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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Amy, who previously attended a mainstream school but found she didn't get the support she needed, believes schools need more habilitation workers helping them.
From BBC • May 4, 2023
As well-known American audiologist Jane Madell says about advances in technology, hearing screening, and habilitation in the United States: “It's not the same old deafness.”
From Scientific American • Aug. 3, 2021
Because of medical issues, Joey wasn’t eligible for some of the other day habilitation centers in Tuscaloosa County.
From Washington Times • Apr. 15, 2015
Exceptional Child Center, was filed against Richard Armstrong, director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, by five providers of residential habilitation services to children with disabilities.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2014
Finally, the strong and favorable bearing of this last on the dissolution of agnosticism and the habilitation of the ideals, the True, the Beautiful, and the Good, in a heightened meaning, is brought out.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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