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Journal of Disability Policy Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, 114-121 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/104420730101200209
© 2001 Hammill Institute on Disabilities

Assessing Scientific Measures of Disability

Harlan Hahn

University of Southern California

Angela Pool Hegamin

University of California, Los Angeles

In recent years, there has been an intense drive to promote quantitative measures of disability. Despite evidence demonstrating the existence of social and political dimensions of disability, medical definitions, emphasizing individual functional capacity, have tended to prevail. The present article reviews and critiques existing and emerging disability measures and discusses methodological alternatives based on the life experiences of disabled people as a strategy for improving the scientific measurement of disability.


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