People with Disabilities

Examining representations of mental difference, this collection focuses on the ways that adaptations (including remakes, reboots, and other examples of remixed narratives) can shape and shift the social contexts and narratives we use to define mental...

Experiencing Disability Stigma in Ghana: Impact on Individuals and Caregivers explores the roots of disability stigma and discrimination in Ghana as well as the social and economic impact of discrimination on individuals with disabilities and their...

With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807059296Author Lennard J. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm *...

The first book to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages, Henri-Jacques Stiker's now classic A History of Disability traces the history of western cultural responses to disability, from ancient times to the present. The...

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...

Ambassadors of Social Progress examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international disability movement and shaped its content and its course. Maria Cristina Galmarini shows that the...

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...

Disability and the Posthuman is the first study to analyse cultural representations and deployments of disability as they interact with posthumanist theories of technology and embodiment. Working across a wide range of texts, many new to critical...

Now, Jack R. Gannon's original groundbreaking volume on Deaf history and culture is available once again. In Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America, Gannon brought together for the first time the story of the Deaf experience in America from a...

Originally published in 1971, this title describes a series of studies dealing with the upbringing of children in residential institutions. Most work has been carried out in institutions for children with learning disabilities, although units caring for...

First published in 1984, this book focuses on the support and reassurance needed by parents of children with handicaps. It provides a practical guide in relation to daily care and is equally as relevant to professionals, therapists, teachers, doctors and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563684647Author Susan BurchFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.

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...

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...

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...

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 9781954622005Author Harry G LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Gallaudet University PressPublisher Gallaudet University PressWeight(grams) 152g

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...

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...

Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller. Uses an integrated rehabilitation perspective to address career, vocational behavior, employment, and...

This book will help prepare the reader to work across disabilities by providing knowledge and training grounded within the ecological framework in four principal areas. The four principal areas reader will be trained in are: the societal environment and...

Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how radical and unconventional forms of activism, including art, are reshaping the rich and vibrant tradition of disability mobilization in Canada - and in the process, challenging perceptions of disability and the...

First published in 1986, this book reviews research on the role parents play in fostering the early development of children with mental handicaps. Professionals and parents must work together to give such children the chance of living as ordinary lives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375704079Author Oliver SacksFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739608606Author Sarah FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint MartelloPublisher MartelloDimensions(mm) 195mm * 129mm * 15mm

Fleeing from Nazi Europe in the late 1930s, Austrian-born Karl Koenig and his colleagues founded the first Camphill community, for children with special needs, outside Aberdeen in the north of Scotland. The seven essays by Koenig in this book explain the...

In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before...

The atonement-where God in Jesus Christ addresses sin and the whole of the human predicament-lies at the heart of the Christian faith and life. Its saving power is for all people, and yet a deep hesitancy has prevented meaningful discussion of the cross'...

A comprehensive and practical resource for all speech and language therapists and students, this book covers all aspects of working with this client group. Written by the author of the hugely successful "Talkabout", each section gives the reader a...

Learning through play is a well-established principle that underpins much educational practice, yet it is often overlooked in association with children with autistic spectrum disorders. This book considers the wide-ranging benefits of developing play and...

This second edition of Making an Entrance is a practical and thought-provoking introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non-disabled students, updated with expanded coverage, new and revised exercises, and chapters that cover post-pandemic and...

This co-authored text critically explores the key findings of the Living Life to the Fullest project - a project that has explored the lives, thoughts, hopes and aspirations of disabled young people living with life-limiting and life-threatening...

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

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 9780972118934Author Beth a Haller Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Advocado PressPublisher Advocado PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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...

Just Care is Akemi Nishida's thoughtful examination of care injustice and social justice enabled through care. The current neoliberal political economy has turned care into a business opportunity for the healthcare industrial complex and a mechanism of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898401Author M. Leona GodinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc