SIDUR: development of an information system, using controlled vocabulary designed to the characterization and sample of population with and without disability, attended by Rehabilitation programs, University of Rosario

Introduction: the statistical record used in the Field Academic Programs (PAC for it’s initials in Spanish) of Rehabilitation denotes generalities in the data conceptualization, which complicates the reliable guidance in making decisions and provides a low support for research in rehabilitation and disability. In response, the Research Group in Rehabilitation and Social Integration of Persons with Disabilities has worked on the creation of a registry to characterize the population seen by Rehabilitation PAC. This registry includes the use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) of the WHO. Methodology: the proposed methodology includes two phases: the first one is a descriptive study and the second one involves performing methodology Methontology, which integrates the identification and development of ontology knowledge. This article contextualizes the progress made in the second phase. Results: the development of the registry in 2008, as an information system, included documentary review and the analysis of possible use scenarios to help guide the design and development of the SIDUR system. The system uses the ICF given that it is a terminology standardization that allows the reduction of ambiguity and that makes easier the transformation of health facts into data translatable to information systems. The record raises three categories and a total of 129 variables Conclusions: SIDUR facilitates accessibility to accurate and updated information, useful for decision making and research.

Evaluation of effectiveness of the project ‘Caring caregivers of persons in disability situation’. Bogotá - second semester of 2007

The present paper presents the results of a transversal descriptive study which intended to estimate the contribution of the project “Caring for those who take care of people with disabilities” in the areas of: strength of personal and group competences, self care, life project, dexterity in the care process of people with disabilities, and communitarian auto management; that was implemented in 20 urban areas with caregivers of the city of Bogota in the year 2007. The study allowed the nresearches to acknowledge the little change perception that caregivers had in terms of self care, however, the caregivers perceived change in the four areas, although this were not statistically significant in comparison with the general population. There were only significant changes in the communitarian auto management area in 30% of the population. As a result, it is proposed that more extensive, continuous, and sustainable processes are implemented and that this process arises from contention spaces which can be created with the caregivers, from which they can be motivated to participate in other ´processes of collective and individual changes. Also there’s a need to rely on facilitators (professionals and change agents) who have stronger competences on the how to be and the how to interact competences, because there’s a need to manage the psychosocial components in this group of people. Also, we must make organizational processes and the social networks stronger, this is: collective actions are required, because disability is a social fact, and so, the individual issues are just a moment in the process of inclusion of the person with disability, his family and caregiver.

Disability and Identity Processes

This article presents a reflection about the Disability like a human phenomenon, which needs not only new definitions if not a criticism point of view as a Concept, with the end of indicate representations forms not only for people with disabilities if not for the citizens in general. Considers discourses that identify arguments from social sciences, appearing the Disability like a differentiate condition between human beings, mainly for an exclusion process that announce social behaviors in relations with the persons with disabilities.

Conductas de dolor y discapacidad en migra??as y cefaleas tensionales : adaptaci??n espa??ola del Pain Behavior Questionaire (PBQ) y del Headache Disability Inventory (HDI)

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Applications of the World Health Organization (WHO) ICE and ICE-CY to communication disability. 'Aplicación de la ICF y la ICF-CY desarrolladas por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) para el estudio de los trastornos de la comunicación'.

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The bilingualism reader.

Está concebido como un texto para introducir a los estudiantes de lingüística, psicología y educación en el estudio del bilingüismo. En este texto, que trata de ser integrador, el tema es tratado desde distintos puntos de vista, a la luz de las más recientes investigaciones y con un estudio crítico de los métodos de investigación.

From reader to reading teacher : issues and strategies for second language classrooms.

Se utiliza en cursos de introducción a la enseñanza de la lectura en una segunda lengua y esta dirigido a profesores tanto principiantes, que encuentran información práctica sobre métodos, problemas y estrategias, como experimentados, a los que proporciona métodos más eficaces y un plan de estudios más flexible. El texto analiza la naturaleza de la lectura y las estrategias personales ante ella, así como, los factores que influyen en la lectura en una lengua materna y la realizada en un segundo idioma. Los profesores aprenden a seleccionar las actividades de lectura más apropiadas y a planificar las lecciones más eficaces para sus alumnos.

La inclusión social y laboral de las personas con discapacidad intelectual mediante los programas de empleo con apoyo : un reto para la Orientación. 'Social and labour inclusion of people with intellectual disability through supported employment programs : a challenge for guidance'.

Resumen tomado de la publicación. Con el apoyo económico del departamento MIDE de la UNED

Development and validation of a scale to identify attitudes towards disability in Higher Education

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Els ???Disability Studies??? i el gir hermen??utic de la discapacitat

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Analysis of the consistency of alphabet symbol/speech sound correspondence in three basal reader series

This paper reviews a study to analyze the number of times alphabet symbols occur in three commonly used basal reader series.

Patient perception of disability following acoustic (vestibular) schwannoma removal via gamma knife and microsurgical techniques

This study evaluates patient's short and long-term balance function after microsurgical tumor removal and gamma knife radiosurgery using an unvalidated qualitative questionnaire and the Dizziness Handicap Inventory.