ROAD DESIGN AND THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED; STRATEGY FOR
MAINSTREAMING THEIR NEEDS
BY PRINCE FIDELIS NNADI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ACCIDENT PREVENTION
AND RESCUE INITIATIVE (APRI) AT THE TWO DAYS CONFERENCE OF NGOS
HELD AT NATIONAL MERIT HOUSE ABUJA 16TH
–...
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ROAD DESIGN AND THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED; STRATEGY FOR
MAINSTREAMING THEIR NEEDS
BY PRINCE FIDELIS NNADI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ACCIDENT PREVENTION
AND RESCUE INITIATIVE (APRI) AT THE TWO DAYS CONFERENCE OF NGOS
HELD AT NATIONAL MERIT HOUSE ABUJA 16TH
– 17TH
NOV.
2011
The issue of Road Design and accessibility for disabled people has become central to our
understanding of disability and rehabilitation.
A reading of the literature in these areas as recently
as the 1970s and 1980s would have presented a very different picture of the problems of
disablement and the shape rehabilitation had to take in response to this problem.
Disabled
people s lives were often presented entirely by professional viewpoints (Brechin et al.
1980) and
on the small number of occasions when disabled people were afforded the opportunity to discuss
their lives they were often presented as isolated examples of people struggling with their
conditions , struggling with their daily lives.
At this point, many d
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