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to determine reliability and 101 users were tested once to determine internal consistency. Reliability, content validity and internal consistency were good. This tool may help rehabilitation specialists determine treatment goals for people who use manual wheelchairs, as well as their readiness and needs for home and community living.

City buses safe transportation for riders who use wheelchairs, pg 225
Scientific papers and reports written on wheelchair transportation and bus safety were reviewed to determine how frequently a large city bus is involved in a severe crash. Investigators discovered that very little information has been published regarding bus safety and crashes. Bus accidents involving riders who used a wheelchair were related to non-collision events, such as abrupt braking, in which improperly used wheelchair tie-downs or rider seat belts resulted in minor injuries. Studies spanning 30 years indicate that the large city bus is a safe form of transportation. Wheelchair riders do not face undo risk of injury in a large city bus.

New test measures the impact of hearing loss on quality of life, pg 235
A speech-in-multitalker-babble test instrument was developed to examine the effects of hearing loss on self-perceived quality of life. Word recognition in quiet and in multitalker babble was measured on 24 listeners with normal hearing and 24 listeners with hearing loss. The test instrument described in this paper will be useful in evaluating the complaint of a patient unable to understand speech in a noisy background. With information about the word-recognition performance of patients in background noise, audiologists can optimize the aural rehabilitation strategy concerning counseling and amplification.

Repeated exposure to sentence material improves word-recognition, pg 241
Study examines the learning effects of repeated presentation of sentence materials in an adaptive paradigm. A set of se
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25-Jul-2003

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