasia, Communication, Language disorders, Language learning, Learning disabilities, Speech, Speech impairments
Language disorders [SCOPE NOTE: Disorders relating to an inability to communicate, including reception and expression of ideas]
Narrower terms: Speech impairments
Related Terms: Language, Language learning
Use for: Communication disorders
Language learning [SCOPE NOTE: Process of learning language, including learning foreign languages; language development]
Related Terms: Aphasia, Child development, Language, Language disorders, Learning disabilities, Sign language, Speech, Speech impairments, Speech therapy, Stuttering
Laryngectomy [SCOPE NOTE: Excision of the larynx]
Broader Terms: Surgery
Related Terms: Speech impairments
Late deafened
Use: Deaf
Law enforcement
Related Terms: Correctional facilities, Crime prevention, Juvenile delinquency, Legal services, Public offenders
Use for: Criminal justice
Laws
Use: Legislation
Learning [SCOPE NOTE: Includes learning curves, rates, how a person learns, and learning theory]
Related Terms: Child development, Cognition, Education, Intelligence, Learning disabilities, Math skills, Memory, Perception, Programmed instruction, Reading skills, Students, Teachers, Writing skills
Learning disabilities [SCOPE NOTE: Includes specific difficulties in learning to read (Dyslexia), write (Dysgraphia), or calculate (Dyscalculia); includes persons with learning disabilities]
Broader Terms: Developmental disabilities, Disabilities
Related Terms: Education, Language, Language learning, Learning, Motor skills
Use for: Dyslexia
Least-Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Use: Inclusion
Legal concerns [SCOPE NOTE: Includes legal concerns of disability]
Related Terms: Advocacy, Affirmative action, Court cases, Legal services
Legal services [SCOPE NOTE: Includes law, lawyers, or services on legal matters]
Related Terms: Correctional facilities, Law enforcement, Legal concerns, Legislation
Legislation [SCOPE NOTE: Includes acts, laws, bills; federal, regional, and local level hearings; enactment of laws; for implementation of laws, use REGULATIONS]
Narrower terms: Accessibility legislation, Employment legislation
Related Terms: Advocacy, Court cases, Legal services, Regulations
Use for: Disability rights, Laws, Mandate
Legs
Use: Limbs
Leisure [SCOPE NOTE: Includes leisure planning, leisure therapy, and leisure specialists]
Related Terms: Arts, Exercise, Physical fitness, Recreation, Sports, Volunteers
Leprosy
Related Terms: Facial disfigurement
Use for: Hansens disease
Libraries [SCOPE NOTE: Includes library services, policy, and development, librarians, and librarianship; also used for information centers and clearinghouses which provide information services to a public and which have a collection of materials or data]
Broader Terms: Information resources
Related Terms: Information networks, Information referral, Information systems
Use for: Clearinghouses, Information centers
Licensing
Use: Accreditation, Certification
Life care planning [SCOPE NOTE: An interdisciplinary and scientific process of developing
individualized life-long plans designed to project the future
needs, services, and costs of individuals usually requiring
long-term care as a result of a catastrophic illness or injury,
term added December 1994]
Broader Terms: Planning
Related Terms: Community living, Costs, Health care, Testimony
Life skills training
Use: Daily living
Life-stage adjustment
Use: Adjustment
Limbs [SCOPE NOTE: For natural limbs; for artificial limbs, use PROSTHETICS]
Broader Terms: Anatomy, Body
Related Terms: Arthritis, Bones
Use for: Arms, Extremities, Insensitive limbs, Legs, Lower extremities, Upper extremities
Lip reading
Use: Communication skills, Interpreting
Literacy
Use: Reading skills
Literature reviews
Use: Reviews
Litigation
Use: Court cases
Living facilities [SCOPE NOTE: Facilities designated for persons with disabilities or mental retardation]
Narrower terms: Group homes, Halfway houses, Housing, Nursing homes
Broader Terms: Facilities
Related Terms: Community living, Day care, Independent living, Residential living
Lobbying
Use: Advocacy
Locomotion
Use: Ambulation, Mobility, Transportation, Wheelchairs
Locomotor skills
Use: Motor skills
Long term care [SCOPE NOTE: Indefinite period of personal care; includes convalescent care]
Related Terms: Attendant care, Chronic illness, Hospitals, Institutionalization, Nursing, Nursing homes
Long term outcome [SCOPE NOTE: Result observed after an extended period of timegenerally in
excess of one year; CIRRIE term added April 2000]
Broader Terms: Outcome
Longitudinal studies [SCOPE NOTE: Studies dealing with growth or change of an individual or group
over a period of years]
Related Terms: Feasibility studies, Research methodology
Lou Gehrig's disease
Use: Neuromuscular disorders
Low back pain
Use: Back pain
Low income [SCOPE NOTE: Excludes WELFARE and POVERTY]
Related Terms: Poverty, Welfare
Use for: Public assistance
Low vision
Broader Terms: Vision, Visual impairments
Related Terms: Blind, Blindness, Deaf blind
Use for: Cataracts, Low vision aids, Low vision clinics, Magnification, Partially sighted, Residual vision
Low vision aids
Use: Low vision, Sensory aids
Low vision clinics
Use: Clinics, Low vision
Lower extremities
Use: Limbs
LRE (Least-restrictive environment)
Use: Inclusion
Lung diseases
Use: Respiratory disease
Lupus [SCOPE NOTE: An inflammatory disease of unknown origin involving vascular and connective tissues of many organs with resultant multiple local and systemic symptoms, term added December 1994]
Broader Terms: Autoimmune disorders
Use for: DLE (Discoid lupus erythematosus), Discoid Lupus Erythematosus (DLE), SLE, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
