Disabilities Sourcebook
Subtitle: Basic Consumer Health Information About Physical and Psychiatric Disabilities, Including Descriptions of Major Causes of Disability, Assistive and (Health Reference Series)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Omnigraphics
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780780803893
Subjects: People with disabilities; Physical Impairments; Handicapped; Consumer Guides To Health Care; Services For The Mentally & Physically Challenged (General); Psychiatry - General; Consumer Health; People with mental disabilities; Medical; People with mental disabilitie; Essays; Diet / Health / Fitness; Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; United States; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Handbooks, manuals,etc
Table of contents: title: People with Disabilities. Who is severely handicapped? : the need for a workable definition -- Chartbook on disability in the United States -- Families with disabilities in the United States -- A family systems approach to disability -- Learning disabilities -- Independent living research -- Staying fully alive -- Aging with a major physical disability -- Major Causes of Disabilities. Targeting arthritis : the nation’s leading cause of disability -- Coping with arthritis in its many forms -- What to do when your back is in pain -- Managing life with chronic pain -- Paraplegia and quadriplegia -- Multiple Sclerosis -- Cerebral Palsy -- Aging and Cerebral Palsy -- Diabetes -- Amputation -- Visual impairments -- Deafness and hearing impairment -- Deaf-blindness -- Assistive and adaptive aids. Assistive technology services -- Informed consumer guide to accessible housing -- Informed consumer guide to wheelchair selection -- Informed consumer guide to office equipment for people with visual disabilities -- Augmentative and alternative communication -- Assistive listening devices in education and vocational rehabilitation -- Telephone services for disabled people -- Cell phones, TTYs, and you -- Physically disabled drivers -- Sports for disabled individuals -- Service animals offer help and friendship -- Commonly asked questions about taking service animals in places of business -- Employment and workplace issues. Social Security : working while disabled... how we can help? -- Chartbook on work and disabilities -- Special issues in disability management -- Overview of accommodation solutions -- How to protect yourself against employment discrimination -- Job protections for parents of children with disabilities -- Private matters -- Workplace rulings regarding addiction -- When cancer comes to work -- The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other legal and financial issues. Questions and answers about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) -- ADA protection for patients with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) -- Extending the ADA to workers afflicted with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) -- Should mental illness fall under the ADA? -- ADA : who isn’t covered -- The future of disability policy -- Federal requirements for accessibility -- Making special needs estate planning a “snap” -- Additional help and information. Glossary of disability terms -- Organizations serving people with disabilities -- Technical assistance program -- ADA information services -- How to apply for a seeing eye dog -- Financial assistance for people who are blind or visually impaired -- Resources for the blind and visually impaired -- Resources for accessible housing.