People with Disabilities

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...

Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition. Autism is a 'social disorder', defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607854784Author Anna Ercoli SchnitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Michigan Publishing ServicesPublisher Michigan Publishing ServicesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941749357Author David M HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint 4-P PublishingPublisher 4-P PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941269213Author Stephanie S RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Against the Grain, LLCPublisher Against the Grain, LLCWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948134019Author David H HendricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Pentucket PublishingPublisher Pentucket PublishingWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666741698Author Floyd MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 345g

Come, Let Me Guide You explores the intimate communication between author Susan Krieger and her guide dog Teela over the ten-year span of their working life together. This is a book about being led by a dog to new places in the world and new places in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498095549Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 1102g

The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work of history tracks the changes both in the education of and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics include attitudes toward the deaf in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786867707Author Brooke EllisonFormat HardbackPage Count 261Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 147mm *...

Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality takes a humorous, intimate approach to disability through the stories, jokes, performances, and other creative expressions of people with disabilities. Author Teresa Milbrodt explores why individuals can...

A mainstay of modern life, the global media gives out information about disabilities that is often inaccurate or negative and perpetuates oppressive stigmas and discrimination. In response to representations that have been incomplete, misguided or...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930323592Author Beryl Lieff BenderlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S...

This Level 2 unit is a mandatory unit for the new learning disability award, certificate and pathway of the diploma in health and social care. It has 4 credits (35 learning hours) and is a knowledge unit. This learner workbook includes: * A section on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563681189Author Jan BransonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

This volume lays out the practical steps families can take to adjust to a loved one's hearing loss. The book shows how the exchange of information can be altered at fundamental levels, what these alterations entail, and how they can affect one's ability...

By conducting interviews with seven deaf children, ages seven to ten, Martha Sheridan offers a fresh look at their private thoughts and feelings in this watershed book. Each child possesses a unique cultural background, and Sheridan communicated with...

Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the nineteenth century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A Place of Their Own brings the...

Approximately 2.5 million people in the United States--one percent of the population--have an intellectual disability (previously referred to as mental retardation). These conditions range from genetic disorders such as Down syndrome to disabilities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578414027Author Gail FrizzellFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Gail FrizzellPublisher Gail FrizzellWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Things No Longer There is a lovingly crafted collection of personal stories about the author's struggle toward enlightenment while losing her eyesight. It is also, more broadly, about invisible landscapes - places of the heart that linger long after they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772840346Author Rod MichalkoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba PressWeight(grams) 426g

Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as ""freaks of nature"" and ""Oriental curiosities."" More...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981341743Author Kim SponaugleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Mountainview PressPublisher Mountainview PressWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973726428Author Carter HammettFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Wordgarden PressPublisher Wordgarden PressWeight(grams) 154g

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This innovative...