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Miles, M. – 1985
The paper examines the Work Health Organization's (WHO) community based rehabilitation (CBR) scheme currently being field tested in a number of countries and examines also the usefulness of the WHO/CBR manual "Training Disabled People in the Community." The development of alternative CBR schemes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America since…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Resources, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMiles, M. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1998
Reviews the history of services for people with mental disabilities in Pakistan, with emphasis on the development of outreach projects based on principles of community-based rehabilitation. Strategies are suggested that build on existing realities and strengths of families and communities. Promising examples from Bangladesh are cited. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textMiles, M. – 1996
This paper reviews research and evaluates information gathered on disabilities and service development in South Asia, especially India and Pakistan. The concept of "community-based rehabilitation" (CBR), which stresses the need for rehabilitation efforts rooted in the context of local cultural concepts, is discussed. The paper emphasizes…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cultural Influences, Cultural Traits, Delivery Systems
Miles, M. – 1993
This report focuses on a project in Afghanistan that coordinates the efforts of several agencies to develop community-directed disability, rehabilitation, and education services. The program stresses community mobilization aided by skills transfer from expatriate specialists, and includes physical therapy, prosthetics, living skills and mobility…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Daily Living Skills, Delivery Systems
Miles, M. – 1998
This address begins with a study of self-help by a Mozambican in the 1590s and then imagines a period between the years 2050 to 2150, during which women caring for people with disabilities abolish the need for specialist educational, medical and social services, by multiplying and democratizing the necessary knowledge, skills and design to make…
Descriptors: Adults, African History, Children, Community Programs
Miles, M. – 1991
This work reports upon a 1990 questionnaire survey of 16 Pakistani leaders in the field of mental handicap. Results are compared with those of a similar survey conducted in 1982. Most respondents reported that services in this field have increased both in quantity and quality. Differing views were expressed concerning: ease or difficulty of…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Agencies, Attitudes, Community Programs
