habilitation
Americannoun
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the act or process of becoming fit or of making fit for a particular purpose.
For at-risk youth, combining school and work makes more sense, expanding their education and habilitation to include hands-on training.
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a program of teaching basic living skills to someone with a disability, as in a group home.
Without early intervention and residential habilitation, our son would be so much more dependent than he is now.
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Often Habilitation (in European and other educational systems) the act or process of qualifying as professor or instructor after having earned one’s doctorate, or the thesis or book written for this qualification.
After her doctorate and habilitation in New York and San José respectively, she joined the University of Konstanz as a professor of experimental solid-state physics in 2002.
Etymology
Origin of habilitation
First recorded in 1620–30; from Latin habilitātiōn-, stem of habilitātiō “a making fit, an enabling”; see habilitate ( def. ), -ion ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Residents at Eastern State Hospital and Lakeland Village Residential Habilitation Center had remained sheltered in place as of 8:30 p.m.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2023
Habilitation teachers instruct blind young people on key life skills that others learn through sight, such as cooking and route planning.
From BBC • May 4, 2023
When leaders prepared to invite a small group of the Community for All Day Habilitation Program participants back in person, they wanted to ensure their safety.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021
Sometimes, in the “total care” room at Gompers Habilitation Center in west Phoenix, she plays music.
From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2019
Both the Palm Beach Habilitation Center and the Kravis Center are calling emergency board meetings for early this week to discuss whether to keep their events at the club, per today’s Palm Beach Post.
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2017
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