Miles M
Mental Health Centre, Mission Hospital, Peshawar, N.W.F.P., Pakistan.
Soc Sci Med. 1989;28(3):207-10. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(89)90263-3.
Rehabilitation and special education are usually conceived in terms of methods, gadgets, locations and professions. Generalist planners often have difficulty grasping the essentials of the field, while resource constraints in Third World countries severely limit the extent to which these four features may become widely available. Reconceptualization of the field as information-based rehabilitation opens new, low-cost possibilities for empowering disabled people and their families and communities. A basic approach is described from Pakistan, for methodical dissemination of appropriate information, with feedback, evaluation and on-going information systems. Some comparative merits of various media are discussed, together with the values inherent in information and some constraints on information-based rehabilitation.
康复和特殊教育通常是从方法、器具、场所和专业等方面来理解的。通才规划者往往难以把握该领域的核心要点，而第三世界国家的资源限制严重制约了这四个特征得以广泛普及的程度。将该领域重新概念化为基于信息的康复，为增强残疾人及其家庭和社区的能力开辟了新的低成本可能性。文中介绍了一种源自巴基斯坦的基本方法，用于系统地传播适当信息，并配有反馈、评估和持续的信息系统。文中还讨论了各种媒体的一些比较优势，以及信息所固有的价值和基于信息的康复所面临的一些限制。
