People with Disabilities

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013335Author Ben MattlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Provides 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...

Developing 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,...

Using 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 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...

There 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...

-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...

When 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...

An 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...

New 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...

This 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...

The 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...

Many 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...

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...

This 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...

A 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 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...

Midget, feeble-minded, crippled, lame, and insane: these terms and the historical photographs that accompany them may seem shocking to present-day audiences. A young woman with no arms wears a sequined tutu and smiles for the camera as she smokes a...

First 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138085244Author Karen SoldaticFormat HardbackImprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

This 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...

Apologies 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

First 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...

This 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...

This 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...

When 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...

Eugene 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...

Heather 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...

The 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...

This 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 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...

Despite 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...

Sports 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...

In 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...

Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. Dagmar Herzog documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers...

For 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...

Disability and Digital Television Cultures offers an important addition to scholarly studies at the intersection of disability and media, examining disability in the context of digital television access, representation and reception.Television, as a...

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...