Science and technology policy: is disability a missing factor?
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K D Seelman
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Physical rehabilitation and violence: initiatives of the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
The paper presents an analysis of violence-related data from the National Spinal Cord Injury Database within the context of violence-related projects of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. The National Spinal Cord Injury Database is managed by the Spain Rehabilitation Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which is one of 13 Model Spinal Cord Injury Care System centers funded under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. There are 1,732 cases of spinal cord injury (SCI) due to violence enrolled in the database. This enrollment provides a longitudinal sample, an analysis of which shows that African American individuals and persons of Hispanic origin represent an increasing percentage of new cases, and that an increasing percentage of individuals within these populations is incurring SCI as a result of violence.
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Assistive technology policy: a road to independence for individuals with disabilities.
This article identifies and analyzes equity issues in assistive technology policy for adults with disabilities in the United States and makes recommendations for further research and advocacy. The following equity issues are considered: (a) who has access to assistive technology, (b) which technology is available, (c) who decides on the technology, and (d) who controls or determines the allocation of assistive technology. The discussion considers the role of stereotyping and discrimination in policy-making and how these affect equity. There is a need to rethink the concepts of normal and abnormal, and to reformulate policy more on the basis of the values of empowerment, independence, and community integration.
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