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Item A comparison of the personality adjustment of overtly and covertly disabled children(Texas Tech University, 1958-08) Pierson, Jerome SandersNot availableItem A study of attitudes toward the disabled using the ATDP and a semantic differential with a control for social desirability(Texas Tech University, 1966-05) Moline, John GilbertThe basic purpose of this study is to investigate attitudes toward disabled persons, A new technique for measuring these attitudes is to be introduced. In addition, consideration will be given to the social desirability response set as it affects the measurement of attitudes toward the handicapped. The study will be limited to a population differentiated on the basis of the amount of contact had with the disabled.Item An analysis of long-term care(Texas Tech University, 2003-08) Castro, Kristina J.Long-term care of the elderly has been an important issue for many years. Some of the concerns include analyzing the factors attributing to disabiUty in older age, analyzing the quaUty of care, and investigating different scenarios of care. Some research has been targeted at investigating the social, demographic, and behavioral effects that contribute to the emotional, physical, and cognhive state of the elderly person. Epidemiological and demographic studies have been conducted to understand the origins, risk factors, incidences and prevalence of disease and disabilities among the elderly population (Butler 1994). Long-term care services are those health and social services needed by the disabled and elderly populations. These services have typically been available in nursing homes or hospitals, but recently research has been investigating the effectiveness of offering these services from the community. Community-based long-term care consists of expanded community services including nursing services, home-health aides, personal care services, and housekeeping. Some community-based services also include the use of a case management system in order to better faciUtate long-term care clients with more accurate care and services. The U.S. elderly population (especially those over the age of 85) is predicted to grow, which means that the demand for nursing home beds and public expenditures for long-term care will be increasing. One hope for controlling this increase is to provide community care for the frail elderly with the intent of reducing institutionalization at a facility such as a nursing home (Greene, Lovely, and Ondrich 1992). The objective is to keep those in need of long-term care in their homes and living independently for as long as possible.Item An Analysis of Selected Characteristics of Consumer Behavior of Physically Disabled and of Nondisabled Homemakers(Texas Tech University, 1971-08) Coulter, Kyle Jane CagleNot Available.Item An analysis of typewriting as a rehabilitative aid for certain physically handicapped persons(Texas Tech University, 1966-05) Padgett, Elizabeth Ann SmithNot availableItem Disability policy in the U. S. : current challenges and future opportunities(2014-08) Woodard, Taylor Connor; Warner, David C.; Hough, CatherineNearly a quarter of a century after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), people with disabilities remain severely under-employed. All the while, they command a disproportionate share of public monies through Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). This report seeks to contribute to the conversation on current disability policy, as well as offer short-, mid-, and long-term solutions. The document opens with a history of the Social Security Administration (SSA), the federal agency responsible for setting national disability policy. This is followed by a discussion of SSA’s primary categories of client support: health care and employment initiatives. The health section details the medical coverage attached to both SSDI and SSI, with a particular focus on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Next is a review of work incentives offered to SSDI/SSI beneficiaries. Concluding this chapter is an investigation of the causes of under-employment that continue to plague the disabled circle, in spite of these many interventions. The study continues by exploring various issues affecting today’s U.S. disability policy. These include both exogenous and endogenous factors, including the growth of SSDI and SSI; the structural issues inherent to the current paradigm, as well as a number of disincentives to employment. The analysis then turns to disability policy in the international community. Of particular interest are the experiences of Sweden and the Netherlands as they established fiscally sound policy while assisting the nation’s disabled. From these case studies emerge several lessons pertinent to the U.S. This chapter closes with a thorough analysis of these European nations’ responses to their ever-growing disability programs, and the implications for disability policy makers and advocates. Concluding the report are several recommendations that can guide policy makers and advocates as they strive to place the disability community on the path to self-sufficiency. Most relevant and promising to the U.S. are the passage of the ABLE Act, instituting a national Medicaid Buy-In, and establishing a central disability agency. With successful implementation of these reforms, American with disabilities can potentially finally realize what the ADA promised 25 years ago.Item Factors related to the employment of handicapped students in Ector County Independent School District(Texas Tech University, 1976-05) Lewis, Judy HaleyThe purpose of the study was to identify any variable or combination of variables that relate significantly to employability of handicapped graduates of the Ector County ISD, in order to provide information to school officials who could then plan a more meaningful educational experience for handicapped students leading to future economic self-sufficiency as adults. Furthermore, the results of the study could provide additional information helpful in identifying strengths and weaknesses of the existing program in terms of study content or the job placement phase of the program. Third, the results could identify a need for the establishment, consolidation, and/or limitations of future occupational training opportunities in a local setting.Item Microcomputer applications for the handicapped: pre-computer assessment(Texas Tech University, 1989-05) Jacobson, Deann EliseMicrocomputer-based augmentative communication systems often include a switch as the human-computer interface. This study investigated the feasibility of operationalizing efficiency, consistency, and reliability of svdtch activation response latency measures in order to objectively choose the best of three switches. Five subjects were assessed by a registered occupational therapist to determine: (1) optimum position in relation to the computer monitor and (2) three possible switches for each subject's use. Data gathered from the computer assessment were used to determine mean switch activation latency for each switch, standard deviation of switch activation latency for each switch, and reliability between test days with each switch. Results revealed that one switch resulted in significantly different mean switch activation latencies and standard deviations of the switch activation latencies for three of the five subjects. A rationale for these results is proposed and discussed.Item Students with visual impairments' perceptions of the accessibility of the Internet(Texas Tech University, 2003-05) Siew, Lai KeunThe Internet has a tremendous potential to improve the lives and increase the independence and confidence of students with visual impairments. In the last ten years, federal and state legislation requires that information technology be accessible to people with disabilities. The provision of assistive technology (AT) is essential to the people with disabilities' full participation in advanced information technologies. Furthermore, many organizations have formulated different accessibility standards and guidelines that help authors and designers make their Internet documents accessible to the broadest possible audience, especially for people with visual impairments, because they are the user group that currently has the most difficulty interacting with Web content. However, recent studies showed that advanced information technology and communications networks are not really available, affordable or accessible to people with visual impairments. Most of the early studies focused on the accessibility of the computer and AT, but failed to take into consideration the accessibility of the Internet. Additionally, most of these studies were more interested in people with disabilities. A paucity of research is concerned with the secondary school students with visual impairments. This leaves a gap between what legislation requires and what is happening to students with visual impairments today. This study is devised to examine more closely secondary school students with visual impairments' perceptions of the accessibility of the Internet. This study investigated the following research questions: (1) To what extent are students with visual impairments using the Internet now? (2) What are the most prominent barriers that hinder students with visual impairments using the Internet? (3) What are the most prominent motivators that motivate students with visual impairments overcome the barriers using the Internet? The accessibility of the Internet has the potential to enhance the lives of students with visual impairments as well as to deny them equality of access to information. In particular, this new technology has the potential to enable or to create difficulties for students with visual impairments in the new millennium. Concerns about the Internet and the accessibility for students with visual impairments are evolving issues for the next decade.Item Time use of households with and without a wheelchair-confined member: a case study approach(Texas Tech University, 1995-05) Hunt, Naomi E. W.In addition to the demands on resources experienced by all families, those families with a member who has a disability must often accomplish more with fewer resources. Few records exist of the time adjustments that result. This study explored the household time use of couples with a male member who had mobility impairment. The research addressed how time is allocated over 24-hour periods when the female spouse is the caregiver for the male spouse confined to a wheelchair and how much of the time allocations can be attributed to the disability. The cases consisted of 12 retired couples. Each of 6 couples included a male spouse confined to a wheelchair. A comparison group consisted of 6 couples in which neither spouse had a disability. Time-use data were collected by direct, naturalistic observation methodology over the entire 24-hour period for 2 days for each couple. This resulted in the accumulation of records of detailed daily living activities difficult to obtain by other research methods. Data were analyzed by group and individual totals for 18 activity categories and also by primary and secondary tasks. Analysis revealed that females with a wheelchair-confined spouse allocated more time to physical and non-physical care of household members, food preparation, dishwashing, housecleaning, maintenance, paid and unpaid work and "other" activities than females in the comparison group. The female caregivers spent no time in organization participation and less time than comparison females in shopping, clothing construction, clothing care, management, social/recreational activities, eating and personal care. Females with a wheelchair-confined spouse spent an average of 122 minutes each 24-hour period on caregiving. Disability prohibited or severely restricted many activities of the male members with an average of 7.5 hours more time spent per 24-hour period than those without disability on the activities of personal care, eating and waiting. Frequency of interruptions of daily tasks were found to increase for female caregivers. Societal costs are incurred within households, and in society as a whole, with the onset of disability. The resulting time adjustments imposed upon all members have assessed In this study. Resource management of disability in a family setting is an area which merits continued research.