Approach to Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (original) (raw)

The number of persons with disabilities (PWDs) worldwide, and particularly in the developing countries, is increasing due to wars, conflicts, vehicular accidents, chronic diseases, mental impairment, birth defects and malnutrition. Many of these PWDs face participation-restriction in activities of life. Thus, rehabilitation seeks to remove the handicapping effects of disability and lead to an improvement in the quality of life of the PWDs. Therefore, This paper reviews the institutional-based rehabilitation (IBR) and community-based rehabilitation (CBR) approaches for rehabilitation. Other areas entail in the paper are conceptual definitions of rehabilitation and persons with disabilities. The paper ends with a conclusion as well.