Hi all,
I am a graduate student in social psychology at the University of Colorado. Recently I conducted a randomized field experiment testing the efficacy of a self-affirmation exercise in improving rehabilitation outcomes of blind students attending a rehabilitation center. The initial data are positive and I am in the process of writing it up for a mainstream psychology journal. I would like to describe the prevalence of disability in the population and the barriers to integration (unemployment etc.) in order to justify the importance of the work I did. However, as a psychologist I am not very familiar with the cross-disability literature. Could someone please point me to any relevant literature where I could find the following:
-- The estimated prevalence of disabilities in the United States or worldwide;
-- The estimated employment rate (or unemployment rate) for Americans with disabilities;
-- or any literature supporting the positive value of rehabilitation or training in adaptive skills for fostering the integration and well-being of people with disabilities.
Thanks and best,
Arielle
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