Disability category: 614 books
Solitary Courage
Mona Winberg and the Triumph over Disability
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Solitary Courage is the story of a mother’s tough-love determination, her severely disabled daughter’s astonishing triumphs, and a documentary record of the political battles, organizational conflicts, and human struggles that citizens with disabilities face and fight every day of their lives.
Mona...
Career Development, Employment, and Disability in Rehabilitation
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
This text provides, from a rehabilitation perspective, comprehensive coverage of the dominant theories and techniques related to the occupational development, vocational behavior, and the organizational factors that impact the career development and employment of individuals with disabilities. It...
The Common Sense Guide to Your Child's Special Needs
When to Worry, When to Wait, What to Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
What does it mean when a child is having difficulty with developmental milestones like walking, talking, and learning to read and write? What are the signs that a disability might be present, and what next steps can parents take to help their child?
Pediatrician Louis Pellegrino gives you clear...
Disabled Justice?
Access to Justice and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Disability offers a new lens through which to view the effectiveness of access to justice, and the inclusiveness of the justice system as a whole. This book analyses the experience of people with disabilities through the entire justice system, from making a complaint, to investigation, and through...
When is Separate Unequal?
A Disability Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2008
This book does not start from the premise that separate is inherently unequal. Writing from an 'anti-subordination perspective', Professor Colker provides a framework for the courts and society to consider what programs or policies are most likely to lead to substantive equality for individuals with...
Educational Achievement and Psychosocial Transition in Visually Impaired Adolescents
Studies from India
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This book provides a fresh approach to studies on adolescents with visual impairment. It threads through the three elements of disability (visual impairment), psychosocial development of adolescents, and their educational achievement. It highlights how these concepts traverse across and cast an irrefutable...
by Jessica L. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates, the freak show model into a “new American freak show.” It investigates how new freak...
Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness
Myths Behind the Presumption of Guilt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who would commit such a thoughtless act of violence? What in their backgrounds could make them so inhumane, cruel, and evil? Often, people assume immediately that the perpetrator...
Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability
Getting & Keeping Your Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Reading this book can mean the difference between an approval and denial of disability benefits.
by Sonali Shah
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005
Disabled people can be seen pejoratively as a homogenous group that are typically "weak" and "needy" and thus unable to undertake the rigours of professional care work. Shah also notes that disabled people are often wrongly assumed to have a high level of absences from work and...
Disabled Childhoods
Monitoring Differences and Emerging Identities
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
A crucial contemporary dynamic around children and young people in the Global North is the multiple ways that have emerged to monitor their development, behaviour and character. In particular disabled children or children with unusual developmental patterns can find themselves surrounded by multiple...
Righting Educational Wrongs
Disability Studies in Law and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Righting Educational Wrongs brings together the work of scholars from the fields of disability studies in education and law to examine contemporary struggles around inclusion and access to education. Specifically, contributors examine disability related policies and practices as they contribute to or undermine educational access for individuals with disabilities.
by Linda Barrington, Susanne Marie Bruyère
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores issues facing people with disabilities in employment and the work environment. It is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which incorporates links from varied fields making up Disability Studies as volumes...
by Kevin Timpe
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Disability and Inclusive Communities* *intends to help readers learn how to build communities that fully include people with disabilities. Often our social practices unintentionally exclude those with disabilities by making it difficult for them to fully participate in the community. These practices...