Encyclopedia of disability and rehabilitation
By: Arthur E. Dell Orto, Robert P. Marinelli, editors.
Contributors: Dell Orto, Arthur E., 1943-; Marinelli, Robert P., 1942-
Publisher: Macmillan Library Reference USA; Simon & Schuster and Prentice Hall International
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 820
Subjects: People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Encyclopedias
Genres: Encyclopedias.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ability -- Accessibility -- Adjustment Services -- Adolescents, rehabilitation of -- Advocacy -- Affirmative action -- Aging -- Alcohol Rehabilitation -- Allied health professions -- Alzheimer’s disease -- Americans with Disabilities Act -- Amputation -- Animals -- Anxiety Disorders -- Aphasia -- Architectural accessibility -- Art therapy -- Arthritis -- Assessment in rehabilitation -- Assistive technology -- Attitudes -- Audiology -- Autism -- Back disorders -- Behavior therapy -- Blindness and vision disorders -- Blood disorders -- Burns -- Cancer rehabilitation -- Career Counseling -- Caregiving -- Childhood disabilities -- Childhood psychiatric disorders -- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- Civil Rights -- Clinical Supervision -- Clothing -- Communication Disabilities -- Computer applications for visual disabilities -- Computers -- Consumers -- Coronary artery disease -- Correctional rehabilitation -- Credentials -- Dance / Movement Therapy -- Deaf-blindness -- Deafness and hearing impairment -- Deinstitutionalization -- Developmental disabilities -- Disability -- Disability law and social policy -- Disability management -- Drug rehabilitation -- Eating disorders -- Economics -- Employee assistance programs -- Endocrine disorders -- Engineering, rehabilitation -- Ergonomics -- Ethics -- Evaluation of rehabilitation programs -- Facilities -- Family -- Forensic rehabilitation -- Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) -- Future of rehabilitation -- Gallaudet University -- Gastrointestinal disorders -- Genetic disorders -- Growth disorders -- Head injury -- History of rehabilitation -- Homelessness -- Hospice -- Hospital, rehabilitation -- Housing -- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- Human resource development -- Human services -- Independent living -- Information resources -- International rehabilitation -- Job placement -- Keller, Helen -- Kidney disorders -- Labor unions -- Learning disabilities -- Life care planning -- Loss and grief -- Management -- Massage therapy -- Mental retardation -- Minorities -- Mood disorders -- Multiple disabilities -- Musculoskeletal disorders -- Music therapy -- Neurological disorders -- Neurology -- Neuromuscular disorders -- Normalization and social role valorization -- Nursing, rehabilitation -- Occupational information -- Occupational therapy -- Organic mental syndromes -- Pain -- Pediatric rehabilitation -- Personal assistance services -- Personality disorders -- Pharmacology -- Philosophy of rehabilitation -- Physical therapy -- Physician -- President’s Committee for the Employment of People with Disabilities -- Private sector rehabilitation -- Prosthetics and orthotics -- Psychiatric rehabilitation -- Psychiatry -- Psychology -- Psychology, rehabilitation -- Psychosocial adjustment -- Quality of life -- Reasonable accommodation -- Recreation -- Rehabilitation center -- Rehabilitation counseling -- Rehabilitation education -- Religion -- Research, rehabilitation -- Respiratory disease -- Respite care -- Rural rehabilitation -- Rusk, Howard A. -- Schizophrenia -- Self-concept -- Self-help -- Sexuality and disability -- Sickle Cell Anemia and Thalassemia (hemoglobinopathies) -- Social work practice in rehabilitation -- Sociology -- Special education -- Spinal cord injury -- State - federal rehabilitation program -- Statistics -- Stroke -- Supported employment -- Surgery -- Switzer, Mary -- Technology and disability -- Transition from school to work -- Transportation accessibility -- Veterans’ medical rehabilitation in the U.S. -- Department of Veterans Affairs -- Veteran vocational rehabilitation in the U.S. -- Department of Veterans Affairs -- Violence -- Vocational evaluation -- Wellness -- Wheelchairs -- Women in rehabilitation -- Work.