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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 87-93Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/17549500903568476
Keywords
International Classification of Functioning Disability, and Health (ICF); professional practice; ethics; World Health Organization
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The World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) is a tool that was developed to improve the functional health of the world's people. The ICF is meant to be more than simply a better way to classify functional limitations. WHO seeks to change the way people view disability. This article discusses the ethical guidelines listed in the ICF and how they can be used by speech-language pathologists to aspire to a fuller realization of the ethical and moral aspects of their vocation. This realization includes an argument that the disability rights struggle is part of an overall quest for the basic human rights of all people.
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