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Enabling environments :

1461548411

9781461548416

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Enabling environments :

[Book]

measuring the impact of environment on disability and rehabilitation

edited by Edward Steinfeld and G. Scott Danford.

New York

Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers

[1999] ©1999

(xvi, 418 pages) : illustrations

Plenum series in rehabilitation and health.

Theory as a basis for research on enabling environments / Edward Steinfeld and G. Scott Danford --;Research implications of universal design / Bettye Rose Connell and Jon A. Sanford --;Space requirements for accessibility : cross-cultural comparisons / Theo J.M. van der Voordt --;"The enabler" applied to occupational therapy : reliability of a usability rating scale / Susanne Iwarsson and Åke Isacsson --;Measuring the influences of physical environments on the behaviors of people with impairments / G. Scott Danford and Edward Steinfeld --;Measuring constraints to inhabitant activities / David B. Lantrip --;Assessing special care units for dementia : the Professional environmental assessment protocol / Carolyn Norris-Baker, Gerald D. Weisman, M. Powell Lawton, Philip Sloane, and Migette Kaup --;Using environmental simulation to test the validity of code requirements / Jon A. Sanford and Mary Beth Megrew --;A day's journey through Life : an assessment game / Ron Sekulski, Louise Jones and Leon A. Pastalan --;Detection and discrimination of tactile warning signals in field conditions / Edward Steinfeld and Gary Richmond --;Stigma and architecture / Julia W. Robinson and Travis Thompson --;Evaluating models and measures of environmental performance / David B. Lantrip --;Computer simulation of cane techniques used by people with visual impairments for accessibility analysis / Bruce B. Blasch, William R. De L'Aune, and Franklyn K. Coombs --;Evaluating accessibility through computer-aided design : a software model / Margaret Haley and Julio Bermudez --;Wayfinding performance by people with visual impairments / Gail Finkel --;Postoccupancy evaluation of universally accessible multifamily housing units / Patricia L. Falta --;Selecting person-environment assessment / Barbara Acheson Cooper, Lori Letts, Patricia Rigby, Mary Law, Debra Stewart, and Susan Strong.

TItis volume is the first effort to compile representative work in the emerging research area on the relationship of disability and physical environment since Barrier-Free Environments, edited by Michael Bednar, was published in 1977.

Barrier-free design -- United States.

Dwellings -- Barrier-free design -- United States.

People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- United States.

edited by Edward Steinfeld and G. Scott Danford.

Edward Steinfeld

G Scott Danford

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