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Spinal Cord Injury: Vocational Rehabilitation and Disability Evaluation

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Abstract

The experience of work and employment is a major life area to most people including persons with spinal cord injury (SCI); hence, it is crucial to understand and assess disability, which may affect work. In this chapter, the application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model of the World Health Organization (WHO) and how the ICF model can help us to understand and examine work disability, vocational rehabilitation, and disability evaluation and their application to individuals with SCI will be discussed.

The ICF can be used as a universal reference framework when describing the functioning of an individual with SCI whose work functioning may be less than optimal or whose condition prevents optimal employment participation. One application of the ICF is the ICF Core Set, which is an essential set of ICF categories to depict functioning. Illustration and comparison will be made in this chapter using the ICF Core Set for Vocational Rehabilitation and ICF Core Set for SCI. Finally, contextual factors (environmental and personal factors) relevant to the topic of work and SCI are also presented.

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA

    Reuben Escorpizo

  2. Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil, Switzerland

    Reuben Escorpizo

  3. ICF Research Branch, WHO CC FIC in Germany (DIMDI), Nottwil, Switzerland

    Reuben Escorpizo

  4. School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Logan M. Trenaman

  5. GF Strong Rehabilitation Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Logan M. Trenaman & William C. Miller

  6. Graduate Program in Rehabilitation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    William C. Miller

  7. Department of Occupational Sciences and Occupational Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    William C. Miller

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  2. Research Unit, Directorate for Labour and Welfare, Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  3. Department of Rehabilitation and Counsel, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA

    Debra Homa

  4. Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Luzern, Switzerland

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Escorpizo, R., Trenaman, L.M., Miller, W.C. (2015). Spinal Cord Injury: Vocational Rehabilitation and Disability Evaluation. In: Escorpizo, R., Brage, S., Homa, D., Stucki, G. (eds) Handbook of Vocational Rehabilitation and Disability Evaluation. Handbooks in Health, Work, and Disability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08825-9_11

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