A step towards implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) related to personal mobility.
Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development, Vol.25 (2014) pp.72-81
This article highlights some lessons about the strategy of community-based inclusive education, drawn from different programmes in Latin America.
BMC Pedaitrics. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-90
Series on Disability-Inclusive Development | Fachpublikationsreihe Behinderung · Inklusion · Entwicklung
This study, although not generalizable, builds up the literature on worker training needs in developing countries, and would be of benefit for speech-language pathologists and worker trainers. This paper aimed to investigate the training needs of Malaysian workers in relation to people with communic...ation disability. The primary aim was to investigate common self-perceived training needs in relation to communication disability and to find how important these needs are to workers. A secondary aim was to explore the relationship between selected worker variables and training needs.
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This study explored family adjustment and access to rehabilitative services for children with Down syndrome, between 0-5 years of age, in the ecoculture of Petchaburi Province, Thailand.
One of the main limitations to accessing hearing aids is the lack of diagnostic and rehabilitative services, especially at primary and secondary levels of care. This is due to the small number of specialists in ear and hearing care, and to their poor territorial distribution which is more evident in... low- and middle-income countries
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Indicators are a representation of reality. They are just numbers on a piece of paper or on a computer screen, but they stand for something far greater – the success of your project. Indicators are usually defined in the context of project planning and show something about or give an indication of... progress towards realising the project goal, without being complete or comprehensive. Of course, there could be other representations of this reality, such as stories (Dart and Davies, 2003) or drawings (Feuerstein, 1986) or photographs (Tijm et al, 2011). However, indicators are a widely accepted way of representing what is being achieved in a programme or project.
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Guide pour les agents de réadaption de niveau intermédiare
A non-exhaustive reference list of organizations working with and for persons with disabilities world-wide.
LIGHT FOR THE WORLD is a European confederation of national development NGOs committed to saving eyesight, improving the quality of life and advocating for the rights of person with disabilities in the underprivileged regions of our world. The guidelines reflect both the ongoing developments within ...CBR during recent years and the strategic debates between CBR practitioners from around the world as to the very ideology behind CBR. The goal of the new CBR guidelines is to assist with the development of CBR practice in the many countries around the world where it is practiced.
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The Global Campaign Against Epilepsy “Out of the Shadows”
Key Recommendations for an Inclusive Urban Agenda
BMJ Global Health2020;5:e002014. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002014
Disability inclusive practices for strengthening comprehensive eye care