Disability Data Collection in Community-based Rehabilitation

Community-based resource building and data collection

The paper describes our work on participatory and community-based resource collection for the Sami language. This includes community events where participants wrote new Sami Wikipedia articles and took part in speech data collection by reading aloud Sami Wikipedia articles and discussing freely in group conversations. The aim was to increase the number of Sami Wikipedia articles and thereby str...

Mental Retardation, Poverty and Community Based Rehabilitation

A person with moderate mental retardation would, in a western country, be "diagnosed" early on in life. Consequently, such a child is likely to be sent for special education. Given the high level of job requirements, such a person is unlikely to be employed in the open market later in life. Mental retardation is one of the most frequent disabilities in most studies, mental retardation is found ...

Community Participation in Community-based Rehabilitation Programmes

Central to the community-based rehabilitation (CBR) approach is the concept of community participation. While many projects are based on the CBR approach, it is not evident how many CBR projects indeed use and measure community participation. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively analyse the extent of evaluation of community participation in CBR studies evaluated over the last thirty y...

A Web-Based System from Data Collection and Community Building

Your Psyche (http://www.yourpsyche.org) is a new webbased data collection system. This system was developed to take advantage of modern Internet technologies to create an engaging and rewarding experience for participants. Key to this effort is the development of a sophisticated and powerful feedback system that allows participants to see and understand the results of studies they have particip...

Is Community-based Work Compatible with Data Collection?