Prediction of Starting Weekly Salaries of Rehabilitated Severely Disabled Women

The relationship of race, age, marital status, years of education, number of months the case has been open, and number of services with starting weekly salary of severely physically disabled female rehabilitants was examined via forward stepwise multiple regression analyses. Years of education and number of months the case had been open were positively correlated with salary for visually impaired women and for the total sample. Years of education alone provided the best prediction model for salary among orthopedically impaired women.

Physically Impaired Mainstreamed Pupils' Reactions to School

Preliminary data regarding the perceptions of school life among 75 physically impaired mainstreamed pupils and a norm group of children learning in regular classrooms are presented. Scores on the Israeli Quality of School Life scale suggest differences and similarities among extremely short, diabetic, and orthopedically impaired pupils. In general, physically impaired mainstreamed pupils show levels of satisfaction with school comparable to those of the norm group.

Arthritic Sexuality: Implications Concerned in the Rehabilitation and Adjustive Processes of Arthritics

Statistics provided by the Rehabilitation Services Administration relate that more people continually seek the professional services of rehabilitation counselors because of orthopedic impairments than any other single physical category of disorder. In 1976, 25,076 (20%) of the total number of cases reported (125,342), were orthopedically impaired. Orthopedic impairments were second only to mental illness as a disabling condition with 25.2 % or 31,552 cases reported. Primary causes listed for the major disabling orthopedic condition reveals arthritis and rheumatism as the third leading cause of orthopedic impairment (trailing accidents involving the spinal cord — 11.6 % or 2,904 cases, and “all other accidents” with 36.7% or 9,193 cases reported) comprising 10.8% or 2,696 of the total 25,076 cases documented. In fiscal year 1977, the Texas Rehabilitation Commission handled 2,418 applicants reporting arthritic difficulties alone.These statistics disclose the continuing efforts of rehabilitation with arthritics today. Rehabilitation of the arthritic can involve both physical and mental aspects in the total rehabilitation process. Physical aspects, although quite challenging in themselves, can be conquered, but the psychological and psychosocial difficulties encountered in the adjustment processes of the arthritic disease may prove even more difficult or challenging to the rehabilitation counselor, especially since they can be linked to the client's concept of worth and ability.This essay is an attempt to mobilize further insight and awareness on an important but often neglected topic —sexuality and the arthritic and any implications it may involve in the adjustment and rehabilitation process of arthritic individuals. More specifically, the context of this essay will examine and discuss a multitude of factors which exhibit a profound impact on the development and maintenance of sexuality within the arthritic person, factors such as societal expectations, and psychosocial barriers. Before concluding the· essay various management and treatment techniques are related which can assist the reader in gaining a better understanding of the elements involved in the arthritic's sexual adjustment and rehabilitation process. It is hoped that this paper will provide useful insight. into questions frequently posed on the subject of sex· and the ab1l1ties of arthritics to fulfill these sexual roles.