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Workshop on Disability in America:

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Publication Year:2006

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Front Matter	i-xvi
Introduction	1-3	(skim)
Summary of Workshop Presentations and Discussions	4-38	(skim)
Appendix A Workshop Agenda and Participants	39-49	(skim)
Appendix B Conceptual Models of Disability: Past, Present, and Future--Gale Whiteneck	50-66	(skim)
Appendix C Defining and Classifying Disability in Children--Rune J. Simeonsson	67-87	(skim)
Appendix D How Does the Environment Influence Disability? Examining the Evidence--Julie J. Keysor	88-100	(skim)
Appendix E Late-Life Disability Trends: An Overview of Current Evidence--Vicki A. Freedman	101-112	(skim)
Appendix F Chronic Disease and Trends in Severe Disability in Working-Age Populations--Jay Bhattacharya, Kavita Choudhry, and Darius Lakdawalla	113-142	(skim)
Appendix G Trends in Disability in Early Life--Ruth E. K. Stein	143-156	(skim)
Appendix H Aspects of Disability Across the Life Span: Risk Factors for Disability in Late Life--Jack M. Guralnik	157-165	(skim)
Appendix I Health Care Transition of Adolescents and Young Adults with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs: New Perspectives--John Reiss and Robert Gibson	166-184	(skim)
Appendix J Secondary Conditions and Disability--Margaret A. Turk	185-193	(skim)
Appendix K A User s Perspective on Midlife (Ages 18 to 65) Aging with Disability--June Isaacson Kailes	194-204	(skim)
Appendix L Impact of Exercise on Targeted Secondary Conditions--James H. Rimmer and Swati S. Shenoy	205-221	(skim)
Appendix M Secondary Conditions with Spinal Cord Injury--William A. Bauman	222-233	(skim)
Appendix N Depression as a Secondary Condition in People with Disabilities-Bryan Kemp	234-250	(skim)
Appendix O Promoting Health and Preventing Secondary Conditions Among Adults with Developmental Disabilities--Tom Seekins, Meg Traci, Donna Bainbridge, Kathy Humphries, Nancy Cunningham, Rod Brod, and James Sherman	251-264	(skim)
Appendix P Biographical Sketches of Workshop Committee and Workshop Presenters	265-276	(skim)

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