Enabling Environments
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Overview
This collection focuses on methods for measuring the role of the physical environment in the disablement process and the limitations of current theory, knowledge, and research in the field. Linking the chapters is a new paradigm of research on accessibility, which emphasizes that disability is both a social and an individual process and is consistent with recent developments in a disability rights, rehabilitation practice, and environmental design.
Synopsis
This collection focuses on methods for measuring the role of the physical environment in the disablement process and the limitations of current theory, knowledge, and research in the field. Linking the chapters is a new paradigm of research on accessibility, which emphasizes that disability is both a social and an individual process and is consistent with recent developments in a disability rights, rehabilitation practice, and environmental design.
Booknews
Compiles representative work in the emerging research area on the relationship of disability to physical environment, in light of such disability rights legislation as the US Americans with Disabilities Act, the worldwide growth of the independent-living movement, rapid deinstitutionalization, and the maturation of functional assessment methodology. The authors, primarily architects and spatial designers, consider theory, reliability and validity, new directions in research methods, and measurement in practice. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)