Thesaurus E
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E-mail
Use: Internet
Early intervention [SCOPE NOTE: Immediate action following onset or diagnosis to ameliorate the effects of a disability; action taken to prevent a possible disabling condition]
Broader Terms: Intervention
Related Terms: Diagnosis, Disability management, Medical treatment, Prevention
Eating
Use: Feeding
Eating disorders [SCOPE NOTE: Relates to disorders causing overeating and undereating; term added June 1989]
Related Terms: Depression, Feeding, Obesity
Use for: Anorexia, Bulimia
Economic trends [SCOPE NOTE: Includes employment patterns; CIRRIE term added April 2000]
Broader Terms: Trends
Related Terms: Employment statistics
Use for: Employment trends, Workforce structure
Economically disadvantaged
Use: Poverty
Economics [SCOPE NOTE: Social science dealing with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services; includes inflation, economic indicators or characteristics, labor market conditions, and economic aspects]
Narrower terms: Employment economics
Related Terms: Costs, Employment costs
Education [SCOPE NOTE: Includes instruction from infancy through grade 12; includes all aspects of education not listed under narrower or related terms below]
Narrower terms: Adult education, Continuing education, Counselor education, Instructional methods, Patient education, Physical education, Preschool, Professional education, Professional training, Retraining, Special education, Therapeutic training, Vocational education, Vocational training, Workshops
Related Terms: Careers, Curriculum, Dropouts, Educational initiatives, Individualized education plan, Instructional materials, Learning, Learning disabilities, Schools, Students, Teachers, Teaching, Training, Universities, Work study programs
Educational initiatives [SCOPE NOTE: A formalized or structured program whose objective is to promote an educational goal; CIRRIE term added April 2000]
Related Terms: Education
Educationally disadvantaged
Use: Poverty
Elbows
Use: Joints
Elder abuse
Use: Abuse
Elderly
Use: Aging, Older adults, Older workers
Electrical stimulation [SCOPE NOTE: Use of electrical means to restore function through tissue response, including restoration of various forms of motor control, such as heart pacemakers, and inhibition of phantom limb pain]
Related Terms: Electronics, Electrophysiology, Rehabilitation engineering
Use for: Electrotherapy, Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)
Electronic discussion groups
Use: Internet
Electronic mail
Use: Internet
Electronics [SCOPE NOTE: Includes applied electronics, electronic devices for medical treatment of individuals, as well as theory and application of electronics]
Related Terms: Computers, Electrical stimulation, Electrophysiology, Telecommunications
Electrophysiology [SCOPE NOTE: Study of electrical phenomena associated with physiological processes; includes relationships such as effects of electrical stimulation upon the tissue, production of electrical currents by organs and tissues]
Related Terms: Bioengineering, Electrical stimulation, Electronics
Electrotherapy
Use: Electrical stimulation, Therapy
Elementary schools
Use: Schools
Eligibility [SCOPE NOTE: Determination of the qualification of an applicant for rehabilitation services]
Related Terms: Disability determination, Evaluation, Functional limitations
Emergent conditions [SCOPE NOTE: Conditions newly identified as disabilities AIDS, etc.; CIRRIE term added April 2000]
Emotional disabilities
Use: Emotional disorders
Emotional disorders [SCOPE NOTE: Psychological of psychiatric conditions causing aberrant emotional response. Includes bipolar disorders. For such conditions causing aberrant behavior, also use BEHAVIOR DISORDERS. Term added July 1998.]
Narrower terms: Anxiety disorders, Depression
Broader Terms: Psychiatric disabilities
Related Terms: Behavior disorders
Use for: Emotional disabilities, Emotionally disturbed
Emotionally disturbed
Use: Emotional disorders
Emotions [SCOPE NOTE: For conditions causing aberrant emotional response, use EMOTIONAL DISORDERS]
Narrower terms: Grief
Broader Terms: Personality
Related Terms: Behavior, Mental health, Psychiatric disabilities
Emphysema [SCOPE NOTE: Chronic pulmonary disease characterized by air in body tissue or organs, applied especially to such a condition of the lungs]
Broader Terms: Chronic illness, Respiratory disease
Related Terms: COPD, Cardiopulmonary function
Employability [SCOPE NOTE: Potential for work]
Related Terms: Employment
Use for: Job readiness, Vocational potential, Work experience
Employee assistance programs [SCOPE NOTE: Programs or services provided by the employer to help
employees with personal or other matters, including retirement
planning or alcohol/drug rehabilitation]
Related Terms: Employee benefits, Employment, Rehabilitation services
Employee benefits [SCOPE NOTE: A non-salary remuneration in the form of insurance,pension, compensated time not worked, or other program generally entitled by virtue of employment status; CIRRIE term added April 2000]
Related Terms: Employee assistance programs
Employee productivity [SCOPE NOTE: Production or performance in an employment setting]
Related Terms: Employment
Use for: Performance evaluation, Production
Employer attitudes [SCOPE NOTE: Employers reactions to employees with disabilities, includes
middle management, supervisors, and co-workers attitudes]
Broader Terms: Attitudes
Related Terms: Attitudinal barriers, Employment, Work attitudes, Work environment
Employers [SCOPE NOTE: Persons, organizations, or corporations that employ workers]
Related Terms: Employment
Employment [SCOPE NOTE: Occupation or provision of a job]
Narrower terms: Competitive employment, Counselor employment, Full-time employment, Part-time employment, Private sector employment, Self employment, Supported employment, Underemployment, Work hardening, Work study programs
Related Terms: Accommodation, Affirmative action, Careers, Disincentives, Employability, Employee assistance programs, Employee productivity, Employer attitudes, Employers, Employment costs, Employment economics, Employment legislation, Employment programs, Employment reentry, Employment success, Hiring practices, Incentives, Income, Job analysis, Job descriptions, Job development, Job modification, Job satisfaction, Job search, Job training techniques, Manpower, Migrants, Older workers, Placement, Post employment, Retirement, Retraining, Sheltered workshops, Taxes, Time management, Unions, Vocational education, Vocational evaluation, Vocational training, Work adjustment, Work attitudes, Work environment, Work performance, Work samples, Work stations, Workers compensation
Use for: Disabled job seekers, Jobs, Work, Work incentive
Employment costs [SCOPE NOTE: Amounts of money related to employing persons with disabilities]
Broader Terms: Costs
Related Terms: Cost benefit analysis, Cost control strategies, Economics, Employment
Employment economics [SCOPE NOTE: Economic factors or implications relating to employing a person with a disability]
Broader Terms: Economics
Related Terms: Cost benefit analysis, Cost control strategies, Disincentives, Employment
Employment legislation [SCOPE NOTE: Legislation, including laws and bills, relating to employing
persons with disabilities]
Broader Terms: Legislation
Related Terms: Affirmative action, Employment
Employment outcome [SCOPE NOTE: The short or long term result or effectiveness of a program or effort whose objective is employment of persons with disability; CIRRIE term added April 2000]
Employment programs [SCOPE NOTE: Programs set up to enhance employment of persons with disabilities]
Narrower terms: Supported employment, Work study programs
Broader Terms: Programs
Related Terms: Employment, On the job training
Use for: Recruitment
Employment reentry [SCOPE NOTE: Return to former job, or a new job, by a person injured on the job]
Related Terms: Employment, Occupational injuries, Retraining
Use for: Return to work, Work disabilities
Employment statistics [SCOPE NOTE: Cumulative data categorized in reference to employment factors across a population; CIRRIE term added April 2000]
Related Terms: Economic trends, Rehabilitation success, Vocational rehabilitation
Use for: Performance evaluation, Success, Workforce structure
Employment success [SCOPE NOTE: Achievement or gains of employed persons with disabilities]
Related Terms: Employment
Employment trends
Use: Economic trends
Empowerment [SCOPE NOTE: Promoting self-advocacy among people with disabilities]
Related Terms: Self concept
End stage renal disease [SCOPE NOTE: Condition in which the functions of the kidneys are impaired to a point where assistance must be provided, either by dialysis or transplantation, if life is to
continue]
Broader Terms: Kidney disorders, Urinary disorders
Use for: Dialysis, Renal disorders
Endocrine disorders [SCOPE NOTE: Disorder of any of the glands which secrete hormonal substances into the bloodstream]
Narrower terms: Diabetes
Engineering [SCOPE NOTE: Formerly ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY. Methods and materials related to the practical application of mathematical and scientific principles to the design, construction, and operation of economical and efficient structures, equipment, and systems. Term added July 1998.]
Narrower terms: Rehabilitation engineering
Broader Terms: Technology
Related Terms: Assistive technology, Devices, Medical technology, Technology development, Technology transfer
Use for: Engineering technology, Product design
Engineering technology
Use: Engineering
Enteral feeding
Use: Feeding
Enuresis
Use: Incontinence
Environmental control systems [SCOPE NOTE: Systems permitting persons with physical disabilities
to control their immediate surroundings including turning on and off
lights, radio or television, answering and initiating telephone
calls, and locking or unlocking doors; technical components are
the switch, the control box, the feedback information display,
and the appliances to be controlled]
Related Terms: Accommodation, Computer applications, Controls, Home modification, Job modification
Environmental hazards [SCOPE NOTE: CIRRIE term added 2002]
Environmental therapy
Use: Milieu therapy
Epidemiology [SCOPE NOTE: Study of various factors relating to disease frequency, occurrence, and distribution in a population or community]
Related Terms: Demographics, Etiology, Health statistics, Incidence, Prevalence, Statistics
Use for: Morbidity
Epilepsy [SCOPE NOTE: Any of various disorders marked by disturbed electrical rhythms of the central nervous system, and typically manifested by convulsive attacks, usually with clouding of consciousness]
Broader Terms: Developmental disabilities, Disabilities, Neurological disorders
Epstein-Barr
Use: Chronic fatigue syndrome
Equilibrium [SCOPE NOTE: State of balance or rest; can involve balance problems associated with specific disabilities]
Related Terms: Ambulation, Body movement, Spasticity
Use for: Balance, Body coordination
Equipment
Use: Devices
Ergonomics [SCOPE NOTE: Field of knowledge of human work; matching of machines and people to increase efficiency; includes concern with design of equipment and the arrangement of physical conditions of work or environment and measurement of energy and muscle output in the performance of work]
Related Terms: Devices design, Repetitive strain injuries, Work stations
Use for: Human engineering, Human factors
Ethics
Broader Terms: Philosophy
Use for: Informed consent
Ethnic groups
Related Terms: Cultural diversity, Diversity, Foreign born
Use for: Minorities, Underserved populations
Etiology [SCOPE NOTE: Study of the cause and development of a disease or abnormal condition]
Broader Terms: Medicine
Related Terms: Epidemiology, Pathology
Use for: Cause of illness
Evaluation [SCOPE NOTE: Broad term describing the total process of assessment according to a defined set of criteria, careful appraisal or study; use more specific term listed below under "Narrower
terms" when appropriate]
Narrower terms: Cost benefit analysis, Counselor evaluation, Devices evaluation, Functional evaluation, Job analysis, Medical evaluation, Needs assessment, Physical evaluation, Program evaluation, Psychiatric evaluation, Psychological tests, Task analysis, Vocational evaluation
Related Terms: Client satisfaction, Devices, Diagnosis, Eligibility, Evaluation techniques, Functional limitations, Goal setting, Outcome, Psychological tests, Questionnaires, Standards, Tests
Use for: Analysis, Assessment, Functional analysis, Scales
Evaluation techniques [SCOPE NOTE: Processes or procedures used in evaluation; includes rehabilitation indicators]
Narrower terms: Goal attainment scaling, Intelligence tests, Interview techniques, Psychological tests, Questionnaires, Surveys
Related Terms: Counseling techniques, Evaluation, Functional limitations, Job training techniques, Tests, Vocational evaluation
Use for: Performance evaluation
Evidence based practice [SCOPE NOTE: Systematically finding, appraising, and using contemporaneous research findings as the basis for providing rehabilitation services (CIRRIE term added 2008)]
Related Terms: Reviews, Service delivery
Executives
Use: Administrators
Exercise [SCOPE NOTE: Physical activity related to health and fitness; may be medically related]
Related Terms: Leisure, Physical education, Physical fitness, Physical therapy, Recreation, Sports
Expert systems
Use: Decision support systems
Expert witness
Use: Testimony
Extremities
Use: Limbs
