ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to present anthropometry as a set of measuring techniques and methods, and to prove its usefulness for the needs of the disabled. Anthropometry originates from anthropology and is directed towards obtaining the measurements of man. Anthropology is the science about man. It deals with the changeability of physical characteristics of man in time and space, particularly with race differentiation, individuals’ differentiation, ontogenesis and phylogenesis. In the English and American approach anthropology embraces the complete knowledge of man and can be divided into physical (biological) anthropology and cultural anthropology. There are other types of anthropology including social and criminal.
