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This paper deals with the concept of CBR as seen by a section of practitioners in the Asia Pacific region. In their view, CBR is a form of a community development programme onto which different components of rehabilitation are grafted, rather than a specialised programme meant exclusively for disabled people. In such a programme, the change in the community's behaviour towards disabled people is more vital to promote inclusion than changes in the disabled people themselves. The paper also deals with the major constraints to the wider application of CBR