People with Disabilities

This open access book brings together oral histories that record the experiences of individuals with intellectual disabilities in Shanghai as they participate in their careers. Employees with intellectual disabilities describe their experiences seeking,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771338332Author Diane DriedgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint Inanna Publications and Education Inc.Publisher Inanna Publications and Education Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984598335Author Edd James M BolesFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Vanishing Past PressPublisher Vanishing Past PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

While HIV spreads among people with severe mental illness for the same reasons it does in the general population, there are specific ways in which mental illness is associated with elevated HIV risk. Every mental health institution or program now has to...

This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world.Taking the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the UN Convention of the Rights...

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do not enjoy.The disability rights movement does not accept the use of disability to create limits on...

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The first volume presents a collection of exciting papers exploring several new areas of disability research. The contributions include: examination of the media representation of disability and coverage of disability policy issues which gives an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807072806Author Clare DunsfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

Video games are both physically and cognitively demanding-so what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem at odds, Ability Machines illuminates just how vital video games are to understanding our bodies and...

Disability policy has become an increasingly important issue in countries around the world. More and more, as populations are exposed to war and civil conflicts, natural disasters, environmental poisons along with the effects of normal aging, accidents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214787Author Allyson DayFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

What is the impact of an infant's diminished hearing on the infant and its parents? How does communication develop in cases of diminished hearing? How does diminished hearing affect social and cognitive development? What types of early interventions can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013274114Author Steven K KappFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Community Disability Services is an edited text designed to be used by education providers delivering short and long courses to Disability Studies students and by current practitioners working in community disability services. In its primary role of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258057Author Allyson DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Brantlinger discusses the current medical and legal trends in sterilization with special emphasis on people with disabilities. She explores the issues surrounding sterilization decisions from the perspectives of judges, lawyers, social workers, doctors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578954387Author Barbara Bush ForlettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Barbara Bush ForlettaPublisher Barbara Bush ForlettaWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578575285Author Shirl Crimmins SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Shirl Crimmins SmithPublisher Shirl Crimmins SmithWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781312609488Author Michael DowFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 857g

Combining critical policy analysis with biographical accounts, this book provides a socio-historical account of the changing treatment of disabled people in Britain from the 1940s to the present day. It asks whether life has really changed for disabled...

COVID-19 has once again illuminated the ways in which health risks and negative health outcomes are tied to economic and social inequalities. Disabled people rank among those most disadvantaged in terms of education, income, and social inclusion and this...

First published in 1990, this book was the first informed study to focus on care within the voluntary sector. Written with the child in mind, it is a sensitive work which explores the administration, strategy, and problems facing carers in children's...

First published in 1985, this book considers the financial consequences of parents and other relatives caring for severely disabled children at home. At the time of publication little reliable information was available on the costs incurred by 'informal...

Disability is often described in a way that suggests that it is a permanent and relatively stable state. Even when it is described as being socially constructed, the implication is that impairment leads to a permanent status of being 'disabled'. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616403973Author Helen KellerFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is about being disabled and being poor and the social, cultural and political processes that link these two aspects of living. Environmental barriers, limited access to services and discriminatory...

Disability Welfare Policy in Europe:Cognitive Disability and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persons with cognitive disabilities and their families. Written from a Disability Studies perspective, this...

When confronted with the large amount of research about the autism spectrum one can be forgiven for believing that every conceivable aspect has been studied. However, despite the abundance of research, there still remains several autism topics that are...

The current literature regarding employment among persons with disabilities produces research results dependent on definitions of work disability, the discipline within which research takes places, the model or paradigm of disability in which the...

Current research in Sociology of Disability has a tendency to assume that very little written in this area until the last 20 years. However, this is not always the case. In part the lack of awareness of older writing occurs because of the ease of...

This volume of "Research in Social Science and Disability" focuses attention on the dual themes of theory and methodology that must form a basis for studies of impairment and disability. It addresses issues that include: critiques of current concepts of...

Cripping Girlhood offers a new theorization of disabled girlhood, tracing how and why representations of disabled girls emerge with frequency in twenty-first century U.S. media culture. It uncovers how the exceptional figure of the disabled girl most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887440545Author Katie TastromFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666741681Author Floyd MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504376808Author Judith Anne DentFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm *...

Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights. Since then, driven by the Tory government's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605206882Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627878180Author Katherine SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint WheatmarkPublisher WheatmarkWeight(grams) 152g

Video games are both physically and cognitively demanding-so what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem at odds, Ability Machines illuminates just how vital video games are to understanding our bodies and...