Introduction to Recreation Services for People with Disabilities

Introduction to Recreation Services for People with Disabilities
Author: Charles C. Bullock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1997
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

In describing the full range of recreation services for people with disabilities, whether in treatment-oriented recreation therapy, goal-oriented special recreation, or activity-oriented inclusive recreation, this text concentrates on the needs of the person with the disability.

Community-based Rehabilitation

Community-based Rehabilitation
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher:
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2010
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789241548052

Volume numbers determined from Scope of the guidelines, p. 12-13.

Developing Recreation Skills in Persons with Learning Disabilties

Developing Recreation Skills in Persons with Learning Disabilties
Author: Lorraine C. Peniston
Publisher: Sagamore Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Contents: An Introduction; Learning Disabilities; Awareness; Leisure; Delivery of Recreation Programs to Persons with Learning Disabilities; Specific Accommodation and Modifications of Recreation Activities for Persons with Learning Disabilities; Resources; Appendices.

Introduction to Recreation Services for People with Disabilities

Introduction to Recreation Services for People with Disabilities
Author: Charles C. Bullock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2017
Genre: People with disabilities
ISBN: 9781571678089

"Introduction to Recreation Services for People With Disabilities continues to reflect a broad-based explanation of the role of practitioners in the interrelated fields of therapeutic recreation, inclusive recreation, and special recreation. This fourth edition represents a major revision, including the most current research and thinking about the interdisciplinary fields of recreation and disability studies. This book is intended to be an introductory text for all students in parks and recreation/leisure studies departments."--Provided by publisher.

Activities With Developmentally Disabled Elderly and Older Adults

Activities With Developmentally Disabled Elderly and Older Adults
Author: M Jean Keller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113658109X

Learn how to effectively plan and deliver activities for the growing number of older people with developmental disabilities. Activities With Developmentally Disabled Elderly and Older Adults is an innovative new book that aims to stimulate interest and continued support for recreation program development and implementation among developmental disability and aging service systems. Particularly useful for human service professionals working in the areas of developmental disabilities and aging, this practical volume will also be of interest to researchers, educators, and students interested in recreation services with older adults who are developmentally disabled. The older adult population with developmental disabilities (DD) continues to grow rapidly, yet little is known about their needs and interests. In this book a wide variety of authors share innovative and creative strategies for programming activities with older adults with DD. They focus on diverse issues, services, and programs from researchers, educators, and practitioners, represented varied disciplines. Each chapter demonstrates the diversity that makes serving a growing number of older individuals with DD both challenging and rewarding. Among the wealth of information you will find in Activities With Developmentally Disabled Elderly and Older Adults are discussions on the characteristics of this population and challenge activity professionals to seek innovative program strategies to appropriately serve individuals with DD companionship/friendship, physical functioning, and retirement adjustment issues that confront older adults who have lived with lifelong disabling conditions how a continuum of recreational activities is needed to provide meaningful experiences to elders with developmental disabilities how to design therapeutic recreation programs survey instruments that can be used to gain information about the needs of elderly persons with DD how to find specific programs and services that are age appropriate and foster creative expression and positive self-esteem a rationale for the development of integrated recreation programs

Disability is Natural

Disability is Natural
Author: Kathie Snow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2001
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

In this user-friendly book, parents learn revolutionary common sense techniques for raising successful children with disabilities. When we recognize that disability is a natural part of the human experience, new attitudes lead to new actions for successful lives at home, in school and in communities. When parents replace today's conventional wisdom with the common sense values and creative thinking detailed in this book, all children with disabilities (regardless of age or type of disability) can live the life of their dreams. Readers will learn how to define a child by his or her assets - instead of a disability-related "problem," and how to create new and improved partnerships with educators, health care professionals, family and friends

Community Health Nursing

Community Health Nursing
Author: Karen Saucier Lundy
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 1172
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780763717865

Historically, community health nursing has responded to the changing health care needs of the community and continues to meet those needs in a variety of diverse roles and settings. Community Health Nursing: Caring for the Public's Health, Second Edition reflects this response and is representative of what communities signify in the United States--a unified society made up of many different populations and unique health perspectives. This text provides an emphasis on population-based nursing directed toward health promotion and primary prevention in the community. It is both community-based and community-focused, reflecting the current dynamics of the health care system. The Second Edition contains new chapters on disaster nursing and community collaborations during emergencies. The chapters covering Family health, ethics, mental health, and pediatric nursing have all been significantly revised and updated.

Supporting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Recreation

Supporting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Recreation
Author: Phyllis Coyne
Publisher: Sagamore Publishing
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This book was written to assist recreation service providers, parents and families, to understand strategies for supporting individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in community and school recreation programs. It has extensive practical advice on programs, with specific advice for teachers, recreation service providers, Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialists, physical education teachers, parents and everyone else who work with people with ASD.

Adults With Disabilities

Adults With Disabilities
Author: Paul Retish
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 1999-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135688540

Provides the reader with an insight into the school, personal/social, & community lives of those with disabilites. A guide to altering the living culture to improve programs for the disabled. For parents & employers, medical personnel & others.