This section provides some literature about the assessment of the impact of disabling conditions on the lives and careers of people with disabilities.
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Adult Disability Assessment Tool information (Australia, 2006) — ADAT is used to measure the level of care needed by an adult. It determines a care recipient’s level of disability and need for assistance with daily living as well as the person’s emotional state, behaviour and capacity to interpret and understand information. The ADAT is available at http://www.workingcarers.org.au/images/stories/ADAT.pdf
A National Measure of. Functional Dependency for Home and. Community Care. Services in Australia -2001 — reports the results of a field test of the recommended instruments conducted across a sample of HACC providers in March-April 2001; and · presents a set of recommendations on policy and implementation issues associated with the recommended dependency instruments.
CONTRIBUTING TO SINGLE SHARED ASSESSMENT PRACTICE GUIDE -2002 — This practice guide explains the contribution various groups of staff in health, housing and social care may make to single shared assessment. This can be as a lead assessor, a specialist contributor, or an informed contributor such as a service provider.
DEFINING IMPAIRMENT AND DISABILITY: ISSUES AT STAKE Mike Oliver 1996 Chapter 3 (in 'Exploring the Divide') — s the social model of disability has been the foundation upon which disabled people have chosen to organise themselves collectively... , in recent years the social model has come under increasing scrutiny both from disabled people and from others working in the field of chronic illness.
Disability Assessment (document by Duncan Blackman) - 2006 — Miscellaneous resources
Evaluation of the Adult Disability Assessment Tool and Child Disability Assessment Tool — This evaluation draws attention to inconsistencies in structure and measurement mechanisms of the assessment tools and in how they are interpreted by carers, medical practitioners and health professionals.
Global Measures of Disability Statistics Canada's experience so far... -2002 — Statistics Canada has been involved in surveying persons with disabilities since the early 1980’s when a special parliamentary committee was formed to study issues surrounding this population.... Following early trials at finding a definition of disability, Statistics Canada chose to adopt the World Health Organization’s 1980 model. This definition was operationalized through the use of twenty-five questions on Activities of Daily Living (ADL’s) developed by the OECD, used to screen respondents with disabilities.
Gross Motor Function Classification System for Cerebral Palsy -1997 — based on self-initiated movement with particular emphasis on sitting (truncal control) and walking.
GUIDANCE ON SINGLE SHARED ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY CARE NEEDS Scottish Executive -2001 — The Joint Future Group recommended the concept of a Single, Shared Assessment which would be person-centred, more streamlined, led by a single professional, with other specialist involvement as appropriate, and the results would be acceptable to all professionals in social work, health and housing.
ICF Checklist -World Health Organization -2003 — The ICF Checklist is a practical tool to elicit and record information on the functioning and disability of an individual.
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health -2001 — This volume contains the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, known as ICF. The overall aim of the ICF classification is to provide a unified and standard language and framework for the description of health and health-related states.
Lessons Learned from Evaluation of Disability Policy and Programs (1999) — Downloads pdf. This report summarizes lessons learned about what works or does not work in various disability policy and program areas. It is based on a review of evaluation information from a variety of sources in Canada and several other jurisdictions.
Ohio Developmental Disability Profile (ODDP)
The Disability Archive UK - titles (useful resources) — See: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/index.html Centre for Disability Studies http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/index.htm
The Disability Measurement Matrix (PPT) — Presentation See the text at http://www.ppt2txt.com/r/38137eb6/
The nature and impact of caring for family members with a disability in Australia -Research report No. 16, 2008 — The aims of this report are to: examine the effect of caring on family and social relationships; document the social, emotional, physical and financial impact on families of caring for a person with a disability; examine the effect of caring on labour force status.
The Social Model of Disability: a different way of thinking -UK-2004 — An overview of Impairment and Disabling Barriers
The social model of disability: an outdated ideology? 2002 — The papers explore the background to British academic and political debates over the social model, and argue that the time has come to move beyond this position.
Towards a Common Language for Functioning, Disability and Health: ICF The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health - 2002 — The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, known more commonly as ICF, provides a standard language and framework for the description of health and health-related states.
Towards a National. Measure of Functional. Dependency for Home and Community Care. Services in Australia: Stage 1 report of the HACC dependency data — , this Stage 1 report: · reviews the suitability of existing instruments and scales to measure the dependency levels of the HACC target group
Washington Group on Disability Statistics First Meeting 2002 — Representatives of national statistical agencies and international organizations of people with disabilities participated in 3 days of sessions directed toward developing agreement on the nature of a global measure of disability to be recommended for use in censuses and surveys in the world community. site includes Papers and Presentations. One of interest is Exploring the Impact of Assistive Device Use on Disability Measurement http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ppt/citygroup/meeting1/madans_rasch_altman.ppt
Washington Group Position Paper Proposed Purpose of an Internationally Comparable General Disability Measure 2004 — the importance of identifying the purposes of general disability measures, and the need to match purpose with measurement concept
Work Capability Assessment Internal Review -2009, UK — assessment to determine entitlement, the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). The WCA is crucial in ensuring that individuals are correctly identified for benefit and provided with the appropriate level of support.