People with Disabilities

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930323745Author David StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930323172Author Trent BatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

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...

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

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

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...

In Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews and survey responses, Price demonstrates that...

The contributions in this book shed critical light on the shaping, negotiation, and creation of inclusive conditions of local authorities and localities. The authors analyse policy programs and reflect on their inclusive or exclusive effects in European...

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...

"Minding the gap" while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable ramp to embark and disembark or carefully mapping out a custom route...

This publication covers all major aspects of social policy in relation to disability in contemporary Ireland. New approaches to policy making, influenced by concepts of rights, partnership and integration, have led to major changes in service provision...

A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project,...

From the Periphery consists of nearly forty first-person narratives from activists and everyday people who describe what it's like to be treated differently by society because of their disabilities. Their stories are raw and painful but also surprisingly...

The Transition to Retirement (TTR) program aims to help older people with long-term disability gradually build an active and socially inclusive retirement lifestyle through volunteering and participating in mainstream community groups. Members of these...

Boldly claiming a space in which people with disabilities can be seen and heard as they are-not as others perceive them-About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking not only to those with...

The true story of a Chicago gang member who was shot and paralyzed and became a world-class wheelchair athleteThe true story of a Chicago gang member who was shot and paralyzed and became a world-class wheelchair athleteReviews"A compelling and richly...

This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517902650Author Joel Michael ReynoldsFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota...

Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence insists, however, that silence can be a...

Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine the wellbeing of this population. The U.S. is, thus, a policy innovator and laggard in this regard. In...

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...

Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics. Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements...

In Radical Health Julie Avril Minich examines the potential of Latinx expressive culture to intervene in contemporary health politics, elaborating how Latinx artists have critiqued ideologies of health that frame wellbeing in terms of personal behavior...

In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which...