Disability category: 614 books
Medical Aspects of Disability, Fourth Edition
A Handbook for the Rehabilitation Professional
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
"Like its predecessor, the book remains one of the best sources of rehabilitation practice preparation for students and the most enlightened guide for rehabilitation professionals." --Nan Zhang Hampton, PhD, CRC Department of Counseling and School PsychologyUniversity of Massachusetts
Medical...
Disability, Gender and Violence over the Life Course
Global Perspectives and Human Rights Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
This is the first book to explore the interplay of disability, gender and violence over the life course from researcher, practitioner and survivor perspectives. It gives due weight to the accounts of disabled children and adults who have survived institutional or individual violence, evidencing barriers...
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging
Queer Temporalities of the Phallus
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to undermine one's sense of self. She challenges common conceptions that equate the decline of bodily potential...
Disability and Justice
The Capabilities Approach in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Disability & Justice: The Capabilities Approach in Practice examines the capabilities approach and how, as a matter of justice, the experience of disability is accounted for. It suggests that the capabilities approach is first, unable to properly diagnose both those who are in need as well as...
The Matter of Disability
Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book’s contributors offer new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the theoretical, practical and legal dimensions of equality for persons with disabilities. The issues covered include the central problem of defining disability and impairment; the dilemma of same versus different treatment; the balance between...
Disabled People and Economic Needs in the Developing World
A Political Perspective from Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book explores the economic situation of disabled people in developing countries focusing on rehabilitation and uses particpatory framework to community development. Although dealing specifically with a case study from Jordan, this needs assessment study provides comparisons with other developing...
by Professor Tamar Heller, Sarah K. Parker Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores issues involving disability through the life courses, and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With...
Absent Citizens
Disability Politics and Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic...
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability
Talking Normal
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is wide-ranging both in terms of national literatures...
A Guide to Special Education Advocacy
What Parents, Clinicians and Advocates Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Disability law can be complex and intimidating, so how can concerned parents use it to ensure their child with a disability receives the appropriate education they are legally entitled to? A Guide to Special Education Advocacy gives strategies for advocating for better provision of special education...
Narrative Prosthesis
Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting...
Understanding Psychosocial Adjustment to Chronic Illness and Disability
A Handbook for Evidence-Based Practitioners in Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Rehabilitation practitioners face the difficult task of helping clients adjust to chronic illness or disability. This can be a long and trying process for both practitioner and client. With this handbook, however, practitioners and students can gain a wealth of insight into the critical issues clients...
Rethinking Disability
Bodies, Senses, and Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This text is a critical and empirically-based introduction to disability studies. It offers a comprehensive, book-length analysis of disability through the lens of Science and Technology Studies (STS), and presents a practice-oriented discussion of how bodies, senses and things are linked in everyday...