The influence of written disabling, nondisabling, and unaltered disability descriptors on attitudes toward persons with a disability among persons with and without a head injury

International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-106

  Gouvier, Wm Drew ^a   Betz, Brian ^a   O'Jile, Judith R ^a   Ryan, Laurie M ^a   Parks Levy, Judith ^a   Groves, Amy ^a   Coon, Robert C ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; College students; Disability; Head injury; Language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0030803134     PISSN: 10689591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02806723     Document Type: Article

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