Disability category: 614 books
by Jillian Weise
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Key Selling Points
There is an important and renewed focus on the issues of able-bodied privilege, disabled persons' accessibility in creative and sexual spaces/portrayals, etc and Weise's is a singular artistic voice within the conversation
With so many "Nasty Women" and "Nevertheless,...
by Louis Shalako
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This is the one they don't want you to read. This has been suppressed on the government website. A submission to the Government of Canada on the subject of poverty reduction and housing. No one is better qualified to consult with this government than Louis Shalako, a client of ODSP, (the Ontario Disability...
Living the Edges
A Disabled Women's Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social attitudes and physical and systemic inaccessibility....
Worlds of Autism
Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Since first being identified as a distinct psychiatric disorder in 1943, autism has been steeped in contestation and controversy. Present-day skirmishes over the potential causes of autism, how or even if it should be treated, and the place of Asperger’s syndrome on the autism spectrum are the subjects...
The Other Senses
An Inspiring True Story of a Visually Impaired
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Preeti was barely six years old when doctors diagnosed her deteriorating vision as a condition due to optic atrophy. Those were difficult days but with the support and encouragement of her parents she learnt to get the best out of her disability. She looked for possibilities, focused on every positive...
Community Care Practice and the Law
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
This fourth edition of Community Care Practice and the Law has been fully updated to reflect the rapid and continuing legal, policy and practice changes affecting community care.
It provides comprehensive and jargon-free explanations of community care legislation, as well as other areas of...
Unfinished Business
Social Policy for Social Care Students in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by consistent government cutbacks. It examines a wide range of issues important to social care students, such...
Disabling Policies?
A Comparative Approach to Education Policy and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
First published in 1989, this book is about integrating or mainstreaming policies, looking specifically at how to improve circumstances for schoolchildren with disabilities or handicaps, and their teachers.
The author draws on her experiences, both within and outside the academic institution,...
Deaf Gain
Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Deaf people are usually regarded by the hearing world as having a lack, as missing a sense. Yet a definition of deaf people based on hearing loss obscures a wealth of ways in which societies have benefited from the significant contributions of deaf people. In this bold intervention into ongoing debates...
Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities Experiencing Loss and Bereavement
Theory and Compassionate Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
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 authoritative edited book looks at diverse experiences...
It's All Right Mum!
A mother's journey with muscular dystrophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A heartwarming story of courage, faith and family love in the life story of David Vincent a young New Zealander who suffered muscular dystrophy (Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - DMD) and whose 27-year life touched hundreds of people. "David displayed so many characteristics of great sportspeople: courage,...
California Workers' Comp
How to Take Charge When You're Injured on the Job
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2016
More than a million Californians a year suffer job-related injuries or illness. For many, receiving compensation can be a nightmare, since recent laws give employers and insurance companies far greater rights and employees fewer medical benefits.
California Workers' Comp shows how to handle...
The Unmaking of Man
Disability and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The Unmaking of Man is a series of four essays by Dr Simon Duffy exploring the lessons of the Holocaust for people with disabilities. Few people know that people with disabilities not only made up a large number of the victims of the Holocaust but they were the first victims, marked out for destruction...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The Equality Act 2010 was an extremely significant reform of UK discrimination law, consolidating the existing mass of statutory provisions into one statute. The Act brought new rights against discrimination and imposed new duties on employers, service providers, and public authorities, and also introduced...