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Wages
Use: Income
Walking aids
Use: Mobility aids
War injuries [SCOPE NOTE: Pertaining to civilians, not veterans; CIRRIE term added April 2000]
Use for: Landmines
Web sites
Use: Internet
Welfare
Related Terms: Income, Insurance, Low income, Poverty, Reform, Unemployment
Use for: Public assistance
Welfare reform
Use: Reform
Wellness
Use: Health promotion
Wheelchair controls
Broader Terms: Controls
Related Terms: Wheelchairs
Wheelchair design
Broader Terms: Devices design
Related Terms: Wheelchairs
Use for: Product design
Wheelchair maintenance [SCOPE NOTE: Includes repair and life expectancy of wheelchairs]
Related Terms: Wheelchairs
Wheelchairs
Broader Terms: Devices, Mobility aids
Related Terms: Ambulation, Mobility, Seating, Transportation, Wheelchair controls, Wheelchair design, Wheelchair maintenance
Use for: Locomotion
WHO
Use: World health organization
Wives
Use: Spouses
Women
Use: Females
Work
Use: Employment
Work adaptation
Use: Accommodation, Job modification
Work adjustment [SCOPE NOTE: Includes programs or training designed to help persons with disabilities form a work personality that will help them increase their productivity and handle the day-to-day demands of competitive employment by developing self-confidence, self-control, work tolerance, ability to handle interpersonal relationships, and an understanding of work; includes job adjustment and on-the-job work behavior]
Broader Terms: Adjustment
Related Terms: Employment, Vocational evaluation, Vocational training, Work attitudes, Work environment, Work hardening
Use for: Personal adjustment, Vocational adjustment, Work evaluation
Work attitudes [SCOPE NOTE: Attitudes of persons with disabilities toward work; includes programs to achieve better work attitudes on the part of clients]
Broader Terms: Attitudes
Related Terms: Employer attitudes, Employment, Work adjustment
Work disabilities
Use: Employment reentry, Occupational injuries, Workers compensation
Work environment
Related Terms: Employer attitudes, Employment, Work adjustment, Work stations
Work evaluation
Use: Vocational evaluation, Work adjustment
Work experience
Use: Employability
Work hardening [SCOPE NOTE: An individualized, work-oriented process that employs simulated or actual work situations structured to progressively increase work-related strength, stamina, and productivity]
Broader Terms: Employment
Related Terms: Work adjustment
Work incentive
Use: Employment, Incentives
Work performance [SCOPE NOTE: All types of performance relating to work go under this term, except for counselor performance, use COUNSELING EFFECTIVENESS or COUNSELOR EVALUATION; for productivity issues, use EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY]
Related Terms: Employment
Work related disabilities
Use: Occupational injuries
Work samples [SCOPE NOTE: Replications of actual industrial tasks, business operations, or components of an occupational area, used by an evaluator to determine an individual's work aptitude and ability to function within a variety of related vocational areas]
Related Terms: Employment, Vocational evaluation
Work stations [SCOPE NOTE: Places where an individual performs job tasks]
Related Terms: Accommodation, Employment, Ergonomics, Work environment
Work study programs [SCOPE NOTE: Programs which include academic studies and practical applications of the knowledge gained]
Broader Terms: Employment, Employment programs, Programs
Related Terms: Education, On the job training, Schools, Training, Universities, Vocational training
Use for: Cooperative school programs
Work transition [SCOPE NOTE: Transition of persons with disabilities from school or training to a job]
Use for: Transition, Transitional employment
Workers compensation [SCOPE NOTE: State-regulated, employer-paid insurance policy providing health
care, weekly income payments, and rehabilition services to individuals injured on the job]
Broader Terms: Insurance
Related Terms: Disability determination, Disability insurance, Employment, Unemployment
Use for: Work disabilities
Workers with disabilities [SCOPE NOTE: People with disabilities in the workplace]
Use for: Disabled workers, Handicapped employees
Workforce structure
Use: Economic trends, Employment statistics
Workshops [SCOPE NOTE: Brief, intensive educational programs for a relatively smallgroup of people in a given field, emphasizing participation]
Broader Terms: Education
Related Terms: Conferences, Continuing education, Professional training, Staff development, Training
Use for: Instructional workshops, Professional workshops, Seminars
Worksite modification
Use: Job modification
World health organization [SCOPE NOTE: Specialized agency of the United Nations established to
further international cooperation for improved health conditions; CIRRIE term added April 2000]
Related Terms: ICF
Use for: WHO
Wounds
Use: Injuries
Wrists
Use: Joints
Writing skills [SCOPE NOTE: Includes ways to develop the ability to write, term added December 1994]
Related Terms: Learning
