Spinal Cord Injury: Vocational Rehabilitation and Disability Evaluation

The experience of work and employment is a major life area to most people including persons with spinal cord injury (SCI); hence, it is crucial to understand and assess disability, which may affect work. In this chapter, the application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model of the World Health Organization (WHO) and how the ICF model can help us to understand and examine work disability, vocational rehabilitation, and disability evaluation and their application to individuals with SCI will be discussed.