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Session: Health Care and Personal Assistance Services
4121.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Health Care and Personal Assistance Services
Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the role of participatory action research in studying the effects of personal assistance services for people with disabilities. 2. Describe the communication needs of individuals who are deaf and heard of hearing. 3. Identify the common barriers of accessing health care and social services among low income adults with physical disabilities.
Moderator(s):Chris Kochtitzky, MSP
12:30 PMImpact of Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Services for People with Disabilities on Their Participation in Major Life Activities  [ Recorded presentation ]
David B. Gray, PhD, Holly H. Hollingsworth, PhD, Kerri A. Morgan, MSOT OTR/L
12:50 PMPersonal assistance services in the workplace: Promising practices  [ Recorded presentation ]
Lewis Kraus, MPH, MCP, Susan Stoddard, PhD, Sita Misra, PhD, Louis Orslene, MSW, MPIA
1:10 PMEffective communication with deaf and hard of hearing patients: Assessment of hospital policies, procedures and needs
Firoozeh Molaparast Vali, PhD, Annette Lombardo, MPH
1:30 PMBarriers to needed health care and social services among low income adults with physical disabilities  [ Recorded presentation ]
Matthew Kehn, BA, Pei-Shu Ho, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Disability Forum

The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA