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Community-Based Rehabilitation: Reaching the Unreached.
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O'Toole, Brian – International Journal of Special Education, 1988
This paper examines the magnitude of the problem of disability facing developing countries; the traditional response to this challenge and its ineffectiveness; the emergence of community-based rehabilitation (CBR); its underlying assumptions and effectiveness in terms of staff training, interagency partnerships, and parental and community…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Developing Nations, Disabilities, International Studies
Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR): Problems and Possibilities.
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O'Toole, Brian – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 1987
The institution-based model for providing services to individuals with disabilities has limitations in both developing and developed countries. The community-based rehabilitation model was positively evaluated by the World Health Organization as an alternative approach, but the evaluation is questioned on methodological and philosophical grounds.…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
A Community-Based Rehabilitation Programme for Pre-School Disabled Children in Guyana.
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O'Toole, Brian – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1988
The paper presents a rationale for and evaluation of community-based rehabilitation (CBR). A CBR program implemented with 53 preschool disabled children in rural areas of Guyana found that the children's development improved significantly; the parents were willing to be involved; and parents' attitudes toward their children, themselves, and their…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Developing Nations, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Development of Training Materials for Community Based Rehabilitation Workers in Guyana.
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O'Toole, Brian; McConkey, Roy – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1995
This paper describes video training packages that have been developed in Guyana as part of Hopeful Steps, a program which uses the Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) model of service delivery for training rehabilitation workers and volunteers and now serves children with disabilities and their families in five rural regions of the country. (DB)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Developing Nations, Disabilities
A Training Strategy for Personnel Working in Developing Countries.
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McConkey, Roy; O'Toole, Brian – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1998
Describes the training strategy developed by the Community Based Rehabilitation Programme in Guyana. The strategy has three components: the identification of training needs of families and support workers, the production of video-based training packages on specific topics, and the utilization of available personnel to act as local tutors.…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Community Resources, Developing Nations
Step by Step': A Community Based Rehabilitation Project with Disabled Children in Guyana. Bilingual Version = Pas a pas: Un project de readaptation a base communautaire pour les enfants handicapes en Guyane. Version bilingue. Notes, Comments...No. 189.
O'Toole, Brian – 1990
The document, in both English and French, describes a 2-year project in Guyana based on the principle of community-based rehabilitation (CBR), which stresses training local community residents as supervisors to provide training of rehabilitation workers and direct services to children with disabilities living in rural areas. The program provided…
Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations