Disability category: 614 books
Educational Provision for Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Meeting Their Needs
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The range of educational options available to a child with Autism and Asperger syndrome is broad, but choosing the right path can often be a complex task for all involved. This book provides information and advice for professionals and parents making crucial decisions about meeting the needs of children...
Attachments to War
Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual development...
Forensic Mental Health
Framing Integrated Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions describes a criminal justice–mental health nexus that touches every population—juvenile and adult male and female offenders, probationers and parolees, the aging adult prison population, and victims of crime. In the United States today, the...
Outcasts and Angels
The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In it, they featured works from the 19th and 20th centuries by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and Eudora Welty. They also presented less-well-known deaf authors,...
Taking Care
Lessons from Mothers with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Taking Care, based on twenty-six interviews and other autobiographical narratives, challenges the negative stereotypes about mothers with disabilities. These women’s stories tell of their successes despite the barriers they encounter from the society in which they live. Covering issues in the mothering...
Deaf Heritage
A Narrative History of Deaf America
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Now, Jack R. Gannon’s original groundbreaking volume on Deaf history and culture is available once again. In Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America, Gannon brought together for the first time the story of the Deaf experience in America from a Deaf perspective. Recognizing the need to...
Deaf-Blind Reality
Living the Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Most stories about disabled people are written for the sake of being inspirational. These stories tend to focus on some achievement, such as sports or academics, but rarely do they give a true and complete view of the challenges individuals must deal with on a daily basis. For example: How does a...
by Nancy D. Price
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
When author Nancy D. Prices son Robert Kevin Price was born with a congenital cataract and was profoundly deaf and severely retarded, she and her husband, Bob, began a journey through unchartered waters, trying to find help for their second child, their first-born son, Robbie. In Truly Blessed, Price...
by Val Sterley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Holly is the story of a girl with locked-in syndrome denying her speech, she is also spastic and has limited control of her body. She is sent to various homes and institutions. Holly is abused, and the really frightening fact was that there could never be restitution. But she is in there, inside her...
by Jonathan Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Inspired by the author’s personal experience of sustaining acquired brain injury (ABI), this path-breaking book explores the (re)construction of identity after ABI. It offers a way of understanding ABI through a social scientific lens, promoting an understanding that is generated through close engagement...
Eunice Shriver
Special Olympics 1970-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
When the eldest Kennedy son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., died as a bomber pilot during World War II, his father founded the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation in his memory. It was Eunice Kennedy Shriver who set out to find a focus for the foundation. She and her husband, Sargent Shriver, traveled around the...
Pieces That Fit
A Mothers Journey Through Her Son's Puzzling Diagnosis of Asperger’S Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Pieces That Fit is a powerful story based on one womans struggle to raise an autistic child. Karens raw, emotional candor will move you throughout your reading experience. Karen began this journey during Autism Awareness month in April 2014, when she wrote a post a day for thirty days. She received...
The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Revised Edition
Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The first accessible guide to examine Sensory Processing Disorder, The Out-of-Sync Child touched the hearts and lives of thousands of families. Carol Stock Kranowitz continues her significant work with this companion volume, which presents more than one hundred playful activities specially designed...
Guardianship Reality
Who’S Looking out for America’S Abandoned, Abused, Neglected Children & Elderly?
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
WHOS LOOKING OUT FOR AMERICA'S ABUSED & NEGLECTED CHILDREN & THE ELDERLY? The court orders Professional Guardians to make critical decisions; this pragmatic guide explains how to make those decisions. It guides the reader through the process of making bio-ethical healthcare, ethical social...