Sociocultural influences on disability status in Puerto Rican children
Publication Date
September 2001
pp 1512-1523
This article describes culturally defined meanings of childhood function and disability in Puerto Rico to provide a context for the interpretation of test scores from the Spanish translation of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI). More than 600 Puerto Rican teachers, parents and caregivers of children with and without disabilities, and members of the general community participated in ethnographic interviews, which were designed to describe their beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge about childhood function and disability
Serial Title:
Physical Therapy : Journal of the American Physical Therapy Association
Serial Part:
Volume 81 . Number 9
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Keywords
Disability and social diversity [2]; persons with disabilities [3]; Inclusion [4]; socio-cultural [5]; Research [6]; Cross-cutting [7]; attitudinal barriers [8]; society and social change [9]; disability studies [10]
Regional Focus
Pan American (PAHO) [11]
Country focus
Puerto Rico [12]
Language
English [13]
Type of material
text [14]
