Disability category: 614 books
by Lisa Trentin
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
The subject of deformity and disability in the ancient Greco-Roman world has experienced a surge in scholarship over the past two decades. Recognizing a vast, but relatively un(der)explored, corpus of evidence, scholars have sought to integrate the deformed and disabled body back into our understanding...
by Angela Irick
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Ashley goes to school for the first time and the outgoing little girl is very nervous to meet her classmates. She is unsure of how the other students will treat her due to her disability, Cerebral Palsy. After a brief introduction, Ashley, becomes herself and interacts with her classmates by playing...
A Birth That Changed a Nation
A New Model of Care and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
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A novel model of care—integrating education, treatment and social and emotional development—that addresses the issues of people with disability
This research examines a new holistic approach of care for persons with cerebral palsy and their...
Going Stealth
Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
In Going Stealth Toby Beauchamp demonstrates how the enforcement of gender conformity is linked to state surveillance practices that identify threats based on racial, gender, national, and ableist categories of difference. Positioning surveillance as central to our understanding of transgender politics,...
Made to Hear
Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter’s school is plummeting: “The majority of parents want their kids to talk.” Some parents, however, feel very differently, because “curing” deafness with cochlear implants...
Working with Disabled People in Policy and Practice
A social model
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
How has interagency working impacted on the support that disabled people and their families receive? Can partnership working pave the way for more personalized, mainstream services?
Renowned authors Sally French and John Swain provide a critical review of the contemporary health and social...
Dr. Nils Jent
Ein Leben am Limit
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Nils Jent (49) überlebte mit achtzehn Jahren einen Motorradunfall. Als er aus dem Koma erwachte, konnte er sich nicht bewegen, war blind geworden und hatte seine Sprechfähigkeit verloren. Schritt für Schritt kämpfte er sich ins Leben zurück. Trotz seiner Behinderung lernte er nicht nur weitgehend...
Out of Sight
A Story of Progressive Tunnel Vision
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This is an account of my journey into blindness over six decades from a progressive eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa (also known as tunnel vision). Part One focuses on the many challenges which I faced and Part Two is presented in separate chapter subjects each sharing my experiences with...
A Nearly Normal Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In the summer of 1953 the author was a carefree, athletic boy of fourteen. But after he collapsed during a school dance one night, he was suddenly bedridden, drifting in & out of consciousness, as his body disintegrated into a shadow of its former self. He had been stricken with spinal polio....
by Oscar De Pellegrin, Giovanni Malagò
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Oscar De Pellegrin è un uomo che lascia il segno. E che fa centro. Nonostante le avversità della vita. O forse proprio per la spinta innata che prova nel superarle. Avviato a una vita ordinaria e probabilmente felice, sopravvive a un grave incidente sul lavoro ma perde l’uso delle gambe. Si rimbocca...
Far From the Tree
Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
From the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find...
Life, Animated
A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism | Now an Award-Winning Motion Picture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Now an Award-Winning Motion Picture. What if you were trapped in a Disney movie? In all of them, actually - from Dumbo to Peter Pan to The Lion King -- and had to learn about life and love mostly from what could be gleaned from animated characters, dancing across a screen of color? Asking this question...
by Lisa C. Ockun
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Beautiful Eyes is a story that takes place in the early 1960s in an apartment complex in Bellerose, Queens, New York. Two next door neighbors, twelve year old Dougie, a boy with a genetic condition called Down Syndrome, and eight year old Lucy become best friends and spend an entire summer together....
Pauvreté invalidante et Citoyenneté habilitante
Un projet du Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Le projet Pauvreté invalidante, citoyenneté habilitante est un projet de recherche quinquennal
(2008-2014) des Alliances de recherche des universités-communautés (ARUC), financé par le
CRSH et dirigé par le Conseil des Canadiens avec déficiences...