People with Disabilities

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...

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...

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 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

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 9781605206882Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 113g

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 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...

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...

In Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews and survey responses, Price demonstrates that...

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) 127g

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

Leave it to a dog to put the “human” back in “humanities” In September 2020, Rod Michalko wrote to friend and colleague Dan Goodley, congratulating him on the release of his latest book, Disability and Other Human Questions. Joking that his late guide...

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...

Even as kindness toward individuals with intellectual disabilities has increased, encountering an individual and his or her family whose lives revolve around the daily challenges that come with them is atypical, or is experienced and narrated as such,...

Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream is a collaborative effort to tell the life story of Jon A. Feucht, a man who was born with a form of cerebral palsy that left him reliant on a wheelchair for mobility, with limited use of his...

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 historical volume tracks the changes in education and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics covered include the attitudes toward the deaf in Europe...

Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream is a collaborative effort to tell the life story of Jon A. Feucht, a man who was born with a form of cerebral palsy that left him reliant on a wheelchair for mobility, with limited use of his...

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...

As a mainstay of modern life, the media industry disseminates information about disability on a global scale. However, media outlets do not always contribute accurate and positive depictions of disability in print and on the screen. Since previous...