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How to Conduct Ethnographies of Institutions for People with Cognitive Difficulties by Kjeld Hogsbro 9781138495357
RRP: €160.65€140.04This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the methodological, theoretical, and meta-theoretical considerations and guidelines involved in undertaking institutional ethnographic work involving people with cognitive and communicative disabilities. ... -
Disabled People and Economic Needs in the Developing World: A Political Perspective from Jordan by Majid Turmusani 9781138378766
RRP: €55.92€48.75This book explores the economic situation of disabled people in developing countries focusing on rehabilitation and uses particpatory framework to community development. Although dealing specifically with a case study from Jordan, this needs assessment... -
The Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling Michael T. Hartley 9780826139030
RRP: €89.24€72.03The most current book available on rehabilitation counseling!This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to rehabilitation counseling, encompassing its history, values, knowledge, skills, and links to the disability community. Underscoring disability... -
Opening the Door: A Study of New Policies for the Mentally Handicapped by Kathleen Jones 9781032538648
RRP: €109.47€95.44First published in 1975, Opening the Door is a survey of policies and problems in services for the mentally handicapped. It describes the improvements which have taken place since 1969, when the inquiry into conditions of patients at Ely hospital in... -
Narrating the Many Autisms: Identity, Agency, Mattering by Anna Stenning 9780367478384
RRP: €160.65€140.04Autism is a profoundly contested idea. The focus of this book is not what autism is or what autistic people are, but rather, it grapples with the central question: what does it take for autistic people to participate in a shared world as equals with... -
Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities by Hanna Egard 9780367637309
RRP: €46.40€40.72Provides a new and innovative approach through an ethnographic and people-centred conceptualization of “access”, and a consideration of why social change appears to be slowing down, hampered or even sidestepped. Provides empirical studies but also... -
Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age by Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 9781517909130
RRP: €105.91€91.89Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality,... -
Disability Representation in Film, TV, and Print Media by Michael S. Jeffress 9781032066332
RRP: €47.59€41.72Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions.It contains 13 newly... -
Signs and Voices: Deaf Culture, Identity, Language, and Arts Kristin A. Lindgren 9781563685750
RRP: €76.16€72.91Signs and Voices addresses the effects of a range of modern scientific and social developments - such as cochlear implants, genetic engineering, and educational mainstreaming - on deaf culture. The book is split into three sections, the first focusing on... -
Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism by Erin Pritchard 9781032465944
RRP: €148.75€128.35There exist problematic attitudes and beliefs about dwarfism that have rarely been challenged, but continue to construct people with dwarfism as an inferior group within society. This book introduces the critical term ‘midgetism’, which the author has... -
Disability and International Development: A Guide for Students and Practitioners by David Cobley 9781032187488
RRP: €148.75€128.35-Written in a style that is engaging and accessible to a wide range of readers, from students to practitioners -Each chapter includes reflection exercises, discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, and the case studies include examples... -
The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future by Amanda Apgar 9780472075690
€88.51When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives to make sense of their... -
Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters by Petra Kuppers 9781517911881
RRP: €110.67€95.96An autoethnographic discussion of the speculative and fantastical elements of performance In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in... -
Certified Rehabilitation Counselor Examination Preparation by Fong Chan 9780826158246
RRP: €72.58€58.81New updates, practices, and tips to pass the exam! Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers.This compact resource-noted for its quality and credibility-delivers a comprehensive overview of the CRC exam to help graduate... -
Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity: Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories by Alexis Padilla 9780367540388
RRP: €44.02€38.71This interdisciplinary volume links dis/ability and agency by exploring LatDisCrit's theory and activist emancipatory practice. It uses the author's experiential and analytical views as a blind brown Latinx engaged scholar and activist from the global... -
Autism and COVID-19: Strategies for Supporters to Help Autistics and Their Families by Matthew Bennett 9781804550342
RRP: €57.11€47.62The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and potentially ever-lasting impact on our economy, society, and the way that we live. In response to this pandemic there has been a plethora of research published about COVID-19. However, within this fast-growing... -
Other-person-ness And The Person With Profound Disabilities by Pia Matthews 9781032255453
RRP: €148.75€128.35Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seek to think or act like us. Positioning profound disability in this way immediately sets up a 'them' and... -
Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science by Jennifer S. Singh 9780816698318
RRP: €24.98€21.86Is 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... -
International Disability Rights Advocacy: Languages of Moral Knowledge and Institutional Critique by Daniel Pateisky 9780367686444
RRP: €46.40€40.72This book provides insight into the globally interlinked disability rights community and its political efforts today. By analysing what disability rights activism contributes to a global power apparatus of disability-related knowledge, it demonstrates... -
Father of the Blind by Andrew Norman
RRP: €20.22€15.40A biography of the man who founded St Dunstan's for blinded service personnelBook InformationISBN 9780752451824Author Andrew NormanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 430g -
Disability Rhetoric by Jay Timothy Dolmage
€41.82Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range... -
The Disabled Schoolchild: A Study of Integration in Primary Schools by Anderson Elizabeth M.
RRP: €42.83€38.19First published in 1973, this book considers the differences between mainstream schools and special educational needs schools, for children with learning disabilities. It contains a wealth of research data, case history material and reference to existing... -
Pain and Shock in America - Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities by Jan Nisbet
RRP: €38.08€32.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684580743Author Jan NisbetFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Brandeis University PressPublisher Brandeis University Press -
Disability and Social Justice in Kenya: Scholars, Policymakers, and Activists in Conversation by Nina Berman
€44.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472055357Author Nina BermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)... -
Women With Disabilities as Agents of Peace, Change and Rights: Experiences from Sri Lanka by Karen Soldatic
RRP: €160.65€139.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138085244Author Karen SoldaticFormat HardbackImprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
Disability and Labour in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Comparative Perspectives by Radu Harald Dinu
RRP: €148.75€128.35This volume puts disability and labour at the centre of historical enquiry. It offers fresh perspectives on the history of disability and labour in the twentieth century and highlights the need to address the topic beyond regional boundaries. Bringing... -
Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social Welfare by Todd Carmody
RRP: €103.53€90.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478015444Author Todd CarmodyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Integration of Handicapped Children in Society by James Loring
RRP: €38.07€33.71First published in 1975, this book looks at the place of children with handicaps in society, at that time. It argues that in the thirty years previous, a great deal of progress was made in the field of rehabilitation but that the separation between... -
Disability and Social Change: A Progressive Canadian Approach by Jeanette Robertson
RRP: €26.18€21.40This edited collection uses a critical theory perspective and draws on expertise from a range of contemporary policy and practice areas. Contributors include people with disabilities, family members, researchers, academics and practitioners. This book is... -
Identity Construction and Illness Narratives in Persons with Disabilities by Chalotte Glintborg
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity. Once diagnosed with a disability, there is a risk that this label can become the primary status both for the person diagnosed as well as for their family. This... -
The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future by Amanda Apgar
€32.57When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives to make sense of their... -
Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley by Ravi Malhotra
RRP: €33.31€28.73Eugene T. Kingsley led an extraordinary life: he was once described as "one of the most dangerous men in Canada." In 1890, Kingsley was working as a railway brakeman in Montana when an accident left him a double amputee, and politically... -
Maternity Rolls: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Disability by Heather Kuttai
RRP: €22.55€18.60Heather Kuttai is a 40-year-old white woman. She is married & is the mother of two children. However, her life is not as conventional as it first appears: Heather is a paraplegic. Heather's experiences as a woman with a disability experiencing... -
Hearing Impairment and Hearing Disability: Towards a Paradigm Change in Hearing Services by Anthony Hogan
RRP: €46.40€40.72The purpose of this book is to challenge people (service providers, people with a hearing disability and those who advocate for them) to reconsider the way western society thinks about hearing disability and the way it seeks to 'include them’. It... -
Disabled People and Economic Needs in the Developing World: A Political Perspective from Jordan by Majid Turmusani
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book explores the economic situation of disabled people in developing countries focusing on rehabilitation and uses particpatory framework to community development. Although dealing specifically with a case study from Jordan, this needs assessment... -
Disabled people and employment: A review of research and development work by Helen Barnes
RRP: €26.17€20.48Disabled people and employment is a review of research and development initiatives intended to help disabled people get or stay in work, which takes the views of disabled people themselves as a yardstick by which to assess good practice. Drawing on... -
Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform by David Pettinicchio
RRP: €28.55€24.80Despite 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... -
Communication, Sport and Disability: The Case of Power Soccer Michael S. Jeffress 9781138053588
RRP: €51.16€44.73Sports are ubiquitous in American society, and given their prominence in the culture, it is easy to understand how most youth in the United States face pressure to participate in organized sports. But what does this mean for the hundreds of thousands of... -
Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France by Therese-Adele Husson
RRP: €38.08€24.09In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and her hopes for the future. Through extensive research and scholarly... -
Working for a living?: Employment, benefits and the living standards of disabled people Helen Barnes (Policy Studies Institute) 9781861341860
RRP: €26.17€20.48For too long, disabled people in Britain have been denied access to employment. Now paid work is being presented as the only route out of poverty and dependence on the state. What is the reality? Working for a living? asks: Does paid work bring...