Rehabilitation science

An interdisciplinary field focused on understanding and improving function, independence, and quality of life for people with disabilities, injuries, or chronic conditions. Rehabilitation science draws on medicine, engineering, psychology, and social science to develop interventions, therapies, and technologies that restore or compensate for lost abilities. In accessibility, rehabilitation science contributes clinical outcome measures, evidence-based assessment tools, and frameworks for understanding how people adapt to and recover from impairments — knowledge essential for designing effective assistive technologies.