Exploratory study of perceived quality of life with implanted standing neuroprostheses.

Individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) need options for negotiating architectural barriers, completing essential transfers, and accessing items on high shelves or in cupboards that cannot be reached from the wheelchair or safely managed with reachers. Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have developed an assistive technology device to assist individuals with SCI to stand and transfer. The 8-channel implanted CWRU-VA system enables persons with SCI to exercise, stand, and maneuver in the vicinity of their wheelchairs.

An interactive electronic instructional unit on substance abuse.

This paper describes an approach to instruction for allied health students in screening and brief intervention to assist children and adolescents living with adults who are abusing substances. Substance abuse is a major public health problem in the United States; among its outcomes is damage to children living in the home. Health professionals should screen child and adolescent clients to determine whether adults in the home are substance abusers, and provide help for children living with such adults.

Community-based substance abuse training: helping children living in families with substance-abusing adults.

Elementary school staff requested and were provided with strategies for helping students and a resource guide to services for students living with substance-abusing adults.

Women's work in Guatemala.

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to describe women's work in Maya communities in the Guatemala Highlands, along with some of the trends accompanying the rapid societal change there.

Method: Over the course of six years, observations and interviews focused on two specific groups of women. The first were traditional, home-based women, the second, teachers in a primary school.

Culture emergent in occupation.

Culture influences occupation as well as perceptions of health, illness, and disability. Therapists are aware of the need to address culture in interventions. However, definitions of culture can be unclear, providing little guidance to therapists about how to recognize its effects in therapeutic encounters.