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Publication Date
2018
A graduate student textbook offered in 39 chapters, each with different authors and subjects. Abstracts, test questions and citations are freely available on-line. Full text is charged for. The book surveys rehabilitation and vocational programs aiding persons with disabilities in remote and developing areas in the U.S. and abroad. Contributors discuss longstanding challenges to these communities, most notably economic and environmental obstacles and ongoing barriers to service delivery, as well as their resilience and strengths. Considerations are largely of the US but there is a chapter on each of Asia and Pacific region, Australasia, Canada, Mexico, India, Turkey, Colombia and the UK.
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Keywords
Cross-cutting; accessibility; Development/ Humanitarian; rural development; Disability and community; community; Disability and social diversity; persons with disabilities; Health; systems: service delivery; Inclusion; society and social change; Livelihoods; vocational training; Politics government and economics; economics; Rehabilitation; community-based rehabilitation; management (service delivery)
