TY - JOUR
T1 - Community integration of people with traumatic brain injury
T2 - Introduction
AU - Gordon, Wayne A.
N1 - Funding Information:
THE ARTICLES INCLUDED IN this supplement to the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation are based on presentations that were given at the State of the Science conference sponsored by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Community Integration of Individuals with TBI (with funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research [NIDRR]) and held in April 2002, at George Washington University.
Funding Information:
Supported by the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US Department of Education (grant no. H133B980013).
PY - 2004/4
Y1 - 2004/4
N2 - Gordon WA. Community integration of people with traumatic brain injury: introduction. 2004;85(4 Suppl 2):S1-2. This introduction discusses the philosophy of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Community Integration of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. This approach places the perspective, values, and preferences of the person with a disability at the center of our work. Seven of the 9 articles in the supplement are based on the research of the RRTC. The articles address the following: methods of implementing a research program within a Participatory Action Research framework, insider-outsider power relationships within measurement, a review of quality of life research on individuals with TBI, 2 articles summarizing research on depression, an evaluation of a method for identifying TBI in schoolchildren, a study of aging in people with TBI, an evaluation of an innovative community-based vocational rehabilitation program, and a description of findings from the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Registry and Follow-Up System.
AB - Gordon WA. Community integration of people with traumatic brain injury: introduction. 2004;85(4 Suppl 2):S1-2. This introduction discusses the philosophy of the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Community Integration of Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. This approach places the perspective, values, and preferences of the person with a disability at the center of our work. Seven of the 9 articles in the supplement are based on the research of the RRTC. The articles address the following: methods of implementing a research program within a Participatory Action Research framework, insider-outsider power relationships within measurement, a review of quality of life research on individuals with TBI, 2 articles summarizing research on depression, an evaluation of a method for identifying TBI in schoolchildren, a study of aging in people with TBI, an evaluation of an innovative community-based vocational rehabilitation program, and a description of findings from the Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Registry and Follow-Up System.
KW - Brain injuries
KW - Rehabilitation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3042831066&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.apmr.2003.08.118
DO - 10.1016/j.apmr.2003.08.118
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3042831066
SN - 0003-9993
VL - 85
SP - 1
EP - 2
JO - Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
JF - Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
IS - SUPPL. 2
ER -