People with Disabilities

The term deaf often sparks heated debates about authority and authenticity. The concept of Deaf identity and affiliation with the DEAF-WORLD are constantly negotiated social constructions that rely heavily on the use of American Sign Language. However,...

In this volume, 250 full-color photographs capture Deaf Way II, the international celebration of 9,000 deaf people that took place July, 2002, in Washington, D.C.Book InformationISBN 9781563682742Author H. GoodsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint...

We are all equal. We are all different. We are all citizens. Being a citizen means making your own choices about how to live life to the fullest. This book helps you ask the right questions so you can find the answers that are right for your life. It...

This book explores multiple metanarratives of disability to introduce and investigate the critical concept of assumed authority and the normative social order from which it derives. The book comprises fifteen chapters developed across three parts...

Employing the methodology successfully used to explore other social movements in America, this meticulous study examines the rhetorical foundation that motivated Deaf people to work for social change during the past two centuries. In clear, concise...

Thirty-seven years ago, Rebecca Willman Gernon vowed to show the world the struggles and joys of raising and educating a deaf child. "Amy Signs" is the fulfillment of that promise. Rebecca Willman Gernon's firsthand account is dramatically...

In Deaf People Around the World: Educational and Social Perspectives, the leading researchers in 30 nations describe the shared developmental, social, and educational issues facing deaf people filtered through the prism of unique national, regional,...

This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity and their intersection with general disabilities activism, alliances, boundaries, and overlaps.Book InformationISBN 9781563684647Author...

DisAppearing offers a relational orientation to disability studies. From encounters with disability and disabled people in educational settings from elementary school to university, in novels and other texts, in hospitals and policing, in dance, on the...

The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book's contributors offer new theorizations of...

Now that curb cuts, braille elevator buttons, and closed caption television are commonplace, many people assume that disabled people are now full participants in American society. This book tells a rather different story. It tells how America's disabled...

Blindness, or vision loss, is a major medical concern that has also drawn the attention of artists, writers, musicians, mythologists, filmmakers, religions, philosophers and others. Covering everything from pop culture to high culture, this text is an...

Disability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from...

In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon...

When ethnomethodologist Albert Robillard began to suffer the symptoms of motor-neuron disease, he realized he was a living laboratory for revealing the countless taken-for-granted methods people use to produce being together. Meaning of a Disability is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871544575Author Denis P. HoganFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage Foundation

Human variation has always existed, though it has been conceived of and responded to variably. Beholding Disability in Renaissance England interprets sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature to explore the fraught distinctiveness of human bodyminds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926708171Author Diane DriedgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint 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 9780472038497Author Jina B. KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

Why is the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities often deemed "risky" or "inappropriate" by teachers, parents, support staff, medical professionals, judges, and the media? Should sexual citizenship depend on IQ? Confronting such questions...

Uses an integrated rehabilitation perspective to address career, vocational behavior, employment, and disability related theory and research.This highly regarded resource is the only book in rehabilitation counseling to provide comprehensive coverage of...

The book will appeal to scholars and activists in the interdisciplinary field of disability studies and will be of interest to audiences in fine arts, communications, gender studies, policy studies, sociology, community health, and social work.Book...

Designing Disability traces the emergence of an idea and an ideal - physical access for the disabled - through the evolution of the iconic International Symbol of Access (ISA). The book draws on design history, material culture and recent critical...

With increasing numbers of students with invisible disabilities attending college and university, faculty and staff find themselves faced with new challenges. This practical handbook provides lecturers, tutors, disability services, and administrative...

Meet Nikolai - a man with Parkinson's disease. Nikolai invites readers to learn about Parkinson's from his perspective, helping them to understand how Parkinson's affects his daily life and why some tasks can be especially challenging for him. He also...

Defining the role of a job coach, this book sets out EU-wide training standards for helping people with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful employment.The book includes the perspectives of both people with disabilities and their job coaches,...

If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in...

A comprehensive assessment of the field of Disability Studies that presents beyond the medical to dig into the meaning From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852390Author Bethany Mckinne FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 314gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 154mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922182098Author Michael MagazanikFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text PublishingWeight(grams) 456g

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse cultural representations and deployments of disability as they...

Although scholars in the environmental humanities have been exploring the dichotomy between "wild" and "built" environments for several years, few have focused on the field of disability studies, a discipline that enlists the contingency between...

This 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.It...

This is the story, in words and pictures, of Blind Veterans UK, an organization that was founded 100 years ago by Sir Arthur Pearson, who was himself blind, during the First World War, in order to bring hope and practical help to British and Allied...

With contributions from distinguished authors in 14 countries across 5 continents, this book provides a unique transnational perspective on intellectual disability in the twentieth century. Each chapter outlines different policies and practices, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904082903Author Karen DoddFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint British Institute of Learning DisabilitiesPublisher British Institute of Learning...

Exploring contemporary theory and practice surrounding loss and bereavement for people with intellectual disabilities (ID), this book brings together international contributors with a range of academic, professional and personal experience.This...

Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as sex was in the Victorian world, the ubiquitous unspoken topic in today's culture. The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902519210Author Lindsay BrighamFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint British Institute of Learning DisabilitiesPublisher British Institute of Learning...

While many deaf organizations around the world have adopted an ethno-linguistic framing of deafness, the meanings and consequences of this perspective vary across cultural contexts, and relatively little scholarship exists that explores this framework...