People with Disabilities

Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition. Autism is a 'social disorder', defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607854784Author Anna Ercoli SchnitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Michigan Publishing ServicesPublisher Michigan Publishing ServicesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941749357Author David M HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint 4-P PublishingPublisher 4-P PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941269213Author Stephanie S RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Against the Grain, LLCPublisher Against the Grain, LLCWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948134019Author David H HendricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Pentucket PublishingPublisher Pentucket PublishingWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666741698Author Floyd MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 345g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498095549Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 1102g

The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This historical volume tracks the changes in education and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics covered include the attitudes toward the deaf in Europe...

Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream is a collaborative effort to tell the life story of Jon A. Feucht, a man who was born with a form of cerebral palsy that left him reliant on a wheelchair for mobility, with limited use of his...

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) 449gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 147mm *...

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...

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 9780930323592Author Beryl Lieff BenderlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S...

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)...

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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 *...

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 ""Oriental curiosities."" More...

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) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court...