ABSTRACT
In June 2001, the U.N. International Seminar on the Measurement of Disability brought together a large number of experts in disability measurement from developed and developing countries to review the current status of methods used in population-based data collection activities to measure disability in national statistical systems (UN 2001). The seminar developed recommendations and priorities to advance work on the measurement of disability. In particular, the seminar improved principles and standard forms for global indicators of disability for use in censuses and helped to build a network of institutions and experts given the broad consensus on the need for population-based measures of disability for countrywide use and international comparisons. The U.N. international seminar experts selected the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and
CONTENTS
2.1 What Individual Functioning Measures ..........................................................................25 2.1.1 The Best Measure: Is There an Elixir of Measurements for Turning an
Assessment into Gold? ............................................................................................25 2.1.1.1 Fitting Measure for the Purpose of the Assistive Technology
Assessment .................................................................................................28 2.1.1.2 From the Measures to the Purposes (Well-Being), from the
Purposes to the Measurers (Multidisciplinary Team) ......................... 29 2.1.1.3 What Is Measured Versus Who Measures: Balancing the Power
of the Assessment .....................................................................................30 2.2 How to Measure Individual Functioning ........................................................................ 31
Outcome of the ATA Process..................................................................................34 2.3 Suggested Measurement Tools for an ATA Process .......................................................35
