Session: Community Accessibility--Developing and Using New Measures
3269.0: Monday, November 17, 2003: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Community Accessibility--Developing and Using New Measures
This session provides presentations on new measures being developed to assess community accessibility, and demonstrates the implementation of these measures.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Corinne E Kirchner, PhD
2:30 PMNew Measures for Assessing the Social Receptivity of Communities toward People with Mobility Limitations
John C. Bricout, PhD, Holly Hollingsworth, PhD, Michael David Scheller, PhD, David B. Gray, PhD
2:45 PMAssessing receptivity for people with mobility limitations in four different sized communities
Elaine Jurkowski, PhD, Kathleen Deery, PhD, Hiroko Arikawa, PhD, Kerri Morgan, MS OTR/L, David B. Gray, PhD
3:00 PMEveryday environmental barriers: A look at the effectiveness of simple solutions
Melissa Sendroy Terrill, BA, CA Brooks, MSHA, Gale Whiteneck, PhD
3:15 PMValidation of instruments measuring fitness and recreation environments for persons with disabilities
Barth Riley, PhD, James Rimmer, PhD, Edward Wang, PhD, Amy Rauworth, MS
3:30 PMAccessibility of Fitness Environments for People with Disabilities
James H. Rimmer, PhD, Edward Wang, PhD, Barth Riley, PhD, Amy Rauworth, MS
3:45 PMDevelopment of the community Health Environment Checklist
Susan Stark, PhD, Holly Hollingsworth, PhD, Kerri Morgan, MS OTR/L, David B. Gray, PhD
Organized by:Disability Forum
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA