Disability category: 614 books
by Ryan Knighton
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black comedy, Knighton tells the...
The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement
Through an Anthropological Lens
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?
Like many other contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the transition from pastime to spectacle, and the profile of athletes with disabilities has been increased as a result. This book reviews the current...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This is the first fundamental text to focus specifically on forensic vocational rehabilitation, a field that is forecast to grow rapidly. Forensic vocational rehabilitation consultants evaluate the vocational and rehabilitation needs of individuals in an array of legal settings such as civil litigation,...
The Disarticulate
Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language is integral to our
social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?
The mentally disabled, “wild” children, people with autism and other
neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial
intelligences, have all engaged with language...
Unruly Bodies
Life Writing by Women with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
The first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, Unruly Bodies examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity.
Combining the analyses of disability and feminist theories, Susannah...
Families in Rehabilitation Counseling
A Community-Based Rehabilitation Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Presents an innovative family-based approach to rehabilitation counseling that can be put to use immediately!
While the family has traditionally been a secondary consideration in rehabilitation, this graduate text presents an innovative approach to rehabilitation counseling that focuses on...
Disabled people, work and welfare
Is employment really the answer?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This is the first book to challenge the concept of paid work for disabled people as a means to ‘independence’ and ‘self determination’. Recent attempts in many countries to increase the employment rates of disabled people have actually led to an erosion of financial support for many workless...
Between Myself and Them
Stories Of Life With Disability
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Adults in their 20s share their real experiences living with disability. This collection of first-person narratives and dialogues is grouped into sections pertaining to different aspects of the writers’ lives, including education and work, family and relationships, health and wellness, self-image...
Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship
A project of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship, a five year (2008 – 2014) SSHRC funded Community
University Research Alliance (CURA) project, has been led by the Council of Canadians with
Disabilities (CCD), with Professor Michael J. Prince and Yvonne Peters as the Co-Principal
Researchers....
by Michael Oliver, Bob Sapey, Pam Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Having gone through 30 years of development, the new edition of this highly-regarded classic is the most trusted companion for understanding and promoting the potential for social work with disabled people. It offers readers a clear introduction to the core issues of disability alongside discussion and...
Bodies of Modernism
Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Bodies of Modernism brings a new and exciting analytical lens to modernist literature, that of critical disability studies. The book offers new readings of canonical and noncanonical writers from both sides of the Atlantic including Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth...
Disabled People and the Right to Life
The Protection and Violation of Disabled People’s Most Basic Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book.
'Human rights' has increasingly come to be seen as a significant framework, both to aid understanding of the experiences of those who face oppression, and to underpin social, legal and political measures to counter...
Genetic Discrimination
Transatlantic Perspectives on the Case for a European Level Legal Response
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
As genetic technologies advance, genetic testing may well offer the prospect of detecting the onset of future disabilities. Some research also forwards that certain behavioural profiles may have a strong genetic basis, such as the determination to succeed, or the propensity for risk-taking. As this...
Already Doing It
Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Why is the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities often deemed “risky” or “inappropriate” by teachers, parents, support staff, medical professionals, judges, and the media? Should sexual citizenship depend on IQ? Confronting such questions head-on, Already Doing It exposes the “sexual...