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Absenteeism [SCOPE NOTE: Chronic absence from work or school; CIRRIE term added December 2001]
Abstracts [SCOPE NOTE: Brief informative summaries of the salient points of a document]
Related Terms: Bibliographies, Indexes
Abuse [SCOPE NOTE: Mental or physical harm inflicted upon a person; term added December 1994.]
Narrower terms: Child abuse, Substance abuse
Related Terms: Violence
Use for: Domestic violence, Elder abuse, Sexual abuse, Verbal abuse
Academic achievement
Related Terms: Habilitation
Access guides [SCOPE NOTE: Documents describing accessibility of parks, airports, cities, and other facilities]
Broader Terms: Information resources
Related Terms: Accessibility, Handbooks, Program accessibility
Use for: Guides
Access to care
Use: Health care
Accessibility [SCOPE NOTE: Relative ease of negotiating obstacles, buildings, rooms, or other places by persons with crutches, in wheelchairs, or with other mobility restrictions; use more specific term listed below under "Narrower terms" when applicable]
Narrower terms: Architectural accessibility, Program accessibility, Transportation accessibility, Universal design
Related Terms: Access guides, Accessibility legislation, Accommodation, Architectural barriers, Architecture
Use for: Barrier free access
Accessibility legislation [SCOPE NOTE: Laws or legislative actions in the area of accessibility]
Broader Terms: Legislation
Related Terms: Accessibility, Architectural accessibility, Program accessibility, Transportation accessibility
Accident prevention
Use: Safety
Accommodation [SCOPE NOTE: Modification of the environment or the workplace to accommodate needs of persons with disabilities; includes providing or modifying equipment or devices, building or modifying a work station]
Related Terms: Accessibility, Architecture, Employment, Environmental control systems, Facilities standards, Home modification, Job modification, Work stations
Use for: Work adaptation
Accountability [SCOPE NOTE: Process of quality control, responsibility for actions or services]
Related Terms: Counseling techniques, Needs assessment, Placement, Service delivery
Use for: Quality assurance, Responsibility
Accounting [SCOPE NOTE: System of resolving and summarizing business and financial transactions and analyzing, verifying, and reporting the results; includes accountants]
Related Terms: Budget, Contract procurement, Cost benefit analysis, Costs, Management
Use for: Finance, Recordkeeping
Accreditation [SCOPE NOTE: Licensing of facilities; for licensing of professionals, use Certification]
Related Terms: Certification, Facilities standards, Rehabilitation facilities, Standards
Use for: Licensing
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Use: HIV, Sexually transmitted diseases
Activities of daily living (ADL)
Use: Daily living
Acupuncture
Use: Alternative medicine
ADAAG
Use: Architectural accessibility, Transportation accessibility
Adaptation
Use: Adjustment
Adaptive devices
Use: Devices
Adaptive equipment
Use: Assistive technology
Adaptive technology
Use: Assistive technology
Addiction
Use: Behavior disorders, Substance abuse
Adjustment [SCOPE NOTE: Includes acquisition of habits, attitudes, and skills enabling persons with disabilities to function as effectively as possible; includes community adjustment]
Narrower terms: Work adjustment
Related Terms: Attitudes, Attitudinal barriers
Use for: Adaptation, Coping, Humor, Life-stage adjustment, Personal adjustment, Social adjustment
Administration
Use: Management, Planning
Administrators [SCOPE NOTE: Key executives in a business, program, or agency]
Broader Terms: Personnel
Related Terms: Business, Management, Professionals, Supervisors
Use for: Executives
Adolescents
Use: Youth
Adoption [SCOPE NOTE: Includes adopted children, adoption process or programs; focuses on children with disabilities who are available for adoption]
Related Terms: Children, Family life, Parents
Adult education [SCOPE NOTE: Includes a range of instructional and learning activities for those who have completed or discontinued their formal preparatory education]
Broader Terms: Education
Related Terms: Continuing education
Adults [SCOPE NOTE: Individuals aged 18 or older]
Narrower terms: Older adults
Related Terms: Aging, Females, Males
Advertising
Use: Marketing, Public relations
Advocacy [SCOPE NOTE: Activities aimed at changing public policy orobtaining benefits for inpidual consumers; includes public education, case advocacy, legal rights, and advocates]
Related Terms: Affirmative action, Consumers, Independent living, Legal concerns, Legislation, Public relations, Self help
Use for: Civil rights, Consumer groups, Disability rights, Empowerment, Lobbying, Treatment decisions
Affirmative action [SCOPE NOTE: Hiring and promoting inpiduals regardless of race, sex, national origin, ancestry, or disability; includes aspects of civil rights, legal rights, discrimination, bias, and confidentiality]
Broader Terms: Diversity, Hiring practices
Related Terms: Advocacy, Employment, Employment legislation, Legal concerns, Personnel
Aged
Use: Aging, Older adults
Agencies
Use: Federal agencies, Municipal/regional agencies, Regional agencies
Aggression [SCOPE NOTE: Includes hostile or destructive behavior or outlook, and behavior marked by driving forceful energy or initiative; also includes aggressiveness and aggressors]
Broader Terms: Behavior, Behavior problems
Related Terms: Assertiveness, Behavior modification, Personality
Aging [SCOPE NOTE: Includes the aged, elderly, older adults, geriatrics, gerontology, and all aspects of the aging process]
Related Terms: Adults, Alzheimer's disease, Family life, Geriatric rehabilitation, Nursing homes, Older adults, Older workers, Retirement
Use for: Aged, Elderly, Gerontology
Agriculture [SCOPE NOTE: Includes farmers]
Related Terms: Horticulture, Migrants
Use for: Farming
Aides
Use: Attendant care
AIDS
Use: HIV, Sexually transmitted diseases
AIDS related complex
Use: HIV
Air transportation [SCOPE NOTE: Transportation by airplane; includes airports]
Broader Terms: Transportation
Related Terms: Public transportation, Rail transportation, Transportation accessibility, Travel
Alcoholism [SCOPE NOTE: Includes alcoholics, treatment of alcoholism, as well as persons with disabilities and alcoholism]
Broader Terms: Substance abuse
Related Terms: Fetal alcohol syndrome
Aliens
Use: Foreign born
Allergies [SCOPE NOTE: Immune disorders; hypersensitivity to specific substances]
Narrower terms: Asthma
Broader Terms: Chronic illness, Respiratory disease
Related Terms: Skin disorders
Allied health personnel
Use: Health personnel, Medical personnel, Paraprofessionals
Almanacs
Use: Handbooks
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
Use: Neuromuscular disorders
Alternative communication
Use: Communication devices
Alternative medicine [SCOPE NOTE: Treatment of a medical condition by means other than those generally accepted by the medical community, term added December 1994]
Broader Terms: Holism
Use for: Acupuncture, Chiropractic treatments, Herbal treatments
Alzheimer's disease [SCOPE NOTE: Disease characterized by progressive dementia]
Related Terms: Aging, Dementia
Ambulation [SCOPE NOTE: Act of walking, including gait]
Broader Terms: Body movement
Related Terms: Equilibrium, Mobility, Mobility aids, Mobility training, Wheelchairs
Use for: Body coordination, Gait, Locomotion
Amplification systems
Use: Sensory aids
Amputations [SCOPE NOTE: Removal of a limb or limbs, or a part thereof; includes amputees]
Broader Terms: Surgery
Related Terms: Orthopedics, Prosthetics
Use for: Trauma
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Use: Neuromuscular disorders
Analysis
Use: Evaluation
Anatomy [SCOPE NOTE: Study of the human body]
Narrower terms: Back, Body, Bones, Joints, Limbs, Muscles, Nerves, Nervous system, Spinal cord, Spine
Related Terms: Medicine, Physiology
Anemia [SCOPE NOTE: Hematologic disorder]
Narrower terms: Sickle cell anemia
Broader Terms: Blood disorders
Use for: Ischemia
Animals [SCOPE NOTE: Includes pet therapy, animal companions for persons with disabilities, guide dogs, seeing eye dogs, hearing dogs, dog training; excludes research animals; for research on animals, use ANIMAL STUDIES]
Use for: Pet therapy, Pets, Service animals
Ankle
Use: Joints
Annual reports [SCOPE NOTE: Reports issued yearly by an agency, institution, or business giving an overview of activities]
Related Terms: Final reports
Anorexia
Use: Eating disorders
Anxiety disorders [SCOPE NOTE: Term added June 1989]
Broader Terms: Emotional disorders, Psychiatric disabilities
Related Terms: Grief, Psychiatry, Psychology
Use for: Fear, Obsessive compulsive disorder, Panic disorders, Personality disorders, Phobias, Separation anxiety disorders
Aphasia [SCOPE NOTE: Loss or impairment of power of speech or ability to comprehend spoken or written language]
Broader Terms: Speech impairments
Related Terms: Brain injuries, Language, Language learning, Speech, Speech therapy, Stroke, Stuttering
Appropriations [SCOPE NOTE: Authorized sums of money set aside to pay certain known or anticipated costs of a given program, item, or service]
Related Terms: Financial aid, Funding, Grants
ARC
Use: HIV
Architectural accessibility [SCOPE NOTE: Providing entry to buildings or houses to all inpiduals
regardless of their physical or mental characteristics; includes
parking lots, voting booths, sidewalks, and other types of
architectures]
Broader Terms: Accessibility
Related Terms: Accessibility legislation, Architecture, Bathrooms, Facilities, Home modification, Housing, Program accessibility, Universal design
Use for: ADAAG, Signage
Architectural barriers [SCOPE NOTE: Structural obstacles barring access of persons with physical
disabilities to a place, building, vehicle; includes building
design which limits use by persons with mobility or sensory
difficulties such as curbs, door sizes, restrooms, and so forth]
Broader Terms: Barriers
Related Terms: Accessibility, Architecture, Facilities, Housing
Architecture [SCOPE NOTE: General term used in discussing aspects of a building not related to architectural barriers or accessibility]
Related Terms: Accessibility, Accommodation, Architectural accessibility, Architectural barriers, Facilities, Housing, Universal design
Armed forces
Use: Military
Arms
Use: Limbs
Art therapy [SCOPE NOTE: Using art in the treatment or remediation of persons with disabilities]
Broader Terms: Therapy
Related Terms: Arts, Bibliotherapy, Music therapy, Occupational therapy, Physical therapy, Psychotherapy
Arthritis [SCOPE NOTE: Chronic disease of the joints]
Broader Terms: Chronic illness, Musculoskeletal disorders
Related Terms: Joints, Limbs, Muscles, Pain
Use for: Rheumatic diseases
Artificial intelligence
Use: Decision support systems
Arts [SCOPE NOTE: Includes plays, art, theater, crafts, movies, and other art forms; includes entertainers and artists]
Related Terms: Art therapy, Bibliotherapy, Leisure, Music therapy, Recreation, Therapy
ASL (American Sign Language)
Use: Sign language
Assertiveness [SCOPE NOTE: Includes assertiveness training]
Broader Terms: Behavior
Related Terms: Aggression, Behavior modification
Assessment
Use: Diagnosis, Evaluation, Needs assessment, Tests
Assistive technology [SCOPE NOTE: Broad term encompassing both high- and low-technology devices designed to aid people with disabilities]
Narrower terms: Communication devices, Mobility aids, Sensory aids, Technology assistance programs
Broader Terms: Technology
Related Terms: Computers, Devices, Engineering, Medical technology, Technology development, Technology transfer
Use for: Adaptive equipment, Adaptive technology, Instrumentation
Associations
Use: Organizations
Asthma [SCOPE NOTE: Immune disorders characterized by wheezing and coughing due to spasmodic contractions of the bronchi]
Broader Terms: Allergies, Chronic illness, Respiratory disease
Atrophy
Use: Muscular impairments
Attendant care [SCOPE NOTE: Personal care provided for persons with disabilities usually not in an institutional setting; includes attendants, recruitment, and training]
Related Terms: Day care, Independent living, Long term care, Respite care
Use for: Aides, Personal assistance, Personal care attendants
Attention deficit disorders [SCOPE NOTE: Disorders involving impaired attention span; term added June 1989]
Attitudes [SCOPE NOTE: General term used only when a more specific term does not apply; includes bias, discrimination, client attitudes, employee attitudes, social attitudes, and feelings]
Narrower terms: Counselor attitudes, Employer attitudes, Work attitudes
Broader Terms: Personality
Related Terms: Adjustment, Attitudinal barriers, Diversity, Perception, Self concept
Use for: Attitudes toward disabled, Prejudice
Attitudes toward disabled
Use: Attitudes
Attitudinal barriers [SCOPE NOTE: Attitudes and feelings which negatively affect the integration of persons with disabilities into society]
Broader Terms: Barriers
Related Terms: Adjustment, Attitudes, Counselor attitudes, Employer attitudes, Self concept
Audiology [SCOPE NOTE: Includes study of hearing disorders, particularly the rehabilitation of inpiduals with impaired hearing]
Related Terms: Audiometry, Communication, Communication skills, Hearing aids, Hearing impairments
Use for: Hearing
Audiometry [SCOPE NOTE: Testing and measurement of hearing acuity]
Related Terms: Audiology, Hearing impairments, Tests
Audiovisual materials [SCOPE NOTE: Includes documents about nonprint materials and audiovisual equipment. Excludes microfilm, microfiche, or micrographics. For specific audiovisual formats, the format type is listed on the call number line of the database record following the call number; the following formats are used: Audio Cassette, Audio Disk, Audio Tape, Film, Filmstrip, Slide Tape, Video Cassette, and Video Tape]
Related Terms: Micrographics, Telecommunications, Television
Use for: Audiovisuals, Film, Multimedia, Slide tape, Video cassette, Video tape
Audiovisuals
Use: Audiovisual materials
Augmentative and alternative communication
Use: Communication devices
Autism [SCOPE NOTE: Absorption in subjective mental activity, especially when accompanied by marked withdrawal from reality]
Broader Terms: Developmental disabilities, Disabilities, Psychiatric disabilities
Autobiography
Use: Biographies
Autoimmune disorders [SCOPE NOTE: Any disorder that affects the body's ability to defend itself against illness, term added December 1994]
Narrower terms: HIV, Lupus
