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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Cameron Henderson, who is currently in training to be an habilitation specialist, said having to commute from East Lothian to London to study, when he has a young family, was "really tricky".
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
He grew up at the Rainier School in Buckley, a habilitation center for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2020
Providers are responsible for all aspects of the person’s care, including medical needs, transportation and habilitation.
From Washington Times • Mar. 31, 2016
Nevertheless, where a stranger comes who bears the hall-mark of culture and refinement, the church connection is often an aid to social habilitation, though it should never be sought as such.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
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