responding to Kate Kaul: There are probably many places to get recent info
on the revision of ICIDH, although as you know it is still in process and
so things change. Having just heard a report from Paul Placek of the U.S.
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), who is a representative to
the WHO group working on it, I will pass on to you the website address for
a "course" that conveys the concepts and coding instructions (known as CODE
IDH2) for the revision as it currently stands:
<http://www.westernu.edu/cdihp/courses> The contact persons to help make
that work for you are: Dr. LeeAnne Carrothers <[log in to unmask]> or
Dr. Gretchen Swanson <[log in to unmask]> Hope this helps. I haven't yet
personally logged on to that site, but plan to.
Best, Corinne
At 12:36 AM 08/04/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>[log in to unmask] writes:
> >I think that at this point I may abandon this discussion, as it is
> >becoming
> >increasingly circular. In my experience most of the pwd and families
> >supporting them are not particularly interested in the philosophical
> >aspects
> >and naval gazing that comes with it.
>
>No? I get really tired of being told that there is an unbridgeable rift
>between the experience of real pwds (and their families), and "the
>philosophical aspects and navel gazing" that characterize this kind of
>discussion. Claiming experience like this is not a very useful way to
>dismiss a discussion which isn't answering your questions the way you want
>them answered. My comments are rooted in my own experience of disability,
>and the need to assert my rights and claim disability in specific ways, in
>specific contexts, to get my needs and rights respected. Negotiating
>definitions, language, and social structures is part of disability
>experience for many, many, people. I'm at graduate school, investigating
>disability in an interdisciplinary context, and this is also part of my
>experience. This is a research list, and this thread is still discussing
>disability research. You may not be interested in discussing the politics
>of definition and identification or in any of my comments but they were at
>least a polite response to your questions, and I think the tone of your
>own response to me is entirely uncalled for.
>
> >They are too stretched and exhausted
> >from the physical and emotional overload in their life, and look at the
> >community, or our government representing the community for help. they
> >really don't give a damn whether this is by right or out of charity, as
> >long
> >as the help meets their needs.
>
>What we're talking about is how people get "help," or services( or equity,
>or recognition of rights, obligations, and other aspects of citizenship).
> >
> >So far this discussion has produced a lot of hot air, but no answers to my
> >questions.
> >
> >au revoir, John
>
>bye.
>
>I'm still interested in finding the new version of the ICIDH; does anyone
>have a citation? David?!
>I'll be away til the middle of next week; I'll be interested to see where
>this discussion has gone by then.
>regards,
>Kate
Corinne Kirchner, Ph.D.
Director of Policy Research & Program
Evaluation
American Foundation for the Blind
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