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World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1980
The manual contains three classifications (impairments, disabilities, and handicaps), each relating to a different plane of experience consequent upon disease. Section 1 attempts to clarify the nature of health related experiences by addressing reponse to acute and chronic illness; the unifying framework for classification (principle events in the…
Descriptors: Classification, Communication Disorders, Definitions, Disabilities