We performed the rehabilitation care for the disabled persons and preliminary study for the Community Based Rehabilitation(CBR) project around Kangwon-Don community at fourteen times since July 1987 to July 1993, which was composed of medical care, speech evaluation, counselling for education, psychological counselling, physical and occupational therapy, vocational counselling and dermographic research for the disabled. We obtained the basic data from this work conclusively to establish the most appropriate and helpful CBR project for this community.

The results were as follows:

1) The total number of registered disabled persons in this community consulted to CBR project was 6,801 and the prevalence rate was 0.7% of the population.

2) The total number who was consulted to this project was 1358, male 920(68%) and female 438(32%). The most common age was the sixth decade as 20%. The physically disabled persons were counted to 61% as the most common type among the disabled.

3) Amputation was the most frequent cause of the physically disabled as 21% and next, cerebral palsy, brain injury, spinal cord injury.

4) Medical care and medication among the contents of rehabilitational service was the most common desire and service as 866(64%), followed by speech evaluation and counselling for education as 352, psychological counselling as 292, physical and occupational therapy as 245, vocational counselling as 135.

5) For successful CBR project in Kangwon-Do, rehabilitation program for amputee and cerebral palsy should be established more practically and the existing program must be modified to more effective and well organized plans.

6) Further CBR project for disabled persons should be established according to the characteristics for each local community.