Disability category: 614 books
Sexuality and Relationships in the Lives of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Standing in My Shoes
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Drawing extensively on personal experiences, this important volume looks at sexuality and relationships in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, painting a genuine picture of the range of sexualities and relationships people want.
Honest and reflective, it shows how sexuality...
Dispossessed
Stories from India's Margins
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
In 2005, starving members of the Bhuiya clan in one of Bihar’s poorest villages dug up a long-buried dead goat, cooked and ate it. Sixteen people died within days, twelve of them children.
Bengali-speaking Muslims who had moved to Rajasthan from West Bengal in the 1970s and ’80s were summarily...
Song Without Words
Discovering My Deafness Halfway through Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Much has been written about the profoundly deaf, but the lives of the nearly 30 million partially deaf people in the United States today remain hidden. Song without Words tells the astonishing story of a man who, at the age of thirty-four, discovered that he had been deaf since childhood, yet somehow...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology from...
by John Flavel
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013
A TOKEN FOR MOURNERS. OR,
The advice of Christ to a distressed mother, bewailing the death of her dear and only son ; wherein the boundaries of sorrow are duly fixed, excesses restrained, the com- mon pleas answered, and divers rules for the support of god's afflicted ones .....
by Raymond Luczak
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2017
For over a decade, Raymond Luczak, author of Silence Is a Four-Letter Word: On Art & Deafness, has been interviewing Deaf and hard of hearing artists and their allies about their creative and arts accessibility work. This volume features over 70 people sharing what it means to be an artist who happens...
Summary & Study Guide - NeuroTribes
The Legacy of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Comprehensive View of Autism Past and Present
The must-read summary of "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity" by Steve Silberman.
In NeuroTribes, award-winning science journalist Steve Silberman changes the societal conversation about autism with...
Inside Out
The Social Meaning of Mental Retardation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
‘We have to assume that the mind is working no matter what it looks like on the outside. We can’t just judge by appearance…If you take away the label they are human beings.’ Ed Murphy
What does it mean to be ‘mentally retarded’? Professors Bogdan and Taylor have interviewed two...
by Saleem
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
This novel treats the two themes of incurable diseases and euthanasia at various levels to bring into focus a web of dense arguments legal and medical woven together that never tire the readers in their attempts to grapple with issues of human suffering, disease and death and its over-arching subject...
Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities
A Vision for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities...
The Cookbook for Children with Special Needs
Learning a Life Skill with Fun, Tasty, Healthy Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Learning to cook not only equips children with a valuable life skill, but will help boost self-esteem in other areas of their lives. The book starts with a basic illustrated guide to where food comes from, the different food groups, how to create our own diet and why cooking is a great skill to master....
Personalisation in Practice
Supporting Young People with Disabilities through the Transition to Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This book demonstrates very clearly how the personalisation of support and services works in practice. The authors describe how Jennie, a young person with autism and learning difficulties, was supported through the transition from school to living independently using simple, evidence-based person-centred...
Can I tell you about Parkinson's Disease?
A guide for family, friends and carers
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Meet Nikolai - a man with Parkinson's disease. Nikolai invites readers to learn about Parkinson's from his perspective, helping them to understand how Parkinson's affects his daily life and why some tasks can be especially challenging for him. He also gives advice on how to help someone with Parkinson's...
by Merlin Sprague
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
For several years, Merlin Sprague drove a small passenger bus for a senior center. It was an unusual occupation (but then, what occupation isn’t unusual in its own way).In Stories From The Bus Merlin tells you about his job, the people with whom he worked, his passengers and their their lives....