People with Disabilities

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563685149Author Jack GannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978841017Author Christine SargentFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954622753Author Octavian RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Gallaudet University PressPublisher Gallaudet University PressWeight(grams) 454g

"Ableism is everywhere, and we cannot continue just burying our heads in the sand. To not stand up to ableism is to contribute to the exclusion and discrimination of Disabled People."Think you know what ableism is? Think again.Welcome to Unlearning...

'A vital call to arms that demands we confront ableism at every level of society.' Sophie Morgan'I have never related to a book more. Disabled or not, you must read it!' Rosie Jones'A sharp, funny, and deeply beautiful memoir that doesn't shy away from...

This book explores the gendered experience of disability. It investigates how women with disabilities fare in society focusing on the experiences of women and their interactions with family, society and medical and legal institutions.Women with...

The late Tobin Siebers was a pioneer of, and one of the most prominent thinkers in, the field of disability studies. His scholarship on sexual and intimate affiliations, the connections between structural location and coalitional politics, and the...

From Unlikely Mavericks, To Movers And ShakersIn Chasing The Impossible, Rachelle Rutherford, the CEO of Kids On The Move, unravels the gripping story behind the rise of this multi-million dollar non-profit dedicated to serving children with...

How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion-and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarityAbleism is embedded in our daily lives. Social life, education, work, and, especially, mental health have been organized around rigid...

Moving towards Inclusive Education: Diverse National Engagements with Paradoxes of Policy and Practice presents perspectives from Asia-Pacific and Europe that have seldom been heard in international debates. While there may be global consensus around...

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HandiLand looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take center stage for the first time. These books take what others regard as weaknesses-for instance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776146550Author Melissa SteynFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Wits University PressPublisher Wits University PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217173563Author Emily LadauFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams) 278g

While the written word is an important means of communication among people, the technological revolution has increased the demands on mental processes involved in the processing of written information, which endangers the quality of life of people who...

Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions describes a criminal justice-mental health nexus that touches every population-juvenile and adult male and female offenders, probationers and parolees, the aging adult prison population, and victims of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987446121Author Maribel SteelFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint BookpodPublisher BookpodWeight(grams) 327g

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563680267Author Carol J. ErtingFormat HardbackPage Count 942Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

Points of Contact brings together contributions by leading writers, artists, scholars, and critics to provide a remarkably broad and consistently engaging look at the intersection of disability and the arts. The contributions include essays and memoirs...

Assessing the social integration of people with disabilities in an intra-culturally valid yet cross-culturally replicable and comparative manner is a crucial but challenging tasks for policy makers across the EU. Stigma has been shown to interfere with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425191030Author Ramesh FerrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

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 Unlikely Mavericks, To Movers And ShakersIn Chasing The Impossible, Rachelle Rutherford, the CEO of Kids On The Move, unravels the gripping story behind the rise of this multi-million dollar non-profit dedicated to serving children with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460297223Author Tara Geraghty-EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460297230Author Tara Geraghty-EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 152g

This is the first book to challenge the concept of paid work for disabled people as a means to 'independence' and 'self determination'. Recent attempts in many countries to increase the employment rates of disabled people have actually led to an erosion...

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions. It presents a critical interpretation of selected...

This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to illuminate the voices of people with disabilities from Sub-Saharan Africa. Disability literature is largely dominated by scholars and studies from the Global North, and these studies are largely informed by Global...

Although the field of disability services and societal understanding of disability issues have advanced in recent decades there remain controversial subjects and unresolved disputes. These cover a wide spectrum from legislation impacting the entire...

Disability is an increasingly vital contemporary issue in British social policy and particularly so in the area of education. "Education, Disability and Social Policy" brings together for the first time unique perspectives from leading thinkers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781886591288Author Richard Dicks, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Blue Creek PressPublisher Blue Creek PressWeight(grams) 108g

This edited volume brings together contributions on disability studies organized around two themes: literary and sociological aspects. The contributors include academics, disability activists, and researchers from within and outside the Indian periphery...

This volume offers a rare mix of interpretive chapters and primary sources that will be of value to anyone interested in learning about important disability-related issues from the perspective of disabled people themselves. In the 21st century,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119445820Author Nandita ChakravertiFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Storymirror Infotech Pvt LtdPublisher Storymirror Infotech Pvt LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915271273Author Yenn PurkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Lived Places PublishingPublisher Lived Places PublishingWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933750828Author Lonnie PacelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Pacelli PublishingPublisher Pacelli PublishingWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

According to Edward Shorter, just forty years ago the institutions housing people with mental retardation (MR) had become a national scandal. The mentally retarded who lived at home were largely isolated and a source of family shame. Although some social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807019238Author Jessica SliceFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 369g

This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health and Education and bring...