People with Disabilities

First published in 1986, this book reviews research on the role parents play in fostering the early development of children with mental handicaps. Professionals and parents must work together to give such children the chance of living as ordinary lives...

What happens when a group traditionally defined as lacking the necessary capacities of citizenship is targeted by government programs that have made 'citizenship inclusion' their main goal? Combining theoretical perspectives of political philosophy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375704079Author Oliver SacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

Social media is popularly seen as an important media for people with disability in terms of communication, exchange and activism. These sites potentially increase both employment and leisure opportunities for one of the most traditionally isolated groups...

Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN Opinion. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891284741Author William Henry JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint American Printing House for the BlindPublisher American Printing House for...

This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives.The book comprises 15 chapters developed across three parts and, informed...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739608606Author Sarah FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint MartelloPublisher MartelloDimensions(mm) 195mm * 129mm * 15mm

Fleeing from Nazi Europe in the late 1930s, Austrian-born Karl Koenig and his colleagues founded the first Camphill community, for children with special needs, outside Aberdeen in the north of Scotland. The seven essays by Koenig in this book explain the...

In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before...

At the age of three, Eileen Cronin first realised that only she did not have legs. Her boisterous Catholic family accepted her situation as "God's will", treating her no differently than her ten siblings. But starting school, even wearing prosthetics,...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the social and spatial experiences of people with dwarfism, an impairment that results in a person being no taller than 4' 10". This book engages with the concept that dwarfism's most prominent feature - body...

The atonement-where God in Jesus Christ addresses sin and the whole of the human predicament-lies at the heart of the Christian faith and life. Its saving power is for all people, and yet a deep hesitancy has prevented meaningful discussion of the cross'...

Learning through play is a well-established principle that underpins much educational practice, yet it is often overlooked in association with children with autistic spectrum disorders. This book considers the wide-ranging benefits of developing play and...

The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an international view of the subject, this wide-ranging collection shows that...

This co-authored text critically explores the key findings of the Living Life to the Fullest project - a project that has explored the lives, thoughts, hopes and aspirations of disabled young people living with life-limiting and life-threatening...

In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon...

Filmmakers have often encouraged us to regard people with physical disabilities in terms of pity, awe, humor, or fearas ""Others"" who somehow deserve to be isolated from the rest of society. In this first history of the portrayal of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852390Author Bethany Mckinne FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 314gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 154mm...

In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism. Kim uses the concept of curative violence to question the...

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 *...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse cultural representations and deployments of disability as they...

Just Care is Akemi Nishida's thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898401Author M. Leona GodinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

A comprehensive assessment of the field of Disability Studies that presents beyond the medical to dig into the meaning From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere...

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access.Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has...

With contributions from leading scholars in the USA, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Japan, India, Australia and Jordan, this text looks at the study of disablity within the context of the "postmodern" world of the 21st century. Organized into three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807073315Author Terry GallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425715Author Harriet McBryde JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Defining the role of a job coach, this book sets out EU-wide training standards for helping people with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful employment.The book includes the perspectives of both people with disabilities and their job coaches,...

Disability is an increasingly vital contemporary issue in British social policy especially in education. Education, disability and social policy brings together for the first time unique perspectives from leading thinkers including senior academics,...

Boldly claiming a space where people with disabilities tell the stories of their own lives-not other's stories about them-About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking not only to people...

This second edition of Making an Entrance is a practical and thought-provoking introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non-disabled students, updated with expanded coverage, new and revised exercises, and chapters that cover post-pandemic and...

Early in the war, when faced with an acute shortage of accommodation for evacuees, a government official questioned whether disabled children were 'worth saving'. This book examines how the evacuation in England was planned, executed and evaluated for...

With contributions from distinguished authors in 14 countries across 5 continents, this book provides a unique transnational perspective on intellectual disability in the twentieth century. Each chapter outlines different policies and practices, and...

While many deaf organizations around the world have adopted an ethno-linguistic framing of deafness, the meanings and consequences of this perspective vary across cultural contexts, and relatively little scholarship exists that explores this framework...

Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different...

Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures"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...

Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English language...