People with Disabilities

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786867707Author Brooke EllisonFormat HardbackPage Count 261Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 449g

Human rights work requires preparation, technical skills and substantive knowledge in order to be effectively conducted. This publication aims to assist United Nations human rights officers and other human rights monitors including from Governments,...

What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today - and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to...

Since the 1970s, the ascendancy of minority identities based on gender, race, and sexuality has transformed the landscape of cultural theory, embracing greater political urgency and relevance. ""Disability Theory"" provides indisputable evidence of the...

Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality takes a humorous, intimate approach to disability through the stories, jokes, performances, and other creative expressions of people with disabilities. Author Teresa Milbrodt explores why individuals can...

As a mainstay of modern life, the media industry disseminates information about disability on a global scale. However, media outlets do not always contribute accurate and positive depictions of disability in print and on the screen. Since previous...

Trusted for four decades by university faculty and relied on by thousands of professionals from diverse fields, Children with Disabilities is the gold-standard text on working effectively with children and families. Now this authoritative resource is in...

Disability-inclusive development is an essential condition for a sustainable future. In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, pledging to leave no one behind in the global efforts to realize the 17 Sustainable...

Parliaments and parliamentarians have a key role to play in promoting and protecting human rights. This Handbook aims to assist parliamentarians and others in efforts to realize the Convention so that persons with disabilities can achieve the transition...

What is the lived experience of previously healthy older adults as they face disability in late life, and how is disability assimilated in their identity? How do prevailing practices facilitate-or limit-options for elders living with new disabilities? To...

Accessible, engaging, and filled with contributions by the country's most celebrated disability experts, this fascinating volume skillfully captures how intellectual disability has been understood from prehistoric times to present. Readers will discover...

Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the ten-year span of their working life together. This is a book about being led by a dog to new places in the world and new places in...

Editors Lewiecki-Wilson and Cellio have put together the first book to focus on the intersecting spaces, both cultural and personal, of disability and mothering. Derived from the Latin for threshold, the word ""liminal"" calls...

The Measure of Manliness examines the proliferation of crippled, maimed, and disabled men in the mid-nineteenth-century novel, showing that far from being marginalized or pathologized, disability was central to Victorian narrative form. Karen Bourrier...

Is there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find out-and the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems to become-no single autism gene has been identified. In Multiple Autisms, Jennifer S. Singh sets out to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972118934Author Beth a Haller Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Advocado PressPublisher Advocado PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

More than a decade ago, Beryl Lieff Benderly wrote in Dancing Without Music about two burning issues of the Deaf community: oralism versus American Sign Language, and the rights of Deaf people. Now, her masterful book is available again. With scientific...

This Level 2 unit is a mandatory unit for the new learning disability award, certificate and pathway of the diploma in health and social care. It has 4 credits (35 learning hours) and is a knowledge unit. This learner workbook includes: * A section on...

Deaf Sport describes the full ramifications of athletics for Deaf people, from the meaning of individual participation to the cultural bonding resulting from their organization. Deaf Sport profiles noted deaf sports figures and the differences particular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874097198Author Nick BosanquetFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint The Social Market FoundationPublisher The Social Market Foundation

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This volume lays out the practical steps families can take to adjust to a loved one's hearing loss. The book shows how the exchange of information can be altered at fundamental levels, what these alterations entail, and how they can affect one's ability...

By conducting interviews with seven deaf children, ages seven to ten, Martha Sheridan offers a fresh look at their private thoughts and feelings in this watershed book. Each child possesses a unique cultural background, and Sheridan communicated with...

Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the nineteenth century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A Place of Their Own brings the...

Dickens, Welty, and Turgenev are only three of the master storytellers in Angels and Outcasts. This remarkable collection of 14 short stories offers insights into what it means to be deaf in a hearing world. The book is divided into three parts: the...

Approximately 2.5 million people in the United States-one percent of the population-have an intellectual disability (previously referred to as mental retardation). These conditions range from genetic disorders such as Down syndrome to disabilities caused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595292547Author Lew ShaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578414027Author Gail FrizzellFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Gail FrizzellPublisher Gail FrizzellWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006757Author Julia Watts BelserFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 539g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595177974Author Nancy M CreweFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 689g

Things No Longer There is a lovingly crafted collection of personal stories about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight. It is also, more broadly, about invisible landscapes - places of the heart that linger long after they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772840346Author Rod MichalkoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba PressWeight(grams) 426g

Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as ""freaks of nature"" and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981341743Author Kim SponaugleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Mountainview PressPublisher Mountainview PressWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973726428Author Carter HammettFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Wordgarden PressPublisher Wordgarden PressWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595212538Author Melissa MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595153572Author Polly HincksFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 349g

In dear elia Mimi Khúc revolutionizes how we understand mental health. Khúc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the university into the maw of the COVID-19 pandemic, reenvisioning mental health through a pedagogy of...

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This innovative...

The relationship between metal and disability is distinctive. Persisting across metal’s sub-genres is a preoccupation with exploring and questioning the boundary that divides the body that has agency from the body that has none. This boundary is one that...