Disability category: 614 books
Disability Politics and Care
The Challenge of Direct Funding
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
“We do not need care!” is a rallying cry for disability movements. It is informed by a recognition that a lack of choice over life decisions – from relationships and employment, to what to wear or eat – is a subtle yet pervasive form of violence endured by many people with disabilities as...
Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind
Medieval Constructions of a Disability
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
"Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind...
by David Peterson, PhD, CRC
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
"This represents the first textbook explicitly to join interpretation of the ICF with that of DSM-IV-TR in clinical cases. In fact, Professor Petersonís book reads as though it were a helpful crosswalk between the Classification and the DSM, which is innovative."--ICF Newsletter
"Peterson...
Life as Jamie Knows It
An Exceptional Child Grows Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The story of Jamie Bérubé’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American life
Published in 1996, Life as We Know It introduced Jamie Bérubé to the world as a sweet, bright, gregarious little boy who loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. When he is asked in his...
by Robin Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Community care is a concept which has shaped government policy, provision and practice for people with an intellectual disability for four decades. Standing in contrast to institutional care, which held sway for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, community care is often presented in simplistic...
by Bodil Ravneberg, Sylvia Söderström
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The provision of assistive technology is an important individual and collective service of the welfare state. The state plays a significant role towards linking users and products, and the matching of devices and users is both a science and an art. However, many people feel it is stigmatising to use...
Diagnosing Folklore
Perspectives on Disability, Health, and Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Diagnosing Folklore provides an inclusive forum for an expansive conversation on the sensitive, raw, and powerful processes that shape and imbue meaning in the lives of individuals and communities beleaguered by medical stigmatization, conflicting public perceptions, and contextual constraints. This...
Disability and the welfare state in Britain
Changes in perception and policy 1948–79
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Created during and after the Second World War, the British Welfare State seemed to promise welfare for all, but, in its original form, excluded millions of disabled people. This book examines attempts in the subsequent three decades to reverse this exclusion. It is the first to contextualise disability...
What Do You Use To Help Your Body?
Maggie Explores the World of Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Who are the people with disabilities in your neighborhood? Maggie and Momma love going for walks. During every outing, Maggie learns about something new. Today's no different! Momma has arranged for Maggie to meet lots of people in her neighborhood. They all have different jobs. They all come from...
Disability and Sexuality in Zimbabwe
Voices from the Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Disabled women represent one of the most marginalised minority groups in the world, hence they are largely silent while their sexuality is ignored, suppressed, forbidden and buried underneath the carpet. Until recently, most of the Global Northern published literature on the subject of the sexuality...
by Matthew Famiglietti
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Applying for Social Security disability benefits can be an overwhelming experience. For those who have never been exposed to the system, it can be confusing and discouraging, exactly what you don’t need when you are getting used to being disabled, or having a child or spouse who is disabled. If...
Hearing Impairment and Hearing Disability
Towards a Paradigm Change in Hearing Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The purpose of this book is to challenge people (service providers, people with a hearing disability and those who advocate for them) to reconsider the way western society thinks about hearing disability and the way it seeks to 'include them’. It highlights the concern that the design of hearing...
The Disability Pendulum
The First Decade of the Americans With Disabilities Act
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Signed into law in July 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became effective two years later, and court decisions about the law began to multiply in the middle of the decade. In The Disability Pendulum, Ruth Colker presents the first legislative history of the enactment of the ADA in Congress...
Exile and Pride
Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness...