Recently added articles from American Rehabilitation:
Our commitment: to the empowerment of individuals with disabilities.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Empowerment is multidimensional. It means, among other things, having decision-making power, access to information, the opportunity to make meaningful choices, understanding of rights and responsibilities, a sense of hope, raised self-esteem and control over the direction of one's life ....
How empowerment: changed my life.
Sep 22, 2004; ... "I don't have to live in my car anymore." It is through my personal and professional experience that I write this article on empowerment. I have thought about empowerment a lot throughout the years. I have researched it, lived with it and lived without it. I have shared ...
Slaying dragons: building self-confidence and raising expectations through orientation center training.(Iowa Department for the Blind's Adult Orientation and Adjustment Center)
Sep 22, 2004; ... In his 1919 fable, "The 51st Dragon," Heywood Broun describes the exploits of Gawaine, a young student in knight school who is so timid and fearful that he is in danger of being expelled. Instead, the school's headmaster decides to take Gawaine under his wing and train him to slay the ...
Enhancing personal empowerment of people with psychiatric disabilities.
Sep 22, 2004; ... For most of recorded history, people with psychiatric disabilities have struggled with maintaining personal power over their lives. The centuries-old battle against stigma is the best example of this struggle. The ancient Greeks first gave voice to the concept of stigma noting that those ...
Self-determination and the empowerment of people with disabilities.
Sep 22, 2004; ... The usage note in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (2000) states the following with regard to the word empower: <Pre>"Although it is a contemporarybuzzword, the word empower is notnew, having arisen in the mid-17thcentury with the ...