“…Although not all the definitions specified that social participation required contact with others, further analyses reveal that all but one definition (Glass & Balfour, 2003) either stressed the dimensions or underlying sub-dimensions of social activities, social roles, social interaction, community or society, or others. This is consistent with previous work on the conceptualization of social participation (Lariviere, 2008;Mars et al, 2008;Raymond, Gagné, Sévigny, & Tourigny, 2008) and conceptual models (Fougeyrollas et al, 1998;Glass & Balfour, 2003). For example, according to the Disability Creation Process model (Fougeyrollas et al, 1998), social participation includes activities and roles which result from the interaction of individual factors (e.g., personal characteristics, organic systems, and capabilities) with the physical and social environment.…”