Content validity of a home-based person-environment interaction assessment tool for visually impaired adults
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Content validity of a home-based person-environment interaction assessment tool for visually impaired adults.
Home-based assessments require in-depth analyses of daily living difficulties. No assessment tool that has been validated with visually impaired adult subjects has allowed such analysis. This research adapted a home-based person-environment interaction assessment tool designed for persons who are visually impaired. The Model of Competence, an explanatory model of the person-environment relation...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0748-7711
DOI: 10.1682/jrrd.2007.10.0158