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Active Support: Enabling and Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities by Jim Mansell
RRP: $58.78$57.18Active Support is a proven model of care that enables and empowers people with intellectual disabilities to participate fully in all aspects of their lives. This evidence-based approach is particularly effective for working with people with more severe... -
Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm Selwyn Goldsmith 9780750634427
RRP: $262.50$227.35Selwyn Goldsmith's Designing for the Disabled has, since it was first published in 1963, been a bible for practising architects around the world. Now, as a new book with a radical new vision, comes his Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm... -
The Art and Science of Teaching Orientation and Mobility to Persons with Visual Impairments by William Henry Jacobson 9780891284741
$135.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891284741Author William Henry JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint American Printing House for the BlindPublisher American Printing House for... -
The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies by Martin F. Norden 9780813521046
RRP: $69.30$51.85Filmmakers have often encouraged us to regard people with physical disabilities in terms of pity, awe, humor, or fearas ""Others"" who somehow deserve to be isolated from the rest of society. In this first history of the portrayal of... -
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine Harry Parker 9781788163101
RRP: $31.48$23.00*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity and how robotics and AI are altering our... -
A Mismatch of Salience: Explorations from the Nature of Autism from Theory to Practice by Damian Milton 9781911028765
$50.88A Mismatch of Salience brings together a range of Damian Milton's writings that span more than a decade. The book explores the communication and understanding difficulties that can create barriers between people on the autism spectrum and neurotypical... -
Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness by Selina Mills 9781848856905
RRP: $42.00$32.17Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? And why is blindness so frightening? In this fascinating... -
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528649Author Shayda KafaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
Four Fingers and Thirteen Toes by Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds 9781438942995
$25.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438942995Author Rosaleen Moriarty-SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 364gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Humanity Test: Disability, therapy and society by John Barton 9781915220127
RRP: $39.88$37.61John Barton used to live in the non-disabled world. Then he developed symptoms of an obscure inherited condition that affected his mobility, closely followed by Parkinson's disease. And suddenly he found himself propelled into the kingdom of the disabled... -
Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future by Charlie Hertzog Young
RRP: $27.28$17.47'Utterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive' GEORGE MONBIOT'This extraordinary book, written with startling honesty and vulnerability, traces Charlie's remarkable journey from deep despair to resistance, reconnection and... -
How to Break Bad News to People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Guide for Carers and Professionals by Irene Tuffrey-Wijne 9781849052801 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.48$17.09This book offers unique and flexible guidelines that can be used by practitioners to ease the process of breaking bad news to people with intellectual disabilities. The guidelines, which are adaptable to individual communication ability and level of... -
How to Break Bad News to People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Guide for Carers and Professionals by Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
RRP: $52.48$49.94This book offers unique and flexible guidelines that can be used by practitioners to ease the process of breaking bad news to people with intellectual disabilities. The guidelines, which are adaptable to individual communication ability and level of... -
Sensory-Being for Sensory Beings: Creating Entrancing Sensory Experiences Joanna Grace 9781911186113
RRP: $90.28$78.94Sensory-being: the enveloping of natural presentness and awareness in an unfolding sensory moment. Sensory Beings: people whose experience of the world, and meaning within it, is primarily sensory. Often these are people who do not have access to... -
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life by Harriet McBryde Johnson 9780312425715
RRP: $35.68$27.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425715Author Harriet McBryde JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 363g -
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland 9780593793466
RRP: $65.10$39.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593793466Author Andrew LelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Foundations of Orientation and Mobility, 3rd Edition: Volume 2, Instructional Strategies and Practical Applications by William R Wiener 9780891284611
RRP: $168.00$152.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891284611Author William R WienerFormat HardbackPage Count 854Imprint American Printing House for the BlindPublisher American Printing House for the... -
I'm Only In It for the Parking: Life and laughter from the priority seats by Lost Voice Guy aka Lee Ridley
RRP: $20.98$13.69AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'S 'ABILITY''A truly eye-opening book from a fantastic comedian.' ADAM KAY'Comedy genius... The funniest book I've read in years.' DAVID WALLIAMS_______________Lee Ridley won the hearts and minds of the nation on Britain's Got Talent... -
Every Cripple a Superhero by Christoph Keller 9781802060997
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times'A defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page' Morning Star'A skilful act of literary witness, sharp, moving and funny' Joanne Limburg 'Christoph Keller .... -
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Ben Mattlin 9780807013335
RRP: $41.98$28.04Apologies 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 -
Counselling People with Communication Problems by Peggy Dalton 9780803988958
RRP: $94.48$82.91This step-by-step guide is for those working with people who experience disorders of speech, language, voice and fluency. The author evaluates the forms of counselling that are currently practised alongside direct treatment of the disorders themselves,... -
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body by Lennard J. Davis
$36.23In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself.Enforcing... -
Autism & Education: The Way I See It: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know by Temple Grandin 9781957984070
RRP: $37.70$23.35Dr. Temple Grandin discusses the real issues that parents, teachers, and kids face every day. Here is a concise handbook that illustrates what Temple has found to work in the field of education. Topics include: The importance of early intervention... -
Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader Jos Boys 9781138676435
RRP: $115.48$101.05Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader takes a groundbreaking approach to exploring the interconnections between disability, architecture and cities. The contributions come from architecture, geography, anthropology, health studies, English language... -
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It Greg Marshall 9781398716346
RRP: $39.88$26.78* A MOST-ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ SELECTED BY * Washington Post *Buzzfeed * Bustle * The Advocate * LitHub * Bookriot * Electric Literature * and more!*A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets-as... -
Disability and the Tudors: All the King's Fools by Phillipa Vincent-Connolly 9781526720054
RRP: $52.50$37.00Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death before the advent of modern medicine, so how did a society... -
Disability: The Basics Tom Shakespeare 9781138651395
RRP: $41.98$37.15Disability: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to disability which explores the broad historical, social, environmental, economic and legal factors which affect the experiences of those living with an impairment or illness in... -
Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited by Tom Shakespeare 9780415527613
RRP: $88.18$77.18Over the last forty years, the field of disability studies has emerged from the political activism of disabled people. In this challenging review of the field, leading disability academic and activist Tom Shakespeare argues that disability research needs... -
In Search of Madness: A psychiatrist's travels through the history of mental illness by Brendan Kelly 9780717193783
RRP: $39.88$28.58A psychiatrist's travels through the history of mental illness - Who is 'mad'? Who is not? And who decides? In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines 'madness' in history and how we have responded to it... -
Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire by Mel Y. Chen
RRP: $41.98$36.83In Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia to show how mutual entanglements of race and disability take... -
They Have No Idea: Love and Desperation in Mothering a Child with Severe Autism and Epilepsy by Barbara Morrisey 9781039149557
RRP: $30.43$21.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039149557Author Barbara MorriseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Re-Thinking Autism: Diagnosis, Identity and Equality by Sami Timimi
RRP: $52.48$50.78Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century.Arguing... -
Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History, 1200–1900 by Patrick McDonagh
RRP: $52.50$45.76This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle... -
Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education by Nicole Brown
RRP: $52.50$45.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787354982Author Nicole BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 410g -
Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability: Good Practice for Assessing and Working with Adults - Including Autism Spectrum Disorders and Borderline Learning Disability by Penny Morgan
RRP: $69.28$66.95Child Protection and Parents with a Learning Disability provides the practical knowledge that professionals need in order to understand common intellectual disabilities and how they might affect parenting capability. It presents clear guidance on how to... -
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability by Jasbir K. Puar
RRP: $46.18$40.30In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept... -
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare 9780822362876
RRP: $41.98$35.01In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure-the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some... -
Risk Assessment in People With Learning Disabilities by Carol Sellars 9780470974858
RRP: $73.40$64.74Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities, Second Edition reflects legislative updates made over the past decade while continuing to demystify the process of assessing risk for people with intellectual impairment (previously called 'learning... -
Crip Negativity by J. Logan Smilges 9781517915582
RRP: $18.90$16.76Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as activists and politicians had... -
My Cousin Has Tourettes Alex Winstanley 9781913230470
RRP: $16.78$10.98This picture book aims to raise awareness of the impact that tics and Tourettes can have on an individual and their family in a child-friendly and supportive way. It is aimed at 4-11 year olds and has been inspired and informed by people with lived...