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  2. Disability and Rehabilitation - Wikipedia

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    Disability and Rehabilitation is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of disability and rehabilitation medicine, including practice and policy aspects of the rehabilitation process. [1] The journal is published by Taylor and Francis Group and the editor-in-chief is Dave Müller [2] (Suffolk New College).

  3. National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and ...

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    The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) is a United States governmental agency that provides leadership and support for a comprehensive program of research related to the rehabilitation of individuals with disabilities.

  4. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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    The History of the Americans with Disabilities Act: A Movement Perspective. Available online at the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund website; O'Brien, Ruth, ed. Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act. New York: Oxford, 2004. ISBN 0-19-515687-0; Pletcher, David and Ashlee Russeau-Pletcher.

  5. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on physical medicine and rehabilitation, including practice and policy aspects of the rehabilitation process. It was established in 2006 as an offshoot of Disability and Rehabilitation.

  6. Timeline of disability rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Disability rights advocates Patrisha Wright of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), and Evan Kemp Jr. (of the Disability Rights Center) led an intense lobbying and grassroots campaign that generated more than 40,000 cards and letters. After three years, the Reagan Administration abandoned its attempts to revoke or amend the ...

  7. Knowing how a disease affects one's functioning enables better planning of services, treatment, and rehabilitation for persons with long-term disabilities or chronic conditions. The current ICF creates a more integrative understanding of health forming a comprehensive profile of an individual instead of focusing on one's disease, illness, or ...

  8. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 - Wikipedia

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    Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Long title: An Act to replace the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, to extend and revise the authorization of grants to States for vocational rehabilitation services, with special emphasis on services to those with the most severe disabilities, to expand special Federal responsibilities and research and training programs with respect to individuals with disabilities ...

  9. World report on disability - Wikipedia

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    Disability disproportionately affects vulnerable populations (women, older people and those who are poor). Disability is very diverse, despite the stereotypical view of a disabled person as a wheelchair user. People with disabilities face barriers in accessing services (health, education, employment, and transport, among others).