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Charity chair pledges to track how cuts are affecting poverty levels - 10 Jan 2012
Tony Stoller, the new chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, is driven by a responsibility to side with people in poverty With all the main political parties hell-bent on refashioning the welfare state to reduce its spiralling costs, by siding with hardworking people (the deserving poor) and labelling anyone else as benefit scroungers (the undeserving), it is reassuring to learn that at least ...
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Obituary: Vic Finkelstein, 1938-2011 - 10 Jan 2012
Vic Finkelstein was a pioneering activist and academic whose work profoundly shaped and influenced the disability movement. Born in Johannesburg in 1938, and paralysed by a pole vaulting accident at the age of 16, he was imprisoned for his anti-apartheid activities in the 1960s.
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Vic Finkelstein, 1938-2011 - 10 Jan 2012
Vic Finkelstein was a pioneering activist and academic whose work profoundly shaped and influenced the disability movement. Born in Johannesburg in 1938, and paralysed by a pole vaulting accident at the age of 16, he was imprisoned for his anti-apartheid activities in the 1960s.
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WorkLink survives provincial funding shakeup - 10 Jan 2012
Come April, the big job board at WorkLink will still be layered with dozens of help-wanted ads, all offering hope of gainful employment
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Kessler Foundation and USC collaborate on clinical virtual reality for disability research - 10 Jan 2012
( Kessler Foundation ) Kessler Foundation and the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies will collaborate on clinical research projects applying virtual reality technology to cognitive and motor rehabilitation research in brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis. The goal, according to Kessler Foundation's VP John DeLuca, Ph.D., and USC's Dr ...
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Autologous mesenchymal stem cells for the treatment of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: an open-label phase ... - 9 Jan 2012
More than half of patients with multiple sclerosis have progressive disease characterised by accumulating disability. The absence of treatments for progressive multiple sclerosis represents a major unmet clinical need.
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Target, Nordstrom Praised for Ads With Ryan, a Child Model With Down Syndrome - 7 Jan 2012
Target and Nordstrom are receiving praise for their newest child model -- adorable six-year-old Ryan, who has floppy blonde hair and bright blue eyes, and who has Down syndrome.
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Prospective surveillance model emerges as standard of care for breast cancer treatment - 6 Jan 2012
( American Physical Therapy Association ) Early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer-related lymphedema by a physical therapist can significantly reduce costs and the need for intensive rehabilitation.
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Sponsored by - 21 Dec 2011
Targeted back pain care is “cheaper and better for patients”, BBC News has reported. The BBC says that a new model for assessing the severity of back pain has shown significant improvements compared with current methods, and could also save more than £30 per patient.
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New Jersey Independent Bookstore Honored as Role Model for Disability Employment and Training - 14 Dec 2011
MAPLEWOOD, N.J., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- [words] Bookstore in Maplewood, N.J., was recently recognized as a role model for Corporate America because of its initiative to help the disabled community, the largest and fastest growing minority segment today. [words] received...
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Additional Resources
Social Model of Disability - Living with Cerebral Palsy and or a ...
Social Model of Disability. Disability refers to the social effects of physical or mental impairment. This definition, known as the 'social model' of disability ...
The Medical and Social Model of Disability
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The social and medical model of disability — University of Leicester
There are a number of ‘models’ of disability which have been defined over the last few years. The two most frequently mentioned are the ‘social’ and the ...
Social model of disability: Facts, Discussion Forum, and ...
The social model of disability is a reaction to the dominant medical model of disability. which in itself is a Cartesian. functional analysis of the body as machine ...
Models of Disability
Here is information about the models of disability ... I thought it would be helpful if I explained the main models and give you my views on disability
Models of Disability — ETTAD - Welcome to the ETTAD web resource ...
There are 2 main models of disability: the Medical Model and the Social Model. The Medical Model. Under the Medical Model, disabled people are defined by their ...
Models of disability: implications for the counseling profession ...
Disability is a natural part of human existence and is growing more common as a larger proportion of the U.S. population experiences some type...
Social model of disability - Psychology Wiki
The social model of disability recognises that while some people have physical or psychological differences these anomalies do not affect the person behind the ...
Challenges to the Biomedical Model of Disability Julie Smart, Ph.D ...
(Reproduced with permission from Advances in Medical Psychotherapy & Psychodiagnosis, Volume 12, 2006-2007. ) Challenges to the Biomedical Model of Disability Julie ...
Models of Disability | International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation
Models of Disability. Carmelo Masala Department of Psychology State University of Cagliari Via s Mirrionis, 1 09100 Italy, Europe Email address: masala@unica.it
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