An investigation into the physical accessibility to wheelchair bound students of an Institution of Higher Education in South Africa

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 305-308

  Losinsky, L O ^a   Levi, T ^a   Saffey, K ^a   Jelsma, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL BARRIER; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SANITATION; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME; TRAVEL; VELOCITY; WHEELCHAIR;

ADULT; ARCHITECTURAL ACCESSIBILITY; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; SOUTH AFRICA; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 0038476319     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0963828021000043743     Document Type: Article

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