Disability category: 614 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
The Equality Act 2010 was an extremely significant reform of UK discrimination law, consolidating the existing complex 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...
by Silent.
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
dear reader,
this is my mind.. on disability.
i always keep a notepad handy, as external brain dump.
if i don't write it down it'll roll around, endlessly. or i forget it, immediately.
this collection is comprised of thots which i did(n't) share elsewhere, and perhaps should(n't) have.
there...
Bodyminds Reimagined
(Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates...
Multiple Sclerosis
Your Legal Rights: Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
This extensively revised third edition continues to provide reliable basic information and possible solutions to the legal problems that often affect people with multiple sclerosis (MS).
In the past seven years, since the publication of the last edition, significant legislative changes have...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Disabled children’s lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development ‘norms’ and have provided the rationale for segregated or ‘special’ welfare...
After War
The Weight of Life at Walter Reed
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In After War Zoë H. Wool explores how the American soldiers most severely injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggle to build some kind of ordinary life while recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from grievous injuries like lost limbs and traumatic brain injury. Between 2007 and 2008,...
Reflections
The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and her hopes for the future. Through extensive research and scholarly detective work, authors Catherine Kudlick and...
by Elizabeth M. Anderson, Bernie Spain
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
First published in 1977, this book focuses on the disability of spina bifida in children. Children with the condition frequently suffer with severe physical handicaps such as lower limb paralysis and incontinence, as well as intellectual impairment. It can be difficult for the families of these multiply...
Rehabilitation Counseling and Emerging Disabilities
Medical, Psychosocial, and Vocational Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The first book to focus on non-traditional, emerging disabilities and their implications for rehabilitation practice
Emerging disabilities are disabling conditions that are either new to medical science, often medically debated, and lacking in known etiology; or those increasing in prevalence...
Come, Let Me Guide You
A Life Shared with a Guide Dog
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
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 the self, a book about facing life's challenges...
by Rewia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
The heartwarming story of a young woman with cerebral palsy and her struggle to get out of the intellectually disabled system into which she had been misguidedly placed. “Writing this book has been a long-term goal for Rewia and we fully support her in her efforts.” - CCS Disability Action ...
Dignity & Inclusion
Making it work for children with behaviour that challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
This publication will help all service providers to ensure that disabled children and young people with additional support needs can access services and lead a life as part of their local community, focusing on children who have behaviour that challenges as a result of either a severe learning disability...
Promoting Positive Transition Outcomes
Effective Planning for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Many students struggle with the transition from high school to the next stage of their lives. For deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students, that struggle can be intensified by barriers and discriminatory attitudes they face in their communities, schools, and workplaces. Though much progress has been...
by Michele Ilana Friedner
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Although it is commonly believed that deafness and disability limits a person in a variety of ways, Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India describes the two as a source of value in postcolonial India. Michele Friedner argues that the experiences of deaf people offer an important portrayal of contemporary...