People with Disabilities

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 104Imprint Pacelli PublishingPublisher Pacelli PublishingWeight(grams) 133g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946195272Author Shelly ChristensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Inclusion InnovationsPublisher Inclusion InnovationsWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665762755Author Clementine Marianna JoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

This volume in the SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores issues involving disability through the life course, and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series which examines topics central to the lives of individuals...

Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality. Bringing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426901782Author Wendy CrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926708171Author Diane DriedgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China. In this summary volume and the two accompanying volumes that follow, individuals with an intellectual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760644222Author Micheline LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Quarterly EssayPublisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 166g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789811550072Author William P AlfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 489Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954753914Author Terry ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Workbook PressPublisher Workbook PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665752510Author Esther DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 186g