Significant Disability
Subtitle: Issues Affecting People With Significant Disabilities from a Historical Policy, Leadership, and Systems Perspective
Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780398071929
Subjects: Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Social Work; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Government policy; Mental health; People with disabilities; Rehabilitation; United States; Sociology
First sentence: THE 1987 AMENDMENTS to the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act signaled a major change in the perspective and attitudes held toward persons with developmental disabilities and similarly enhanced the concept of habilitation/rehabilitation by introducing into legislation the values of independence, productivity, and integration.