Rehabilitation Services for Persons with Special Needs
Abstract In cases where daily living functioning, capacity and ability are suddenly lost or become deficient, rehabilitation services are required to reduce the effect of disability. Persons with special needs require rehabilitation services in form of specially designed programmes to help them re-adjust or compensate for lost capacity/ability and daily living functioning. Where persons who otherwise had the ability to see or hear eventually become blind or deaf, or when persons who have lived and used their limbs suddenly lose any of such limbs (legs or hands), they do require rehabilitation services to re-adjust to daily living functioning. This paper focuses on the types of rehabilitation services provisions for persons with special needs. Therefore, this paper discusses the conceptual meaning of persons with special needs, meaning of rehabilitation, principles of rehabilitation, medical rehabilitation, psychosocial rehabilitation, educational rehabilitation and vocational rehabi