People with Disabilities

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Part and parcel to the civil rights movements of the past thirty years has been a sustained, coordinated effort among disabled Americans to secure equal rights and equal access to that of non-disabled people. Beyond merely providing a history of 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) 254g

Physical structure, economic expectation or social relationship norms developed within various cultures can either restrict or support the participation of individuals with disabilities in society. The influence of environmental factors can vary...

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...

What does it mean to live a good life? Why has it proved so difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to live one? What happens when we make a good life the centre of our consideration of people with intellectual disabilities? These questions...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803824642Author Matthew BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Emerald Publishing LimitedPublisher Emerald Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 152g

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...

Disability can be either an ascribed status or an achieved status and its combination with other statuses will affect the person's social experiences. The term intersectionality has been used most often to discuss the ways in which the dual and...

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...

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...

The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in...

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 9781503301269Author U S Department of LaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781718017269Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 54g

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 Ph D Judith Anne DentFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 445g

Many people think that profound disability presents us with a real problem, often because it seems difficult to connect with someone who does not seem to think or act like us. Positioning profound disability in this way immediately sets up a ‘them’ and...

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 obsessive drive to slash public spending whilst scapegoating the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798551198468Author Ridge Houston MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 140g

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 9781725507180Author Mary SettleFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Disability Politics and Theory, a historical exploration of the concept of disability, covers the late nineteenth century to the present, introducing the main models of disability theory and politics: eugenics, medicalization, rehabilitation, charity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781507843321Author Spokes AblemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782957226818Author FreaksFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Marina CarlosPublisher Marina CarlosWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781708582852Author True GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 91g

Part of the How to Help series of books exploring issues commonly faced by children and young people at home and in school, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) offers a complete introduction to this complex and often confusing topic. A lack of clarity can...

Winner of the Christopher Award: This bestseller tells the inspirational true story of a girl with cerebral palsy and the mother who wouldn't give up on her. In 1940, when Karen Killilea was born three months premature and developed cerebral palsy,...

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 9798678085702Author Thane PullanFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957363257Author Eliza HullFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe Us