Agency Arkansas Department of Career Education Street Address Luther Hardin Building Three Capitol Mall Little Rock, AR 72201 Phone (501) 682-1500 URL http://ace.arkansas.gov/index.html Agency Arkansas Department of Career Education’s Division of Rehabilitation Services Street Address 525 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, AR 72201 Phone (501) 296-1600 Toll-free (800) 330-0632 URL http://www.arsinfo.org/ Agency […]
Agency Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing Street Address 1400 West Washington, Room 126 Phoenix, AZ 85007 Phone (602).542-3323 URL http://acdhh.org/ Agency Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Aging and Adult Services Street Address 1789 West Jefferson Street (Site Code 950A) Phoenix, AZ 85007 Phone (602) […]
Agency Alaska Deaf Council Street Address P.O. Box 90129 Anchorage, AK 99509 Phone not available URL http://www.alaskadeafcouncil.org/index.html Agency Alaska Department of Education and Early Development Street Address 801 West 10th Street, Suite 200 P.O. Box 110500 Juneau, AK 99811 Phone (907) 465-2800 URL http://www.eed.state.ak.us/ Agency Alaska Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Street Address […]
Recommended disability data resources for health researchers and advocates: Annual Disability Statistics Collection The Annual Disability Statistics Compendium, Annual Report on People With Disabilities, the Build Your Own Statistics tool, and infographics gather disability statistics published by many federal agencies into one place. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) BRFSS is the nation’s premier system […]
Disability etiquette refers to guidelines on how to interact with people with disabilities. Because one in five Americans has a disability, the chance is great that you do or will in the future interact with someone with a disability. As with all people, it is important to treat people with disabilities how you would want […]
The relationship of physical function to social integration after stroke. Baseman S, Fisher K, Ward L, Bhattacharya A. Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ, USA. Baseman-susan@cooperhealth.edu J Neurosci Nurs. 2010 Oct;42(5):237-44. Stroke is a leading cause of death and a serious long-term disability in this country. Much of the research on stroke rehabilitation has focused on […]
Environmental factors and their role in community integration after spinal cord injury. Lysack C, Komanecky M, Kabel A, Cross K, Neufeld S. Occupational Therapy and Gerontology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA c.lysack@wayne.edu Can J Occup Ther. 2007; 74 Spec No.:243-54. BACKGROUND: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model presents an […]
OBJECTIVE: To describe social participation and identify factors that affect it in a nationally representative sample of adolescents and young adults with autism. METHODS: Longitudinal cohort study using data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2. The World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health model was used with participation as the dependent category. […]
The Controlling Asthma in American Cities Project (CAACP) was designed to improve the control of asthma in inner-city populations of children with a disparate burden of symptoms and adverse outcomes. As with many chronic diseases, asthma is the manifestation of multiple biologic, environmental, and social determinants. In addition to appropriate medical management, individuals with asthma […]
Better outcomes for chronic diseases remain elusive because success depends on events outside the control of the health care system: patients’ ability to mange their health behaviors and chronic diseases. Among the most powerful influences on self-management are the social and environmental constraints on healthy living, yet the clinical response to these environmental determinants is […]