Enabling Environments -

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Résumé :
This collection focuses on methods for measuring the role of the physical environment in the disablement process and the limitations of current theory, knowledge, and research in the field. Linking the chapters is a new paradigm of research on accessibility, which emphasizes that disability is both a social and an individual process and is consistent with recent developments in a disability rights, rehabilitation practice, and environmental design.

Sommaire:
I. Theory.- 1. Theory as a Basis for Research on Enabling Environments.- 2. Research Implications of Universal Design.- 3. Space Requirements for Accessibility: Cross-Cultural Comparisons.- II. Reliability and Validity.- 4. The Enabler Applied to Occupational Therapy: Reliability of a Usability Rating Scale.- 5. Measuring the Influences of Physical Environments on the Behaviors of People with Impairments.- 6. Measuring Constraints to Inhabitant Activities.- 7. Assessing Special Care Units for Dementia: The Professional Environmental Assessment Protocol.- 8. Using Environmental Simulation to Test the Validity of Code Requirements.- III. New Directions in Research Methods.- 9. A Day's Journey Through life(c): An Assessment Game.- 10. Detection and Discrimination of Tactile Warning Signals in Field Conditions.- 11. Stigma and Architecture.- 12. Evaluating Models and Measures of Environmental Performance.- IV. Measurment in Practice.- 13. Computer Simulation of Cane Techniques Used by People with Visual Impairments for Accessibility Anaylsis.- 14. Evaluating Accessibility Through Computer-Aided Design: A Software Model.- 15. Wayfinding Performance by People with Visual Impairments.- 16. Postoccupancy Evaluation of Universally Accessible Multi-Family Housing Units.- 17. Selecting Person-Environment Assessment.