Disability category: 614 books
Disability and Social Media
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Social media is popularly seen as an important media for people with disability in terms of communication, exchange and activism. These sites potentially increase both employment and leisure opportunities for one of the most traditionally isolated groups in society. However, the offline inaccessible...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and...
Disability Policy in China
Child and family experiences
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Without access to a public social welfare system in parts of China, some families face invidious decisions about the lives of their children with disabilities. In other places, children with disabilities can now expect to participate in their families and communities with the same aspirations as other...
Restricted Access
Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
How reconsidering digital media and participatory cultures from the standpoint of disability allows for a full understanding of accessibility.
While digital media can offer many opportunities for civic and cultural participation, this technology is not equally easy for everyone to use. Hardware,...
Digital Disability
The Social Construction of Disability in New Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2002
Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications—such as the Internet, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting—have created a need for a more innovative understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Information technologies constitute a very important contribution to the integration of a population into its environment. Unfortunately, in most cases the development of new technologies does not consider the special needs of potentially disabled users. The Handbook of Research on Personal Autonomy...
by Chris Wise Tiedemann
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
"College Success for Students With Physical Disabilities" is a college planning guide for students with physical disabilities and chronic medical conditions. Students will learn about their rights under the laws governing education and disability, self-advocacy, choosing a college, how having...
by Jillian Weise
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
First printing: 3000 copies (trade paper).
Cyborg Detective is Jillian Weise’s third poetry collection. Her first book, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, was re-released in a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by the author in 2017. Her previous collection, The Book of Goodbyes (BOA,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
As technology becomes an increasingly vital aspect of modern social interaction, the field of disability informatics and web accessibility has made significant progress in consolidating theoretical approaches and exploring new application domains for those with motor and cognitive disabilities. Disability...
Tell Me the Number before Infinity
The Story of a Girl with a Quirky Mind, an Eccentric Family, and Oh Yes, a Disability
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
"Tell Me the Number before Infinity, The Story of a Girl with a Quirky Mind, an Eccentric Family, and Oh Yes, a Disability" is a memoir in 60 short chapters arranged chronologically by Becky Taylor, who was born with cerebral palsy, and by her mother, Dena Taylor. Dena writes of Becky's...
Curative Violence
Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism. Kim uses the concept of curative violence to question the representation of cure as a universal good and...
This Ability
An International Legal Analysis of Disability Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This Ability is Cotter's third book in a series dealing with discrimination law. Having looked at the theme of 'gender discrimination' in Gender Injustice and 'race discrimination' in Race Matters, this further installment takes a similar approach and structure to illustrate comparisons and contradictions...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. The right to access the same digital content at the same time and at the same cost as people without disabilities is implicit...
Defectives in the Land
Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the “undesirable immigrant.” Defectives in the Land, Douglas C. Baynton’s groundbreaking new look at immigration and disability,...