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Enabling Environments - Measuring the Impact of Environment on Disability and Rehabilitation (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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Enabling Environments - Measuring the Impact of Environment on Disability and Rehabilitation (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: Springer Series in Rehabilitation and Health
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TItis volume is the first effort to compile representative work in
the emerging research area on the relationship of disability and
physical environment since Barrier-Free Environments, edited by
Michael Bednar, was published in 1977. Since that time, disability
rights legislation like the Americans, with Disabilities Act in the
United States, the worldwide growth of the independent-living move
ment, rapid deinstitutionalization, and the maturation of
functional assessment methodology have all had their impact on this
research area. The impact has been most noticeable in two
ways-fostering the integration of environmental vari ables in
rehabilitation research and practice, and changing paradigms for
environ mental interventions. As the contributions in this volume
demonstrate, the relationship of disabil ity and physical
environment is no longer of interest primarily to designers and
other professionals concerned with managing the resources of the
built environ ment. The physical environment has always been
recognized as an important variable affecting rehabilitation
outcome. Until recently, however, concepts and tools were not
available to measure its impact in clinical practic and outcomes
research. In particular, lack of a theoretical foundation that
integrated environ ment with the disablement process hampered
development of both research and clinical methodology. Thus, the
physical environment received little attention from the mainstream
rehabilitation research community. However, this situation is
changing rapidly."
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